Travel Support for the Math in Moscow Program

有了这笔赠款，美国数学学会（AMS）正在申请三年的资金，主要用于每学年提供十个奖学金（每个9,000美元），以数学天才的美国本科生在莫斯科独立大学（IUM）的莫斯科数学项目学习一个学期。 IUM是一所小型的精英高等教育机构，主要专注于数学。 它成立于1991年在一组著名的俄罗斯研究数学家，谁现在包括大学的学术理事会的倡议。 在过去的几年里，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）已经向AMS提供了三笔持续的赠款，用于支持这些奖学金。 奖学金将涵盖莫斯科数学项目一个学期的典型费用的很大一部分。 剩余的资金将用于支付增加对该计划的行政支持的费用，其中包括对奖学金获得者进行纵向调查的计划，该计划将跟踪每个学生八年，以衡量该计划在学生继续获得硕士学位方面的成果。数学在莫斯科计划提供了一个独特的，密集的研究经验，数学天才的学生，用英语授课。 该计划主要包括数学和理论计算机科学课程，并提供了学术上丰富的经验，因为它允许数学天才的学生与其他对数学有浓厚兴趣的学生见面和合作，以及与一些世界领先的数学家合作的机会。 该计划提供了一个数学的经验，学生不会发现在美国这是因为学生体验数学领域，因为它是在俄罗斯的传统，其主要特点一直是数学的创造性方法的发展，重点是解决问题，而不是记忆定理。 事实上，在IUM，在经验丰富的教师的指导下发现数学是其计划的中心原则，莫斯科数学计划强调深入理解精心挑选的材料，而不是广泛调查大量的材料。 许多学生谁收到了以前的NSF资助的奖学金参加数学在莫斯科计划已经去学习数学在竞争激烈的研究生课程在美国除了提供一个学术丰富的经验，数学在莫斯科计划填补了出国留学机会的空白数学人才本科生有兴趣学习研究级数学，奖学金计划为这些学生利用这一独特的机会提供了重要的支持。 最后，还有另一个支持这样一个计划的有力理由。 这是在俄罗斯和美国数学界之间建立重要学术联系的一种方式，这肯定符合两国未来科学研究的最佳利益。 在我们两个社区的数学家之间建立联系，无论是年轻人还是老年人，都将促进科学合作。

With this grant, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) is requesting funding for three years to be used primarily to provide ten scholarships ($9,000 each) per academic year to mathematically talented U.S. undergraduates for a semester of study at the Math in Moscow program of the Independent University of Moscow (IUM). The IUM is a small, elite institution of higher learning that focuses primarily on mathematics. It was founded in 1991 at the initiative of a group of well-known Russian research mathematicians, who now comprise the Academic Council of the University. Over the past several years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded three continuing grants to the AMS with funds to be used to support these scholarships. The scholarship will cover a substantial part of the typical cost for a semester of study in the Math in Moscow program. The remaining funds will cover the costs of increased administrative support for the program, which includes a plan to perform a longitudinal survey of scholarship recipients that will follow each student for eight years to measure outcomes of the program with regard to students going on to obtain M.A. and PhD degrees.The Math in Moscow program provides a unique, intensive research experience for mathematically talented students, taught in English. This program consists primarily of courses in mathematics and theoretical computer science, and provides both an academically enriching experience because it allows mathematically talented students to meet and work with other students who share an intense interest in mathematics, as well as the chance to work with some of the world's leading mathematicians. The program provides an experience of mathematics that the students would not find in the U.S. This is because students experience the field of mathematics as it is practiced in the Russian tradition, the main feature of which has always been the development of a creative approach to mathematics, with the emphasis being on problem solving rather than memorizing theorems. Indeed, at the IUM, discovering mathematics under the guidance of an experienced teacher is the central principle of its program, and the Math in Moscow program emphasizes in-depth understanding of carefully selected material rather than broad surveys of large quantities of material. Many of the students who have received the previous NSF-funded scholarships to attend the Math in Moscow program have gone on to study mathematics in highly competitive graduate programs in the U.S. In addition to providing an academically enriching experience, the Math in Moscow program fills a gap in study abroad opportunities for mathematically talented undergraduates interested in studying research-level mathematics, and the scholarship program provides vital support for such students to take advantage of this unique opportunity. Finally, there is another strong rationale for supporting such a program. It is a way to build vital scholarly connections between the Russian and U.S. mathematics communities, which are certainly in the best interest for the future scientific research of both countries. Creating ties between mathematicians in our two communities, both young and old, will promote scientific cooperation far into the future.