MCTP: Mathematics Mentoring Partnership Between Arizona State University and the Maricopa County Community College District

该项目将为亚利桑那州马奎拉县社区学院的数学天才学生开发一个招聘网络，以帮助他们成功过渡到亚利桑那州州立大学（ASU）的数学科学学士学位课程。 这个项目，除了服务于学生在凤凰城地区，将作为一个模型，为其他地方的大学希望实施一个成功的过渡计划，为社区大学的学生在数学科学。 斯科茨代尔社区学院将提供暑期充实课程，向学生介绍集合论和证明、数学金融和生物学以及计算机图形学等主题。 一个为期8周的夏季研究经验将在亚利桑那州立大学提供合格的数学科学专业，包括从夏季计划在斯科茨代尔校友，提供专业前的经验，使他们的职业竞争力和选择性的研究生课程和相关的奖学金在数学科学。 此外，亚利桑那州立大学数学系将开发“项目研讨会”课程，在学年期间提供，有关天气预报和大气动力学的数学问题;图像处理和傅立叶分析;网络动力学和图论;和癌症的数学模型（特别是脑癌和前列腺癌）。该奖项旨在为本科数学专业的学生提供机会，作为跨学科问题团队的一部分;阅读期刊文章，快速获得新主题的一些背景知识;使用计算机模拟作为发现工具分析开放式问题;亚利桑那州立大学拥有美国最大的本科数学系之一，在美国的节目。 这个为期5年的试点项目将每年吸引大约38名在马塞诸塞县社区学院有数学天赋的学生和亚利桑那州立大学的12名数学专业学生。 它旨在为社区学院和四年制院校之间的其他伙伴关系提供一个国家模式，以增加接受数学和科学计算高级培训的本科生人数。 将特别努力招收第一代大学生以及女生和/或数学学科代表性不足群体的成员。 所有学生将是美国公民或永久居民。

This project will develop a recruitment network for mathematically talented students in community colleges in Maricopa County, Arizona, to help facilitate their successful transitions to baccalaureate programs in the mathematical sciences at Arizona State University (ASU). This project, in addition to serving students in the Phoenix area, will serve as a model for universities elsewhere hoping to implement a successful transition program for community college students in the mathematical sciences. Summer enrichment programs will be offered at Scottsdale Community College that will introduce students to topics in set theory and proofs, mathematical finance and biology, and computer graphics. An 8-week summer research experience will be offered at ASU to qualified mathematical science majors, including alumni from the summer program at Scottsdale, to provide pre-professional experience to make them competitive for careers and selective graduate programs and associated fellowships in the mathematical sciences. In addition, ASU mathematics faculty will develop "project seminar" courses, to be offered during the academic year, on mathematical problems related to weather prediction and atmospheric dynamics; image processing and Fourier analysis; network dynamics and graph theory; and mathematical models of cancer (especially brain and prostate cancer). This award is designed to provide opportunities to undergraduate mathematics majors to work as part of a team on an interdisciplinary problem; read journal articles to gain some background on a new subject quickly; analyze open-ended problems using computer simulation as a discovery tool; and present a talk or poster on their work at an appropriate workshop or research conference.Arizona State University has one of the largest undergraduate mathematics programs in the United States. This 5-year pilot project will engage approximately 38 mathematically talented students in the Maricopa County community colleges and 12 mathematics majors at ASU each year. It seeks to provide a national model for other partnerships between community colleges and 4-year institutions to increase the number of undergraduate students with advanced training in mathematics and scientific computation. Special efforts will be made to recruit students who are first-generation college students as well as students who are female and/or members of underrepresented groups in the mathematical sciences. All student participants will be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.