REU Site: Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation at Ohio Wesleyan University

该奖项支持本科生（REU）网站的研究经验与教师（RET）的研究经验在俄亥俄州卫斯理大学组件集成。 每个学生（教师）参与者将在经验丰富的俄亥俄州卫斯理大学教师的指导下进行为期十周（六周）的研究项目，涉及以下学科之一：天文学，计算机科学，数学/统计学和物理学。 所有项目都集中在科学计算的一个或多个方面：数值，符号和数据可视化。 研究项目的一个重要目标是使参与者意识到计算技术跨越学科界限的能力，即有效解决许多不同科学研究领域的感兴趣问题。 每周会议，其中个别研究小组将提供进度报告，所有参与者将能够讨论项目，培养参与者之间的社区意识，并指出计算技术的优势，以解决不同学科的问题。 该大学最近购买了一个机架式Beowulf集群，可供参与者在他们的项目中使用，并将提供一个专门讨论集群建设、操作和使用背后的基本思想的研讨会。 在研究期结束时将举行一次研究专题讨论会，让与会者介绍他们的成果。其他俄亥俄州文理学院将被邀请参加研讨会。 每一次发言都将被记录下来并上传到REU网站，以便向更广泛的世界传播。 此外，鼓励参与的学生和教师在专业科学学会的区域和国家会议上介绍他们的成果。 强烈鼓励代表性不足的群体，包括少数民族和来自研究机会很少的小型学院和大学的学生申请，高中教师也可以鼓励代表性不足的群体的学生学习科学。 该奖项由物理和数学科学部门以及数学和物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室共同资助。

This award supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site to be integrated with a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) component at Ohio Wesleyan University. Each student (teacher) participant will work on a ten-week (six-week) research project under the guidance of an experienced Ohio Wesleyan University faculty member in one of the following disciplines: astronomy, computer science, mathematics/statistics, and physics. All projects focus on one or more aspects of scientific computation: numerical, symbolic, and data visualization. An important goal of the research projects is to make participants aware of the ability of computational techniques to cross disciplinary boundaries, i.e. to be effective at solving problems of interest in many different fields of scientific inquiry. Weekly meetings, in which individual research groups will give progress reports and where all participants will be able to discuss the projects, foster a sense of community among the participants and point out the strengths of computational techniques to tackle problems in varying disciplines. A rack-mounted Beowulf cluster, purchased recently by the university, will be available for participants to use on their projects, and a workshop devoted to the basic ideas behind the construction, operation, and use of the cluster will be offered. A research symposium will be held at the end of the research period for participants to present their results. Other Ohio liberal arts colleges will be invited to participate in the symposium. Each presentation will be recorded and uploaded to the REU website for dissemination to the wider world. In addition, participating students and teachers are encouraged to present their results at regional and national conferences of professional scientific societies. Underrepresented groups, including minorities and students from small colleges and universities with little research opportunities are strongly encouraged to apply, as are high school teachers who are in a position to encourage students from underrepresented groups to study science. This award is co-funded by the Divisions of Physics and Mathematics Sciences and by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.