IGERT: Institutions, Diversity, Emergence, Adaptations and Structures (IDEAS)

密歇根大学和圣达菲研究所，在复杂适应系统研究的两个领先机构，正在联合组织和支持IGERT研究生课程感兴趣的社会科学家在机构的性能和设计。课程的分析核心借鉴了多个学科：经济学，政治学，计算机科学，物理学和社会学。重点将是如何收集不同的代理人的行为和适应时，他们的互动结构的正式和非正式的制度约束。学生研究人员将研究正式机构如何适应和应对，非正式机构如何出现，机构之间和机构内部的关系结构如何影响绩效和稳健性，以及文化，社会，经济和行为多样性何时以及如何对机构产生影响。该计划将被安置在密歇根大学，但学生将有机会访问圣达菲研究所一个学期。IDEAS IGERT将使学生通过研讨会，研究助理，跨学科课程以及与教师的互动成为两个机构社会科学研究社区的积极成员。IDEAS学生还将参加课程，并参加与STIET（另一个NSF赞助的UM IGERT）注册的学生研讨会。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在应对教育美国博士的挑战。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，将向21个机构颁发奖项，这些机构的项目共同涵盖了美国国家科学基金会支持的科学和工程领域。

The University of Michigan and The Santa Fe Institute, two leading institutions in the study of complex adaptive systems, are jointly organizing and supporting an IGERT graduate program for social scientists interested in institutional performance and design. The analytic core of the curricula borrows from multiple disciplines: economics, political science, computer science, physics, and sociology. The emphasis will be on how collections of diverse agents behave and adapt when their interactions are structured by formal and informal institutional constraints. Student researchers will study how formal institutions adapt and respond, how informal institutions emerge, how the structure of relationships between and within institutions affects performance and robustness, and when and how cultural, social, economic and behavioral diversity matter for institutions. The program will be housed at the University of Michigan but students will have the opportunity to visit the Santa Fe Institute for a semester. The IDEAS IGERT will enable students to become active members in the social science research communities at both institutions through seminars, research assistantships, interdisciplinary courses, and interactions with faculty. IDEAS students will also take courses and attend seminars with students enrolled in STIET (another NSF sponsored IGERT at UM).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.