REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Algebra and Discrete Mathematics at Auburn University

2010-2012年的每个夏天，八名本科生将在奥本大学聚集八周，进行代数和离散数学领域的研究。我们的目标是为参与者提供真实的研究体验，让他们对研究生院和研究生涯感到兴奋。 我们计划的重要部分是，我们提出了很多研究问题，参与者可以与任何人一起研究其中任何一个。因此，活动的模式将与我们以前的REU计划一样：在前两到三周集中介绍问题和问题领域，在第三周由每个参与者进行强制性的“破冰”演讲，然后在剩下的五周进行“研究机构”，最后一周结束时由每个参与者进行最终演讲。 在研究所阶段，每天至少有一个研究报告，由我们的数学和统计学系的教师和研究生，访问名人和参与者自己。 但这一阶段的主要特点将是由参与者进行的研究，与教师，研究生和他们自己的各种组合。可发表的结果将由参与者自己撰写，并得到项目主任的建议，或者，在与教师联合工作的情况下，由一名教师与参与者协商。沟通将保持与参与者在程序结束后进行进一步的研究，在全国会议上展示结果，为后续计划或研究生学习招聘，并评估该计划对他们的生活的影响的目的。

Eight undergraduates will assemble for eight weeks at Auburn University in each of the summers 2010-2012 to conduct research in areas of algebra and discrete mathematics. Our aim is to provide participants with an authentic research experience and get them excited about graduate school and research careers. The essential part of our program is that we lay out a lot of research problems, and participants can work on any one of them with anybody. The pattern of activities will therefore be as in our previous REU programs: intensive introduction to problems and problem areas in the first two to three weeks, capped by an obligatory "ice-breaker" presentation by each participant in the third week, followed by a "research institute" in the remaining five weeks, capped by a final presentation by each participant at the end of the final week. During the research institute phase, there will be at least one research presentation every day, by faculty and graduate students of our Department of Mathematics and Statistics, visiting luminaries, and the participants themselves. But the main feature of that phase will be research carried on by the participants, in various combinations with faculty, graduate students, and themselves. Publishable results will be written up either by the participants themselves, with advice from the project directors, or, in the case of joint work with faculty, by a faculty member in consultation with the participant(s). Communication will be maintained with participants after the program ends for the purpose of conducting further research, presenting results at national conferences, recruiting for subsequent programs or graduate study, and for assessing the impact of the program on their lives.