REU Site: CAAR: Combinatorial Algorithms Applied Research

这笔资金将在马里兰大学帕克分校建立一个新的CISE本科生研究经验（REU）站点。本网站专注于组合算法的研究，这些算法适用于离散对象，如数字、图形或数据，需要在可能的解决方案空间上进行优化。为了帮助创造一种氛围，让学生学习新技术，理解一些现实世界的问题，并致力于设计和实现算法，学生将参与应用算法研究项目，这些项目将由UMD理论小组成员与不同研究领域（如系统，人工智能和数据库）的教师共同建议。这个REU网站每年将为8名本科生提供10周的支持。该网站将招收计算机科学、计算机工程和数学专业的学生，重点招收来自传统黑人学院和女子学院的学生。该网站将有助于弥合理论与实践之间的差距，这将使理论家受益，因为它为理论家提供了新的和令人兴奋的问题，并为非理论家提供了他们可以使用的工具。学生们将有机会看到研究是什么样的，在算法方面获得坚实的基础，并鼓励他们去读研究生。

This funding will establish a new CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of Maryland-College Park. This Site focuses on research in combinatorial algorithms, which are algorithms that work on discrete objects such as numbers, graphs, or data where one needs to optimize over a space of possible solutions. To help create a climate in which students learn new techniques, understand a few real world problems, and work on designing and implementing algorithms, the students will be involved in applied algorithms research projects that will be jointly advised by members of the UMD theory group in conjunction with faculty in different research areas, such as systems, artificial intelligence, and databases.This REU Site will support eight undergraduate students for ten weeks each year. The Site will recruit computer science, computer engineering, and mathematics majors, with a focus on students from Historically Black Colleges and Women's colleges. The Site will help bridge the gap between theory and practice, which will benefit both as it gives theorists new and exciting problems and non-theorists tools they can use. The students will have the opportunity to see what research is like, obtain a solid grounding in algorithms, and encourage them to go to graduate school.