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

该项目旨在“重新连接”数学科学企业的二年制和四年制大学教师谁缺乏时间跟上研究的发展。研讨会让他们接触到离散数学和理论计算机科学中与他们的教学相关的当前研究课题，让他们参与研究中心的大部分相关研究。该项目旨在提高教师的能力，将他们的教室改造成连接到数学和计算机科学的现代用途的地方，并帮助他们制作反映当前研究的课堂材料。正在举行夏季会议和一系列为期两天的会议。夏季会议，全国范围内，并针对两年制和四年制大学教师与一些以前接触离散数学和理论计算机科学，目前在计算分子生物学，网络可视化，聚类和几何可见性等主题的最新研究成果，并将参与者分为写作组。为期两天的会议，区域范围内，针对两年制大学教师，很少接触离散数学和理论计算机科学，介绍了这些领域，与当前研究兴趣的主题有关，并且还涉及参与者在两个为期两天的会议之间的六个月内编写材料。为期两天和两周的会议的参与者预计将使用他们编写的材料作为车辆，将离散数学和理论计算机科学带入他们的课堂。鼓励参与者通过在DIMACS本科模块系列中开发和发布他们的材料，使他们的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. *