Undergraduate Student Travel to Conferences

德克萨斯农工大学数学本科生荣誉计划的目标之一是鼓励学生继续攻读数学科学研究生院。甚至在数学荣誉项目开始之前，为了支持我们的本科生的研究，我们以前的Vigre和我们以前和现在的REU助学金资助学生在地区和国家会议上展示他们的工作。这项提案的PI苏·盖勒陪同学生参加了联席会议、内布拉斯加州数学女本科生会议和MathFest，以帮助他们学习从参加会议中受益。这笔赠款的目的是扩大送本科生参加会议的计划，使一些学生可以不发表演讲或展示海报。在过去的5年里，我们试行了派遣一些没有出席内布拉斯加州数学本科女性会议的女性的想法。这项实验的结果令人鼓舞，因为有两个人在没有提交报告的第二年提交了报告，两个人现在在德克萨斯农工大学攻读统计学博士项目，一个是康涅狄格大学的博士生，两个是精算师，三个仍然是数学专业的学生，只有两个人，都是低年级学生，已经转到其他领域，但使用数学的领域。总体而言，学生们从会议回来后，精力充沛地在数学上脱颖而出，并继续学习。

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.