Graduate Education and Development: The GSMM Camp and MPI Workshop

研究生教育和发展：GSMM 营和 MPI 研讨会

• 批准号: 0707280
• 负责人: Donald Schwendeman
• 金额: $ 17.63万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0707280&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Graduate; Education; Development; GSMM; Camp

Proposal: DMS - 0707280PI: Schwendeman, Donald WInstitution: Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTitle: Graduate Education and Development: The GSMM Camp and MPI Workshop ABSTRACTThis proposal describes a program for graduate student education and career development consisting of the Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling (GSMM) Camp and the Mathematical Problems in Industry (MPI) Workshop. The GSMM Camp is a week-long meeting held annually in June and is designed to promote problem-solving and scientific communication skills. At the Camp, graduate students work together in teams, with the guidance of a faculty mentor, on highly interdisciplinary problems typically inspired by industrial applications. The problems span a wide range of areas of application and are carefully selected to promote a broad set of problem-solving skills. The MPI Workshop is held during the week following the Camp, and its focus is on a set of problems brought by representatives from industry. At the Workshop, the graduate students from the Camp are joined by postdocs and faculty, all working together in teams on the problems presented. While the general organization of the Workshop is similar to that of the Camp the emphasis is different. The Camp is a vehicle for graduate student education, whose aim is to build strength in problem-solving and scientific communication skills. The problems brought to the Camp are intended to challenge, but not overwhelm, the students, and to provide a warm up for the difficult problems considered at the Workshop. The Workshop also provides a learning experience for graduate students, but its primary goal is to promote links between applied mathematicians at universities and scientists and engineers in industry. The two meetings compliment each other, and the combined program is highly valuable for graduate students and unique amongst universities in the U.S., and in the northeast in particular.The proposed activity builds on a successful program already in place under the direction of the Principle Investigator. The first three GSMM Camps were held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute starting in the summer of 2004, and a fourth Camp is scheduled for June, 2007. These Camps have attracted over one hundred outstanding graduate students, including many women and students from underrepresented groups, from top-tier universities across the U.S. and Canada. The present grant will support the organization and graduate student participation in three more GSMM Camps beginning in the summer of 2008. As a result of this support, the program will continue to grow and to have a broad impact on graduate student education and development. The Camp, and the Workshop that follows, promote both depth in mathematics and the ability to understand and communicate across a variety of areas of science and engineering. Accordingly, the Camp-Workshop combination provides a valuable experience that has a strong impact on the interdisciplinary research efforts of the participating graduate students. The intellectual merit of the activity centers around the problems considered at the Camp and Workshop. Some of these problems have led to follow up research and new mathematical results, and it is expected that this will continue to be an outcome of the combined problem-solving experience. In sum, the aim of the program is to help build a stronger workforce of applied mathematicians who are both skilled in interdisciplinary research and are able to communicate effectively across a variety of areas of science and engineering.

提案：DMS -0707280 PI：Schwendeman，Donald W机构：Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTitle：研究生教育与发展：GSMM夏令营和MPI研讨会摘要本提案描述了一个由研究生数学建模（GSMM）夏令营和工业数学问题（MPI）研讨会组成的研究生教育和职业发展计划。 GSMM夏令营是每年6月举行的为期一周的会议，旨在促进解决问题和科学沟通技能。 在营地，研究生在团队中一起工作，与教师导师的指导下，对高度跨学科的问题通常由工业应用的启发。 这些问题跨越了广泛的应用领域，并经过精心挑选，以促进广泛的解决问题的技能。 MPI研讨会在夏令营之后的一周内举行，其重点是由行业代表带来的一系列问题。 在研讨会上，来自夏令营的研究生与博士后和教师一起，共同研究所提出的问题。 虽然讲习班的一般组织与夏令营相似，但重点不同。 夏令营是研究生教育的工具，其目的是建立解决问题和科学沟通技能的力量。 在夏令营中提出的问题旨在挑战学生，但不是压倒学生，并为研讨会上考虑的难题提供热身。 讲习班还为研究生提供学习经验，但其主要目标是促进大学应用数学家与工业界科学家和工程师之间的联系。 这两个会议相辅相成，合并后的计划是非常有价值的研究生和独特的大学在美国，特别是在东北部。拟议的活动建立在一个成功的计划已经到位的指导下，主要研究员。 前三届GSMM夏令营于2004年夏天在伦斯勒理工学院举行，第四届夏令营计划于2007年6月举行。 这些夏令营吸引了来自美国和加拿大顶级大学的100多名优秀研究生，其中包括许多女性和来自代表性不足群体的学生。 目前的赠款将支持该组织和研究生参加2008年夏天开始的另外三个GSMM夏令营。 由于这种支持，该计划将继续增长，并对研究生教育和发展产生广泛的影响。 营地，以及随后的研讨会，促进数学的深度和理解能力，并在科学和工程的各个领域进行沟通。 因此，营地研讨会组合提供了一个宝贵的经验，对参与研究生的跨学科研究工作产生了很大的影响。 活动的智力价值围绕着在营地和研讨会上考虑的问题。 其中一些问题已经导致了后续研究和新的数学结果，预计这将继续成为解决问题的综合经验的结果。 总之，该计划的目的是帮助建立一支更强大的应用数学家队伍，他们既精通跨学科研究，又能够在科学和工程的各个领域进行有效沟通。