Industrial Mathematics Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students, July 22 - 30, 2002, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

2002年NCSU研究生工业数学建模工作坊(IMMW2002)旨在让数学、统计和工程专业的学生接触来自工业和政府实验室的问题，并向他们介绍团队解决问题的方法。研讨会定于2002年7月22日至7月30日举行，由皮埃尔·格雷莫、李志林、拉尔夫·史密斯和海恩·陈组织。讲习班容纳了来自国家和国际机构的约36名研究生(共6个小组)。来自行业或政府实验室的科学家将被邀请介绍当前的研究问题，并领导由6-7名学生组成的团队，通过模型制定和至少部分解决问题。这丰富了传统的毕业生经验，并为考虑学术职业的学生和准备从事非老年职业的学生提供了有价值的培训。对于准备从事学术工作的学生来说，研讨会提供的经验将大大拓宽他们在课堂上的视野，并可能为以后的研究提供催化剂。对于追求非学术职业的学生来说，这一经历甚至更有意义，因为它为他们提供了比接触重要的“现实生活”问题更多的机会，并让他们在解决这些问题方面获得了一些初步经验。

The 2002 NCSU Industrial Mathematics Modeling Workshop for graduate students (IMMW2002) is designed to expose students in mathematics, statistics and engineering to problems from industry and government laboratories, and introduce them to a team approach to problem solving. The workshop is scheduled for the time period July 22, 2002 to July 30, 2002 and is organized by Pierre Gremaud, Zhilin Li, Ralph Smith, and Hien Tran. The workshop accommodates approximately 36 graduate students (for a total of 6 teams)from national and international institutions. Scientists from industry or government laboratories will be invited to present current research problems and lead teams of 6-7 students through model formulation and at least partial solution of the problems. This enriches the traditional graduate experience and provides valuable training for both students considering academic careers and those students preparing for noncademic careers. For students preparing for an academic career, the workshop provides experience which will significantly broaden their perspective in the classroom and may provide a catalyst for later research. The experience is even more significant for students pursuing nonacademic careers since it provides them withan exposure to important ``real life'' problems and gives them some initial experience at addressing such problems.