Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges' Summer Mathematics Program

卡尔顿学院和圣奥拉夫学院的夏季数学课程

• 批准号: 9817967
• 负责人: Deanna Haunsperger
• 金额: $ 27.6万
• 依托单位: Carleton College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-02-01 至 2002-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9817967&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Carleton; St.; Olaf; Colleges; Summer

Mathematics faculty from Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges plan to continue their intensive four-week summer mathematics program for sixteen talented undergraduate women. The program will be staffed by mathematicians who are active professionals and outstanding teachers. The students will immerse themselves in mathematics, living and working in a supportive community of women scholars (undergraduates, graduates, and post-graduates) who are passionate about learning and doing mathematics. The program's intent is threefold: to excite these young women about mathematics and mathematical careers, to provide them with the tools they will need to succeed in a mathematical career, and to connect them to a network of fellow female mathematicians. The past Carleton/St. Olaf Summer Mathematics Programs, as measured by the participants' post-program evaluations, were successful in achieving all of these goals.Students will attend two courses which meet on weekday mornings and are led by female instructors and teaching assistants. In each of the classes, the students will be introduced to fields of mathematics beyond calculus that students usually do not have the opportunity to study in a standard undergraduate mathematics program. Topics for these courses in the past have included algebraic coding theory, graph theory, low-dimensional dynamical systems, and functional analysis. Through these courses, and the homework assigned in them, the students will have the opportunity to improve their skills in conjecture and proof and written and oral presentation. Students will not receive course credit for, or grades in, these courses, but rather written evaluations of their performance and accomplishments from the instructors. Recreational problem solving, discussions on topics pertaining to the students' continued scholarship (succeeding as a math major, career options, choosing and surviving a graduate program, and being a woman scientist), and colloquia on exciting areas of mathematics will complete their experience.

卡尔顿和圣奥拉夫学院的数学教师计划继续为16名有才华的本科女生提供为期四周的暑期数学课程。该计划将由数学家谁是活跃的专业人士和优秀的教师。 学生们将沉浸在数学，生活和工作在一个支持性的社区的女学者（本科生，研究生和研究生）谁是热衷于学习和做数学。 该计划的意图有三个方面：激发这些年轻女性对数学和数学职业的兴趣，为她们提供在数学职业中取得成功所需的工具，并将她们与女性数学家网络联系起来。 根据参加者的课程后评估，过去的卡尔顿/圣奥拉夫暑期数学课程成功地实现了所有这些目标，学生将参加两门课程，这两门课程在工作日上午上课，由女教师和女助教带领。 在每门课程中，学生将被介绍给微积分以外的数学领域，学生通常没有机会在标准的本科数学课程中学习。 过去这些课程的主题包括代数编码理论、图论、低维动力系统和泛函分析。 通过这些课程，并在他们分配的家庭作业，学生将有机会提高他们的猜测和证明，书面和口头陈述的技能。 学生将不会收到课程学分，或成绩，这些课程，而是他们的表现和成就的书面评估从教师。 解决问题，讨论有关学生继续奖学金的主题（成功作为数学专业，职业选择，选择和生存的研究生课程，并成为一名女科学家），以及数学令人兴奋的领域的座谈会将完成他们的经验。