IGERT: Program in Nonlinear Systems

该综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖将支持建立非线性系统的多学科研究生培训计划，该计划强调在自然和工程系统分析中找到表达的常见数学和理论思想。这项活动是由来自康奈尔大学航空航天工程系、农业与生物工程系、应用与工程物理系、生物计量学系、化学工程系、经济学系、电气工程系、地质科学系、管理学、数学系、机械工程系、神经生物学与行为学系、运筹学与工业工程系、物理学系、生理学系、理论与应用力学系的36名科学家和工程师共同努力的结果。加入他们的还有来自摩根士丹利、纽约州立大学健康科学中心、洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室、佐治亚理工学院、惠普和博伊斯-汤普森研究所的科学家、工程师和商业学者。这组学者的成员建立了研究合作；他们的集体专业知识将为在该奖项的五年任期内培训大约60名研究生的多元化干部提供知识基础。参加这项IGERT活动的博士生将被录取到康奈尔大学现有的研究生领域之一，并将学习两学期的非线性科学综合课程，包括确定性和随机数学方法，并探索在各个学科中的应用。这些学生还必须完成各自领域的博士学位要求，选修不同领域的辅修课程，参加每周的学术讨论会和研讨会，并在实验室、医院、华尔街公司或工业环境中完成暑期实习。该计划的目标是教育学生流利的几个学科和理论方法，所有这些都与非线性现象的主题有关。IGERT是一个新的，nsf范围内的项目，旨在促进建立创新的，以研究为基础的研究生项目，培养多样化的科学家和工程师群体，为利用广泛的职业选择做好充分的准备。IGERT为博士机构提供了一个开发新的、重点突出的多学科研究生课程的机会，这些课程超越了组织界限，并将来自几个部门或机构的教师联合起来，为培训和研究建立一个高度互动、协作的环境。在该计划的第一年，将为17个机构提供新的或新生的项目，这些项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award will support the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program in Nonlinear Systems that emphasizes common mathematical and theoretical ideas that find expression in the analysis of natural and engineering systems. This activity is a joint effort of thirty-six scientists and engineers from the Departments of Aerospace Engineering, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Applied and Engineering Physics, Biometry, Chemical Engineering, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Geological Sciences, Management, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Neurobiology and Behavior, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Physics, Physiology, and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University. Joining them are scientists, engineers, and business scholars from Morgan Stanley, SUNY Health Science Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, Hewlett-Packard, and the Boyce-Thompson Institute. Members of this group of scholars have established research collaborations; their collective expertise will provide the intellectual underpinning for the training of a diverse cadre of some sixty graduate students over the five-year tenure of the award. Doctoral students in this IGERT activity will be admitted to one of Cornell's existing Graduate Fields and will take an integrated two-semester course in nonlinear science that includes both deterministic and stochastic mathematical methods, and explore applications in various disciplines. These students must also complete the PhD requirements in their respective fields, take a minor in a different field, attend weekly colloquia and seminars, and complete a summer internship in a laboratory, hospital, Wall Street firm, or industrial setting as appropriate. The goal of the program is to educate students to be fluent in several disciplines and theoretical methodologies, all of which bear on the theme of nonlinear phenomena. IGERT is a new, NSF-wide program intended to facilitate the establishment of innovative, research-based graduate programs that will train a diverse group of scientists and engineers to be well-prepared to take advantage of a broad spectrum of career options. IGERT provides doctoral institutions with an opportunity to develop new, well-focussed multidisciplinary graduate programs that transcend organizational boundaries and unite faculty from several departments or institutions to establish a highly interactive, collaborative environment for both training and research. In this first year of the program, support will be provided to seventeen institutions for new or nascent programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.