San Francisco State University-Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Collaboration for Education

该项目将在美国最大的少数民族学生教育中心之一旧金山州立大学(SFSU)数学系和世界领先的数学研究中心之一数学科学研究所(MSRI)之间建立长期合作关系。每学期，这项合作将围绕旧金山州立大学的一门本科主题课程展开，该课程基于该学期MSRI的重点课程之一。SFSU和MSRI的合作将由SFSU数学系的一名教员授课(每学期有不同的人)。此人将在本学期参加与所选主题相关的MSRI项目，并将在旧金山州立大学的学生和MSRI的研究数学家之间发挥桥梁作用。SFSU-MSRI合作课程将由访问MSRI参加其计划的顶尖数学家每月进行演讲。SFSU-MSRI合作课程的所有讲座将通过MSRI的流媒体视频技术向世界提供。这项技术由MSRI率先在万维网上发布数学讲座，使用一个浏览器窗口显示演讲的幻灯片，另一个浏览器窗口显示演讲者，同时声音流畅。由于研究型数学家很少向本科生推介工作，就像他们在旧金山州立大学-MSRI合作课程中所做的那样，整套讲座将以光盘形式提供，以便分发给其他大学。为了使旧金山州立大学的学生和教职员工能够拥有为MSRI项目做准备所需的图书馆资源，将为SFSU图书馆购买数学书籍。每学期，旧金山州立大学都会强调为图书馆购买与该学期的SFSU-MSRI合作课程主题相关的书籍。该项目还将每年资助四名旧金山州立大学的研究生。这些学生每学期将参加MSRI的各种活动。旧金山州立大学将成为MSRI的学术赞助商。会员福利包括派遣两名已支付费用的研究生参加MSRI暑期项目，邀请MSRI的演讲者并支付部分费用，获得预印本系列，以及会议的财政支持。

This project will establish a long-term collaboration between the Mathematics Department of San Francisco State University (SFSU), one of the country's largest centers of education for minority students, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), one of the world's leading mathematical research centers. Each semester this collaboration will revolve around an undergraduate topics course at SFSU based on one of the emphasis programs at MSRI that semester. The SFSU-MSRI collaboration will be taught by a faculty member in the SFSU Mathematics Department (a different person each semester). This person will participate in the MSRI program associated with the chosen topic during the semester and will act as a bridge between SFSU students and the research mathematicians at MSRI. The SFSU-MSRI collaboration course will feature monthly talks by leading mathematicians who are visiting MSRI to participate in its program. All lectures in the SFSU-MSRI collaboration course will be made available to the world through MSRI's streaming video technology. This technique, pioneered by MSRI for publishing mathematical lectures on the World Wide Web, uses one browser window to show the slides of the talk and another to show the speaker while the sound flows smoothly. Because research mathematicians rarely pitch work to undergraduates, as they will in the SFSU-MSRI collaboration course, the entire set of lectures will be made available on CD-ROM for dissemination to other universities. So that SFSU students and faculty can have the library resources needed to prepare for MSRI programs, mathematics books will be purchased for the SFSU library. Each semester, SFSU will emphasize the purchase of books for the library related to the topic of that semester's SFSU-MSRI collaboration course. This project also will support four SFSU graduate students each year. These students will participate in various activities at MSRI each semester. SFSU will become an Academic Sponsor of MSRI. Membership benefits include sending two graduate students, expenses paid, to the MSRI Summer Program, inviting speakers from MSRI with expenses partially paid, receiving the preprint series, and financial support for conferences.