Project to Reconnect Two and Four Year College Faculty to the Mathematical Sciences Enterprise

该项目旨在“重新连接”数学科学企业的两年制和四年制大学教师，他们没有时间跟上研究的发展。这些研讨会让他们接触到离散数学和理论计算机科学的当前研究课题，这些课题与他们的教学相关，通过让他们参与一个研究中心，在那里进行了许多相关的研究。该项目旨在提高教师的能力，将他们的教室转变为连接现代数学和计算机科学应用的地方，并帮助他们制作反映当前研究的课堂材料。夏季会议和一系列为期两天的会议正在举行。夏季会议的范围是全国性的，针对的是有一定离散数学和理论计算机科学背景的两年制和四年制大学教师，会议将展示计算分子生物学、网络可视化、聚类和几何可见性等主题的最新研究成果，并将参与者分成写作小组。为期两天的会议是区域性的，针对的是之前几乎没有接触过离散数学和理论计算机科学的两年制大学教师，会议介绍了这些领域，与当前研究兴趣的主题有关，并要求参与者在两次为期两天的会议之间的六个月内撰写材料。在为期两天和两周的会议上，与会者都将使用他们编写的材料作为工具，将离散数学和理论计算机科学带入课堂。鼓励参与者通过编写和出版DIMACS本科模块系列，将其材料提供给更广泛的受众。＊

This project seeks to "reconnect" to the mathematical sciences enterprise two and four year college faculty who lack the time to keep up with research developments. The workshops expose them to current research topics in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science that are relevant to their teaching by involving them in a research center where much of the relevant research is being carried out. The project aims to enhance the ability of faculty to transform their classrooms into places that connect up to modern uses of mathematics and computer science and to help them produce classroom materials that reflect current research. Both summer conferences and a sequence of two-day conferences are taking place. The summer conferences, national in scope and directed at two and four-year college faculty with some prior exposure to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, present recent research results in topics such as computational molecular biology, network visualization, clustering, and visibility in geometry, and divide the participants into writing groups. The two-day conferences, regional in scope and directed at two year college faculty with little prior exposure to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, present an introduction to these fields, with connection to topics of current research interest, and also involve the participants in writing materials in a six month period between two two-day conferences. Participants in both the two-day and two-week conferences are expected to use the materials they have written as vehicles to bring discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science into their classrooms. Participants are encouraged to make their materials available to a broader audience through developing and publishing them in the DIMACS Undergraduate Module Series. *