REU Site at UT Tyler

这笔赠款为德克萨斯大学泰勒分校的REU网站提供了资金。这项为期8周的课程将在2014年、2015年和2016年的夏季进行。每年夏天，9名REU学生将以三人一组的形式工作，每组由一名教师导师领导。导师将提供组合学中有关词、网络可靠性和化学图论的研究问题。每个小组将在计划的第一周学习与其研究领域有关的基本理论。他们将生成例子并提出猜想。在课程进行到一半时，学生们将为他们的猜想寻找证据。REU的学生将以专业格式撰写他们的结果，并准备最后的演讲和海报，适合在1月份的联合数学会议上展示。REU的目标是向学生介绍数学研究，帮助他们为攻读数学博士学位做准备并鼓励他们攻读博士学位。调查人员认为，这一计划将产生更大的影响，从代表不足的群体中招收学生，特别是西班牙裔、女性和第一代大学生。除了日常研究外，REU参与者还将参加目前就读于研究生院的前研究生院学生和其他当地教师的讲座。他们将有机会询问有关研究生院和学术生涯的问题。学生们将保持每天的研究日记，他们将学习数学排版。REU项目经过精心挑选，以便于接受过校样写作基本培训的本科生使用，但有可能产生新的结果。结果将在国家会议上公布。预计一些项目将在同行评议的期刊上发表文章。

This grant funds the REU site at the University of Texas at Tyler. The 8-week program will take place in the summers of 2014, 2015, and 2016. Each summer, nine REU students will work in groups of three with one faculty mentor leading each group. The mentors will provide research questions in combinatorics on words, network reliability, and chemical graph theory. Each group will spend the first weeks of the program learning basic theory pertaining to their research area. They will generate examples and formulate conjectures. During the middle of the program students will seek proofs of their conjectures. REU students will write their results in a professional format and prepare a final talk and a poster suitable for presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January.The goal of the REU is to give students an introduction to mathematical research that will help prepare them for and encourage them to pursue PhDs in mathematics. The investigators believe that this program will have a greater effect by recruiting students from underrepresented groups; in particular, Hispanics, women, and first-generation college students. In addition to daily research, REU participants will attend talks by former research students who are currently enrolled in graduate school and by other local faculty. They will have the opportunity to ask questions about graduate school and academic careers. Students will keep a daily research journal, and they will learn mathematical typesetting. The REU projects have been carefully chosen to be accessible to undergraduates with basic training in proof writing, but with the potential to produce novel results. The results will be presented at national conferences. It is expected that some projects will result in publications in peer-reviewed journals.