Collaborative Research: CSUMS: URGE to Compute

催促计算提供了一个为期一年的计算密集的本科研究小组的经验，在数学科学的12个本科数学专业的年度队列。该项目是布法罗大学（UB）、布法罗州立学院（BSC）和豪普特曼-伍德沃德医学研究所（Hauptman-WoodwardMedical Research Institute）的合作项目，汇集了一个由16名教师研究人员组成的跨学科小组，他们对计算在数学科学中的重要性有着共同的认识，并成功地监督了本科生的研究。并致力于提高布法罗大学和理学士学院学生的研究生教育和职业生涯的准备效率，这些领域现在需要计算和数学技能的结合。在开始全年的研究经历之前，学生们要学习微积分，微分方程，线性代数，以及科学和数学计算的一门新的二年级课程，这门课程是根据这个项目开发的，面向所有数学专业的学生。为招收在数学科学领域代表性不足的少数民族和妇女作出了特别努力。研究年从学生三年级的春季学期开始，包括：一门辅助性课程，提供主题背景，统一当年的所有研究项目（例如2009年的随机过程）；一门关于计算研究工具和方法的小组授课课程；定期与研究项目导师会面；这是一个贯穿全年的研讨会的第一部分。研究将在整个夏天继续进行，学生们要写一篇荣誉论文，在秋天发表一篇论文。可供学生使用的计算资源包括UB计算研究中心的2000个节点集群和可视化实验室。杰出的外部研究人员的演讲是研讨会的一个特色，学生参加与他们的研究相关的全国性会议，在地区会议和当地的本科奖学金展览上传播他们的成果，并参加当地高中的外展活动。学年结束后，在他们本科的最后一个学期，这些训练有素的学生担任微分方程入门课程的助教，这门课是所有数学、工程和科学专业的学生都要修的。在多年的项目过程中，研究集中在各种各样的社会重要性的主题。这些领域包括光纤通信、农业害虫防治、密码学、医学成像和材料行为（从半导体器件到泥石流）。该项目不仅在这些重要领域培养了一批经过挑选的年度学员，而且还为UB和bsc的所有数学专业的学生提供了大量的课程，这些课程通过项目的准备和支持课程来丰富计算，并且通过研讨会和与从事研究的同龄人的接触来提高部门生活。该项目由MPS数学科学部、MPS多学科活动办公室和本科教育EHR部提供支持。

RinglandDMS-0802994CarbonaraDMS-0802964 URGE to Compute provides a year-long computationallyintensive Undergraduate Research Group Experience in themathematical sciences to an annual cohort of 12 undergraduatemathematics majors. A collaboration of the University at Buffalo(UB), Buffalo State College (BSC), and the Hauptman-WoodwardMedical Research Institute, the project brings together aninterdisciplinary group of 16 faculty researchers who have ashared sense of the importance of computation in the mathematicalsciences, a record of successful supervision of undergraduateresearch, and a commitment to increasing the effectiveness of thepreparation of students at UB and BSC for post-graduate educationand careers in the many fields that now demand a combination ofcomputational and mathematical skills. Prior to commencing thefull-year research experience, students take calculus,differential equations, linear algebra, and a new sophomorecourse in scientific and mathematical computing which wasdeveloped with this project in mind and is offered to all mathmajors. Special efforts are made to recruit minorities andwomen, who are underrepresented in the mathematical sciences. The year of research begins in the Spring semester of thestudents' junior year with: a support course that providesbackground on the theme that unifies all the research projectsfor that year (e.g. stochastic processes in 2009); a team-taughtcourse on the tools and methods of computational research;regular meetings with the research project mentor; and the firstpart of a seminar that runs throughout the year. Researchcontinues through the summer, and students write an honors thesisor a paper for publication in the Fall. Computational resourcesavailable to the students include a 2000-node cluster and avisualization laboratory at UB's Center for ComputationalResearch. Talks by eminent outside researchers are a feature ofthe seminar, and students attend a national conference in an arearelated to their research, disseminate their results at regionalmeetings and local exhibitions of undergraduate scholarship, andparticipate in outreach activities at local high schools. Afterthe year is over, in their final undergraduate semester, the nowhighly trained students serve as teaching assistants in theintroductory differential equations course that is taken by allmathematics, engineering, and science students. Over the multi-year course of the project, the researchfocuses on a wide variety of topics of societal importance. These include optical fiber communications, agricultural pestcontrol, cryptography, medical imaging, and the behavior ofmaterials (from semiconductor devices to mudflows). The projectnot only trains a select annual cohort in these vital areas, butalso reaches a substantial fraction of all math majors at UB andBSC with a curriculum that is computationally enriched by thepreparation and support courses for the project, and adepartmental life that is enhanced by the seminars and theexposure to peers engaged in research. The project is supportedby the MPS Division of Mathematical Sciences, the MPS Office ofMultidisciplinary Activities, and the EHR Division ofUndergraduate Education.