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

DIMACS项目关于催化和整合计算、数学及其应用领域的研究、协作和学习，为计算机科学和相关数学和统计领域的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。该项目加强和鼓励那些强调基本方法和理论的项目，以促进计算机科学和相关数学的发展，同时也鼓励它们在可能影响社会所依赖的基础设施和资源的领域应用，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DIMAC教育的重要性，并致力于建立和支持社区，以促进进入并促进在计算学科中的保留和成功。该奖项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支持的计划每年将直接影响到大约2000人，并通过他们，还有其他许多人。该项目支持的研究计划围绕着特别关注的计划组织，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；信息共享和动态数据分析；算法和能源；可持续性；机器学习的理论基础和可扩展性；健康和医学信息学；密码学；以及偏好分析、意见、推荐和比较。教育项目通过以下活动整合了从大学预科到博士后各个层面的研究和教育：面向本科生的广泛研究体验计划；在全国各地的卫星地点运行的两年和四年制大学教师重新连接计划，突出与课堂相关的最新研究主题；针对初中和高中教师的全年研讨会计划；以及开发生物数学、计算思维和可持续发展规划等领域的课堂材料。与教育研究人员的联系加强了对学生掌握计算思维技能时所起作用的认知机制的理解，从而能够创造出有助于教学和提高学习效果的研究材料。几个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能力，既增强了他们自己的技能，又有助于在下一代建立对计算和计算相关职业的兴奋。

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.