Summer Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

暑期本科生 数学科学研究所

• 批准号: 0401764
• 负责人: Vasant Waikar
• 金额: $ 5.77万
• 依托单位: Miami University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-01 至 2006-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0401764&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Summer; Undergraduate; Mathematical; Sciences; Research

The Summer Undergraduate Mathematical Science Research Institute (SUMSRI) is a program conducted under the guidance of Miami University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. One of the goals of SUMSRI is to prepare participants for the rigor and pace of graduate school. The primary goal of the Institute is to provide approximately 15 nationally selected students with an intensive research experience augmented by formal and informal information sessions. To accomplish these goals, SUMSRI will run seven weeks on Miami University's campus in Oxford, Ohio. During these seven weeks, students will participate in research seminars in mathematics, statistics, or computer science. The program will also include a technical writing seminar, a GRE preparation workshop, two short courses on algebra and real analysis, and colloquium talks given by well known mathematical scientists. In 1998, the NSF sponsored a study to discover what areas could be identified that could explain the low number of minorities with advanced degrees in the mathematical sciences. The results of this study were published in the article, "The Human Capital Liabilities of Underrepresented Minorities in Pursuit of Science, Mathematics and Engineering Doctoral Degrees". This study points out that African Americans and Hispanics lag far behind their white male peers in three areas of Human Capital including background characteristics, undergraduate performance and experience, and the preparation and transition into graduate school. A recent survey conducted by Dr. John Alexander and Dr. William A. Hawkins titled "Survey of Minority Graduate Students in U.S. Mathematical Sciences Departments," recommends creating programs like SUMSRI to encourage minority undergraduate students to pursue advanced degrees in the mathematical sciences. Because of the shortage of minorities and women mathematical scientists, the program is especially interested in, but not limited to, African Americans and other underrepresented minorities and women. The combination of information, educational experiences and ongoing support is designed to encourage these talented mathematics and statistics students to continue and thrive in the mathematical research environment and thereby eventually increase the number of African Americans and other underrepresented minorities with doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences. Information about the program can be found on their website, http://www.units.muohio.edu/sumsri/. The website includes an online journal of participants' results.

暑期本科生数学科学研究所（SUMSRI）是在迈阿密大学数学与统计系指导下开展的项目。 SUMSRI 的目标之一是让参与者为研究生院的严格性和节奏做好准备。该研究所的主要目标是为大约 15 名全国选拔的学生提供深入的研究经验，并通过正式和非正式的信息会议来增强。为了实现这些目标，SUMSRI 将在俄亥俄州牛津市迈阿密大学校园运行七周。在这七周内，学生将参加数学、统计学或计算机科学的研究研讨会。该计划还将包括技术写作研讨会、GRE 准备研讨会、两门关于代数和实分析的短期课程，以及由著名数学科学家主讲的座谈会。 1998 年，美国国家科学基金会赞助了一项研究，旨在发现哪些领域可以解释拥有数学科学高级学位的少数群体数量较少的原因。 这项研究的结果发表在《少数族裔追求科学、数学和工程博士学位时的人力资本负债》一文中。这项研究指出，非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人在人力资本的三个领域远远落后于白人男性同龄人，包括背景特征、本科表现和经验、以及进入研究生院的准备和过渡。 约翰·亚历山大 (John Alexander) 博士和威廉·A·霍金斯 (William A. Hawkins) 博士最近进行的一项题为“美国数学科学系少数族裔研究生调查”的调查建议创建像 SUMSRI 这样的项目，鼓励少数族裔本科生攻读数学科学的高级学位。由于少数族裔和女性数学科学家的短缺，该计划对非裔美国人和其他代表性不足的少数族裔和女性特别感兴趣，但不限于此。 信息、教育经验和持续支持的结合旨在鼓励这些才华横溢的数学和统计学学生继续在数学研究环境中茁壮成长，从而最终增加获得数学科学博士学位的非裔美国人和其他少数族裔的数量。有关该计划的信息可以在他们的网站上找到：http://www.units.muohio.edu/sumsri/。该网站包括参与者结果的在线日志。