CIRCLE: Catalyzing and Integrating Research, Collaboration, and Learning in Computing, Mathematics, and their Applications

DIMACS关于促进和整合计算、数学及其应用的研究、协作和学习的项目为计算机科学和相关数学和统计领域的大量研究人员和教育工作者以及他们在生物、化学、物理、工程、公共卫生、商业和社会科学等领域的合作者提供了一个资源。该项目加强和鼓励强调基本方法和理论的项目，以推进计算机科学和相关数学，同时也鼓励它们在有可能影响社会所依赖的基础设施和资源领域的应用，包括医疗保健、环境可持续性、国土安全、信息安全、能源和商业。该项目还反映了DIMACS教育的重要性，并致力于建立和支持社区，促进进入并促进保留和成功的计算学科。该合同部分支持实现项目目标所需的DIMACS中心基础设施。该项目支持的基础设施每年将直接惠及大约2000人，并通过他们惠及其他许多人。该项目支持的研究项目围绕特别重点项目组织，包括研讨会、研究研讨会小组、教程和访客计划，主题包括网络安全；信息共享与动态数据分析算法与能量；可持续性;机器学习的理论基础与可扩展性卫生和医学信息学；加密技术;偏好、意见、推荐和比较分析。教育项目整合了从大学预科到博士后的各级研究和教育，包括广泛的本科生研究经验项目；在全国各地的卫星地点为2年级和4年级的大学教师开设了一个“重新连接”项目，重点介绍与课堂相关的最新研究课题；为初中和高中教师举办的全年培训班；以及在生物数学、计算思维和可持续性规划等领域开发课堂材料。当学生掌握计算思维技能时，与教育领域的研究人员的联系增强了对认知机制的理解，从而创造了促进教学和加强学习的研究信息材料。一些DIMACS项目使用多层指导模式为学生提供指导，同时向他们灌输指导的能力，既提高了他们自己的技能，又为下一代的计算和计算相关职业建立了激情。

The DIMACS Project on Catalyzing and Integrating Research, Collaboration, and Learning in Computing, Mathematics, and their Applications provides a resource for a large community of researchers and educators in computer science and related mathematical and statistical areas as well as their collaborators in fields such as biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, public health, business, and the social sciences. The project enhances and encourages programs that emphasize fundamental methods and theory to advance computer science and related mathematics while also encouraging their application in areas with the potential to impact the infrastructure and resources society depends on, including healthcare, environmental sustainability, homeland security, information security, energy, and business. The project also reflects the importance of education at DIMACS and works to build and support communities that facilitate entry into and promote retention and success in computing disciplines. This award partially supports the DIMACS Center infrastructure required to achieve project goals. The programs enabled by the infrastructure this project supports will directly reach an estimate of roughly 2000 people each year, and through them, many others.Research programs enabled by the project are organized around special focus programs consisting of workshops, research workshop groups, tutorials, and a visitor program, on topics including Cybersecurity; Information Sharing and Dynamic Data Analysis; Algorithms and Energy; Sustainability; Theoretical Foundations and Scalability of Machine Learning; Health and Medical Informatics; Cryptography; and Analytics of Preference, Opinion, Recommendation, and Comparison. Educational programs integrate research and education across levels from precollege through postdoctoral via activities including an extensive Research Experiences for Undergraduates program; a Reconnect program run at satellite locations around the country for 2-year and 4-year college faculty highlighting recent research topics relevant to the classroom; a year-round program of workshops for middle and high school teachers; and development of classroom materials in areas including bio-mathematics, computational thinking, and planning for sustainability. Connections with researchers in education enhance understanding of the cognitive mechanisms at play when students master computational thinking skills, allowing creation of research-informed materials that facilitate teaching and enhance learning. Several DIMACS programs use multi-layer mentoring models for providing mentoring to students while instilling in them the capacity to mentor, both enhancing their own skills and serving to build excitement for computing and computing-related careers in the next generation.