REU Site: DIMACS/DIMATIA U.S./Czech International REU Program

该项目是由总部位于罗格斯大学的离散数学和理论计算机科学中心DIMACS运行，并由捷克共和国布拉格查尔斯大学的离散数学、理论信息学和应用中心DIMATIA共同发起的国内外REU项目。学生将从美国和捷克共和国各地招募。该国内项目将继续开发先前作为试点引入的学术-工业和跨学科共同指导项目，并将通过位于 DIMACS 的新卓越中心利用国土安全部的 REU 资金。该国际项目将接待捷克学生并将美国学生送往布拉格。 REU 项目的目标是为参与者提供令人兴奋的研究体验，帮助他们决定未来的教育和职业道路。所有学生，包括国内项目的学生，都将通过捷克学生参与的联合项目和社交活动以及捷克研究和文化讲座来体验国际科学事业。智力优势：该计划将侧重于 DIMACS 和 DIMATIA 的共同优势，特别是在理论计算机科学和离散数学主题，如图论、计算几何、逻辑和复杂性理论以及组合优化。该项目还将利用 DIMACS 作为跨学科中心的地位，提供跨学科应用的项目，并展示计算思维在许多环境中的力量，例如计算生物信息学、健康数据隐私、流行病学建模、电子商务的经济方面以及海量数据集中的信息管理。通过让学生了解当前有关网络分析、传感器定位和互联网拍卖的工业研究，以及通过与 DIMACS 国土安全部 REU 项目互动来了解国土安全应用，将强化这一观点。更广泛的影响：该项目每年将为 15 名优秀本科生提供无与伦比的科学和跨文化体验。除了发表科学论文和演讲之外，国内外学生之间也将建立联系，这种联系将持续很长时间。还将与导师和研究生协调员进行新的合作。该计划旨在影响相关学生对继续教育和未来职业的选择，并让他们有信心追求这些选择。该计划将增加 ​​DIMACS 和 DIMATIA 及其在美国和捷克共和国广泛的科学合作者之间的互动数量，旨在产生超出所支持的特定学生范围的“涓滴”效应。该计划还旨在提高更大的科学界对国际合作和交叉授精的重要性和机会的认识。这种国际合作模式将向其他机构的同事宣传。

This project is a domestic and international REU program run by DIMACS, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, headquartered at Rutgers University, and cosponsored by DIMATIA, the Center for Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical Informatics, and Applications, at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Students will be recruited from across the U.S. and the Czech Republic. The domestic program will continue to develop an academic-industrial and interdisciplinary co-mentoring program previously introduced as a pilot and will leverage REU funds from the Department of Homeland Security through a new Center of Excellence based at DIMACS. The international program will host Czech students and send U.S. students to Prague. The goal of this REU program is to provide participants with an exciting research experience that will help them decide on future educational and career paths. All students, including those only in the domestic program, will get a taste of the international scientific enterprise through joint programs and social events involving the Czech students and lectures on Czech research and culture. Intellectual Merit: The program will focus on common strengths of DIMACS and DIMATIA, particularly in topics of theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics such as graph theory, computational geometry, logic and complexity theory, and combinatorial optimization. The program will also leverage DIMACS position as an interdisciplinary center to offer projects whose applications cross disciplines and illustrate the power of computational thinking in many settings, such as computational bioinformatics, health data privacy, epidemiological modeling, economic aspects of e-commerce, and information management in massive data sets. This perspective will be reinforced by exposing students to current industrial research on network analysis, sensor location, and Internet auctions, and to homeland security applications through interaction with DIMACS Department of Homeland Security REU program. Broader Impacts: The program will provide an incomparable scientific and cross-cultural experience to 15 outstanding undergraduates per year. In addition to leading to scientific papers and talks, there will be networking among students - domestic and foreign - that will last far into the future. There will also be new collaborations with mentors and graduate student coordinators. The program aims to influence the choices about further education and future careers of the students involved, and give them the confidence to pursue these choices. The program will increase the number of interactions between DIMACS and DIMATIA and their widespread scientific collaborators throughout the U.S. and the Czech Republic, and aims to have a "trickle down" effect that extends beyond the specific students supported. The program also aims to raise the awareness of a larger scientific community to the importance of and opportunities in international collaboration and cross-fertilization. This international collaborative model will be publicized to colleagues at other institutions.