REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Research (SUMaR) at K-State

REU 网站：堪萨斯州立大学暑期本科生数学研究 (SUMaR)

• 批准号: 1262877
• 负责人: Marianne Korten
• 金额: $ 34.62万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1262877&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Summer; Undergraduate; Mathematics

During 8 weeks in the summer, 12 students will work on open research problems, satisfactory solution of which would involve results publishable in standard journals. SUMaR has established a track-record of identifying such problems, which nevertheless are accessible to undergraduates. Problems are offered in areas including number theory, analysis, PDEs, quantum computing, and mathematical modeling. All project mentors have established (and except for postdoctoral fellows, well-established) programs of research related to the proposed undergraduate research projects. The vast majority including the PI and co-PI have extensive experience in mentoring undergraduate research, and those lacking this will be mentored in mentoring by the PI and co-PI. Besides research, the project will involve student participants in a variety of mathematical and professional development activities - including math subject GRE preparation; introduction to computational, typesetting, and presentation software commonly used in mathematics; a talk about how to prepare effective talks for different audiences; a panel on graduate school in mathematics; a panel on NSF graduate scholarships and semester long off-campus programs; and social activities, many joint with other REUs. Each year, half of the participants will be female, half will be either minority, students who started out at a community college, or students belonging to another group identified by the McNair program (first generation in college or economically disadvantaged background). Outreach to veterans of the U.S. Armed Services will be made through the grantee institution's Office of Veterans Affairs. Efforts will be made to select students from small regional public and private colleges without a graduate or Ph.D. program in mathematics.

在夏季的8周时间里，12名学生将完成公开的研究问题，令人满意的解决方案将涉及可在标准期刊上发表的结果。SUMaR已经建立了识别此类问题的跟踪记录，但本科生可以访问这些问题。问题提供的领域包括数论，分析，偏微分方程，量子计算和数学建模。所有项目导师都已经建立了（博士后除外）与拟议的本科生研究项目相关的研究计划。包括PI和co-PI在内的绝大多数人在指导本科生研究方面有丰富的经验，那些缺乏经验的人将由PI和co-PI指导。除了研究之外，该项目还将涉及学生参与各种数学和专业发展活动-包括数学科目GRE准备；介绍数学中常用的计算、排版和表示软件；关于如何为不同的听众准备有效的演讲；数学研究生院专题小组；一个关于NSF研究生奖学金和学期校外项目的小组；和社会活动，许多与其他reu联合。每年，一半的参与者将是女性，一半将是少数民族，在社区大学开始的学生，或者属于麦克奈尔项目确定的另一个群体的学生（第一代大学生或经济弱势背景）。与美国武装部队退伍军人的联系将通过受资助机构的退伍军人事务办公室进行。政府将努力选拔没有数学研究生或博士学位的小规模地方公立大学和私立大学的学生。