IGERT-CIF21: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Research and Training in Network Science

这项综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖为加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的博士生提供了基于对现有网络中衍生的大型数据集的分析，设计更高效、更强大的经验网络的技能。通过训练学生检查多种类型的网络，如遗传，经济和社会网络，该计划旨在推进网络科学领域。智力优势：这个实习计划是由七个研究生系（计算机科学、通信、生态学、进化与海洋生物学、电子与计算机工程、地理、机械工程和社会学）合作的，它将使学员学习计算方法来设计、控制、测量和预测大型网络的动态。通过这个项目？在网络科学实验室，学员将参加以团队为基础的模块，并获得软件、经验数据集和跨学科科学的实践经验。此外，学员还将参加每周一次的研讨会、暑期实习、讲习班和一个专注于解决问题和创造性思维的创新项目。更广泛的影响：通过为学生提供网络科学的跨学科培训，该项目将推动网络科学的新兴领域，并将成为全国类似学术项目的典范。此外，该项目旨在从加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的本科生以及四所合作机构（加州州立大学圣贝纳迪诺分校、加州州立大学洛杉矶分校、加州大学默塞德分校和新墨西哥大学）招募、留住和指导70%的女性和代表性不足的少数族裔学生，这些机构都是西班牙裔服务机构。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该项目旨在建立研究生教育和培训的新模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，让学生了解研究转化为社会效益创新的过程。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award provides Ph.D. students at the University of California at Santa Barbara with the skills to design more efficient and robust empirical networks based on their analyses of large data sets derived from existing networks. By training students to examine multiple types of networks, such as genetic, economic, and social networks, this program aims to advance the field of Network Science. Intellectual Merit: This traineeship program is a collaboration among seven graduate departments (Computer Science, Communication, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Geography, Mechanical Engineering, and Sociology), which will enable trainees to learn computational methods to engineer, control, measure, and predict the dynamics of large networks. Through the program?s Network Science Laboratory, trainees will participate in team-based modules and obtain hands-on experience with software, empirical data sets, and interdisciplinary science. Additionally, trainees will participate in weekly seminars, summer internships, workshops, and an innovation program focused on problem solving and creative thinking.Broader Impacts: By providing students with interdisciplinary training in Network Science, this program will advance the emerging field of Network Science and will serve as a model for similar academic programs across the nation. Moreover, this program aims to recruit, retain, and mentor 70% women and underrepresented minority students from University of California at Santa Barbara undergraduates as well as students from four partner institutions: California State University at San Bernardino, California State University at Los Angeles, University of California at Merced, and University of New Mexico, all of which are Hispanic Serving Institutions. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, and to engage students in understanding the processes by which research is translated to innovations for societal benefit.