Undergraduate Student Travel to Conferences

德州农工大学数学本科荣誉课程的一个目标是鼓励学生继续攻读数学科学研究生。 即使在数学荣誉课程开始之前，为了支持我们的本科生进行研究，我们以前的VIGRE和我们以前和现在的REU赠款学生在区域和国家会议上展示他们的工作。 该提案的PI Sue Geller陪同学生参加了联合会议、内布拉斯加大学数学系女本科生会议和MathFest，以帮助他们学习从参加会议中受益。该补助金的目的是扩大派本科生参加会议的计划，以便一些学生可以不做演讲或提交海报。 在过去的5年里，我们已经试行了发送一些妇女谁不出席内布拉斯加州会议的本科妇女在数学的想法。 这个实验的结果是令人鼓舞的，因为两个人在他们没有演讲的第二年提出了演讲，两个人现在是博士。在德克萨斯A &M大学的统计学课程中，一个是博士。在康涅狄格大学的学生中，两个是精算师，三个仍然是数学专业，只有两个，都是低年级学生，已经转到其他领域，但那些使用数学。 一般来说，学生回家的会议充满活力，擅长数学，并继续在它。

One goal of the Undergraduate Honors Programs in Mathematics at Texas A\&M University is to encourage students to continue on to graduate school in the mathematical sciences. Even before the start of the Honors Programs in Mathematics, in order to support our undergraduates in research, our previous VIGRE and our previous and current REU grants funded students to present their work at regional and national conferences. The PI of this proposal, Sue Geller, accompanied the students to the Joint Meetings, the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Woman in Mathematics, and MathFest to help them learn to benefit from attending conferences.The purpose of this grant is to expand the program of sending undergraduates to conferences so that some students may go without giving a talk or presenting a poster. In the past 5 years we have piloted the idea of sending a few women who do not present to the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics. The results from this experiment are encouraging in that two presented the year after they went without presenting, two are now in the Ph.D. program in statistics at Texas A\&M University, one is a Ph.D. student at the University of Connecticut, two are actuaries, three are still mathematics majors, and only two, both underclassman, have switched to other fields, but ones that use mathematics. In general, the students come home from the conferences energized to excel at mathematics and to continue in it.