IGERT: A Joint Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and the Earth & Environmental Sciences

哥伦比亚大学正在建立一个新的，多部门的应用数学和地球环境科学研究生课程。这个新的IGERT联合计划的目的是培养新一代的科学家，他们的数学复杂程度将大大高于目前从地球和环境科学课程毕业的典型学生，同时，他们对地球和环境科学中的重要问题和主要开放研究问题的熟悉程度将比通常对学生的期望要深得多在应用数学系内接受过独特的培训。为了实现这一目标，五个部门在哥伦比亚-数学，统计学，应用物理学应用数学，地球环境科学和地球环境工程-下协调作用的哥伦比亚地球研究所，将合作培养研究生在这个新的IGERT联合计划。虽然IGERT联合项目的学生将由每个部门单独录取，但他们的进展将由与联合项目相关的教师指导委员会进行监督。 除了满足他们被录取的部门的要求外，联合计划的所有学生都将在应用数学中专门针对全球环境科学中的问题和问题进行新的综合两学期序列，并有望在数学和地球科学课程中获得最低学分。 此外，他们将参加由联合计划组织的每周座谈会，每年一次向联合计划的教师和其他学生正式介绍他们的研究成果，参加特别系列的邀请讲座，协助指导本科生，并在研究生培训期间完成一个暑期实习，在研究机构，国家实验室，IGERT是一个全国科学基金会范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士学位的挑战。科学家和工程师与多学科背景和技术，专业和个人技能所需的未来的职业需求。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第五年，该奖项将颁发给21个机构，这些机构的计划共同跨越了NSF支持的科学和工程领域。

Columbia University is establishing a new, multi-departmental graduate program in Applied Mathematics and the Earth & Environmental Sciences. The aim of this new IGERT Joint Program is to train a new generation of scientists whose level of mathematical sophistication will be considerably higher than that of typical students currently graduating from earth and environmental science programs and, at the same time, whose familiarity with the important issues and major open research questions in the earth and environmental sciences will be much deeper that what is usually expected of students trained uniquely within applied mathematics departments. To achieve this goal, five departments at Columbia - Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Earth & Environmental Engineering - under the coordinating role of the Columbia Earth Institute, will collaboratively train graduate students under this new IGERT Joint Program. While students in the IGERT Joint Program will be individually admitted by each department, their progress will be monitored by a Steering Committee of faculty associated with the Joint Program. In addition to satisfying the requirements of the departments into which they are admitted, all students in the Joint Program will take a new integrated two-semester sequence in Applied Mathematics specifically tailored to issues and problems in the global environmental sciences, and will be expected to earn a minimum number of credits in both mathematical and earth science courses. In addition, they will be expected to attend a weekly colloquium organized by the Joint Program, give a formal presentation of their research results once a year to the faculty and other students affiliated with the Joint Program, attend special series of invited lectures, assist in the mentoring of undergraduates, and complete a one summer internship during their graduate training at a research institution, national laboratory, or industrial research center.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the fifth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.