Canada/USA Mathcamp: Research in Pairs and Scholarships for Students

加拿大/美国数学营：结对研究和学生奖学金

• 批准号: 1242617
• 负责人: Moon Duchin
• 金额: $ 7.66万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1242617&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Canada; USA; Mathcamp; Research; Pairs

Canada/USA Mathcamp is an intensive five-week summer program for mathematically talented high school students. Every year, Mathcamp brings together 110-120 exceptional teenagers from the United States, Canada, and around the world, and creates an environment where they can "live and breathe mathematics". Both intellectually and socially, it is a life-changing experience for many of these students, most of whom have never had a true peer group before coming to Mathcamp. The program takes place on a different college campus each summer; working mathematicians are recruited from across all specialties (and ranging from postdocs to superstar researchers) to visit for a week and participate in the mathematics instruction. Access to working mathematicians at Mathcamp helps meet an intellectual need for the students, many of whom do not have the mathematical resources at home to pursue their interests.This award has two components. The first component of the award is a "Research in Pairs" program, which will support visits to Mathcamp by pairs of mathematical collaborators. In addition to teaching a class, these visitors will work on their research during their stay, with two main goals: (1) achieving progress on research, and (2) making the production of new mathematics visible to our students. The second component of the award provides scholarships for U.S. students from target outreach groups (girls, underrepresented minorities, and students from underrepresented communities of origin, economically disadvantaged backgrounds or underperforming schools). Taken together, the two components of this award will allow talented students from target outreach groups to interact with role models engaged in active research at Mathcamp.

加拿大/美国Mathcamp是一个针对有数学天赋的高中生的为期五周的暑期强化课程。每年，Mathcamp都会汇集来自美国、加拿大和世界各地的110-120名优秀青少年，为他们创造一个“活在数学中，呼吸数学”的环境。无论是在智力上还是在社交上，这对许多学生来说都是一次改变人生的经历，他们中的大多数人在来Mathcamp之前从未有过真正的同伴团体。该项目每年夏天在不同的大学校园进行；从各个专业（从博士后到超级巨星研究人员）招募工作数学家来参观一周并参与数学指导。在Mathcamp接触工作中的数学家有助于满足学生的智力需求，他们中的许多人在家里没有数学资源来追求他们的兴趣。这个奖项有两个组成部分。该奖项的第一个组成部分是“配对研究”计划，该计划将支持数学合作者成对访问Mathcamp。除了授课之外，这些访客还将在逗留期间从事他们的研究工作，主要有两个目标：(1)取得研究进展；(2)向我们的学生展示新数学的成果。该奖项的第二个部分为来自目标群体的美国学生提供奖学金（女孩、未被充分代表的少数民族、来自未被充分代表的原籍社区、经济弱势背景或表现不佳学校的学生）。总的来说，这个奖项的两个组成部分将允许来自目标外展群体的有才华的学生与Mathcamp积极研究的榜样互动。