U.S.-Czech Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

INT 9817956罗伯茨美国-捷克的合作努力支持美国和捷克共和国在国家科学基金会本科生研究经验方案的基本框架内进行有限的学生交流。 美国组织者是Fred S.罗格斯大学离散数学和理论计算机科学中心（DIMACS）的Roberts说。 他的同行是布拉格查尔斯大学离散数学、理论计算机科学和应用中心（DIMATIA）的Jaroslav Nesetril。 计划中的REU本科生课程：1）具有组合学，逻辑和复杂性理论，计算几何和2）涉及美国和捷克教师导师谁监督初级参与者的指导学习和研究。 该奖项允许三个国际REU会议，一个在1999年，2000年和2001年期间每年夏天举行。 双方共同分担费用。罗伯茨、奈西曲和指定的教师项目协调员将共同管理一个基于DIMACS的国际REU项目，该项目可容纳5名美国学生，为期9周。 为了促进项目定义和研究启动，成对的导师和学生开始通过互联网通信之前，每个REU会议。在九周的前六周，捷克教师和两名捷克学生在罗格斯大学参加DIMACS的国内芸香项目。 接下来，五名美国学生谁已被选中参加这个国际“本科生研究经验”的竞争，去与DIMACS导师花三个星期在布拉格的DIMATIA主办的程序阶段。 在那里，美国的参与者与捷克的导师和学生同行一起从事预定的项目，并参加辅导和一个特殊的仲夏研讨会。 结果应该产生一些共同撰写的科学论文，适合科学会议的学生演讲，以及潜在的长期专业网络。美国的总体意图是-捷克本科生交流是为了增加一个国际层面的长期目标，为REU计划，鼓励在数学，科学和工程的职业选择。 成功将意味着这些初级参与者的未来职业生涯将通过接触国外的卓越研究和在日益全球化的研究企业中合作的早期经验而得到加强。这种国际研究经验为本科生提供，由两个卓越中心，通过使美国和中欧的专家能够联合收割机互补的人才和共享，实现了推进科学知识的计划目标在共同感兴趣和能力强的领域提供研究和教育资源。

INT 9817956RobertsThis U.S.-Czech cooperative effort supports a limited exchange of students from the United States and the Czech Republic within the basic context of the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (REU). The U.S. organizer is Fred S. Roberts of Rutgers University's Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS). His counterpart is Jaroslav Nesetril of Charles University's Center for Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Applications (DIMATIA) in Prague. The planned REU program for undergraduate students: 1) features combinatorics, logic and complexity theory, and computational geometry and 2) involves U.S. and Czech faculty mentors who oversee junior participant's directed study and research. This award permits three international REU sessions, one held each summer during 1999, 2000 and 2001. Both sides share costs.Collaboratively, Roberts, Nesetril, and appointed faculty program coordinators will manage a DIMACS-based international REU program that accommodates five U.S. students for a total of nine weeks. To facilitate project definition and research initiation, paired mentors and students begin communication via Internet prior to each REU session. During the first six of nine weeks, Czech faculty and two Czech students participate at the Rutgers site in DIMACS' domestic RUE program. Next, five U.S. students who have been selected competitively for this international "research experience for undergraduates," go with the DIMACS mentor to spend three weeks in Prague for the DIMATIA-hosted phase of the program. There the U.S. participants join Czech mentors and student counterparts to work on predetermined projects and attend tutorials as well as a special midsummer workshop. Results should produce a number of jointly authored scientific papers, student presentations suitable for scientific meetings, and potentially long-lasting professional networks. The overall intent of this U.S.-Czech undergraduate exchange is to add an international dimension to the standing objectives for REU programs which encourage career choices in math, science and engineering. Success will mean that the future careers of these junior participants are enhanced by exposure to research excellence abroad and early experience with collaboration in an increasingly global research enterprise.Such international research experience for undergraduates, anchored by two centers of excellence, fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Central Europe to combine complementary talents and share research and education resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence.