EMSW21-VIGRE: Leveraging the Strength and Extending the Reach of an Integrated Mathematics Community

垂直整合的跨学科研究小组(称为PFUGs，是“博士后、教师、本科生和研究生研究小组”的首字母缩写)现在是三个系(计算数学和应用数学、统计学和数学)的共同标志，这三个系是赖斯Vigre I项目的合作伙伴，并将在Vigre II中继续这种伙伴关系。PFUGs已经成为这些部门的一种生活方式？现有的专业和研究生，以及吸引和招聘广泛人才的绝佳途径。在Vigre II下，随着赖斯本身进入快速增长阶段，这三个部门将维持、扩大和利用这些成功。在Vigre II下，三个系中任何一个系的每个本科生都将经历数学研究。Vigre II将把PFUGs的范围扩大到与传统数学科学系相距更远的部门和机构。此外，虽然该项目将保持其许多正在进行的研究计划，Vigre II也将每年追求一个新的主题，不仅涉及所有三个数学系的所有阶层，而且还将吸引并显著影响一个战略应用领域，如生命科学、金融或信息技术。最后，Vigre II将利用“Connecexion”从根本上改进现有的构建和传播研究成果的机制。“Connexion”是一个基于莱斯的工具集合，用于创建模块，这些模块可以以多种方式相互关联，并可以进行组织，以生成书籍或课程或简短的文档，或者只是在网上浏览。在沟通专业人员的帮助下，学生们将学习如何保存研究日志，经过仔细的编辑和设计，这些日志可以演变为模块。这些PFUGal变化将被合并到一个关于“PFUG的艺术”的叙述中，这将成为垂直一体化的全国典范。

Vertically integrated cross-disciplinary research groups (known as PFUGs, an acronym for "Postdoctoral, Faculty, Undergraduate, and Graduate Research Groups") are now proud, shared emblems of the three departments (Computational and Applied Mathematics, Statistics, and Mathematics) that partnered in the Rice VIGRE I project and will continue that partnership in VIGRE II. PFUGs have become a way of life for the departments? existing majors and graduate students and excellent avenues for engaging and recruiting a broad array of talent. Under VIGRE II the three departments will sustain, expand, and leverage these successes as Rice itself enters a phase of rapid growth. Under VIGRE II every undergraduate major in any of the three departments will experience mathematical research. VIGRE II will extend the reach of PFUGs to departments and institutions at further distance from the traditional mathematical sciences departments. In addition, while the project will maintain many of its ongoing research programs, VIGRE II will also annually pursue a single new theme that not only engages all strata of all three mathematics departments but also draws in and significantly impacts a strategic area of application, such as the life sciences, finance, or information technology. Finally, VIGRE II will exploit "Connexions" to improve radically the existing mechanisms for constructing and disseminating findings. "Connexions" is a Rice-based collection of tools to create modules that can be related to each other in multiple ways and that can be organized so as to produce books or courses or short documents or just browsed online. Students, with help from communication professionals, will learn to keep research logs that, with careful editing and design, could evolve into modules. These PFUGal variations will be folded into a narrative on "The Art of the PFUG" that will serve as a national model for vertical integration.