REU Site: An Undergraduate Research Program in Combinatorics and Number Theory

杜卢斯REU计划的目标是为全国最有才华的本科数学学生提供专业水平的研究经验，这种经验在他们的家乡机构或其他雷乌斯都无法获得。该计划提供了一个独特的研究社区的同行设置，强调发展每个学生的独立性。与其让学生与对研究工作有实质性贡献的教师顾问一起小组研究问题，在杜卢斯的方法是对待本科生非常高的潜力，做重要的研究，好像他们正在研究博士论文的问题，顾问提供的问题和指导，但避免直接参与解决问题。该计划有38年的历史，培养学生成为独立的，高水平的研究数学家，并在他们职业生涯的早期阶段将他们融入研究社区。该计划已经产生了200多篇论文发表在备受推崇的专业研究期刊和133博士。人力资源的开发是杜卢斯REU计划的明确目的。 最显着的贡献，杜卢斯计划使实现这一目的是培养未来几代数学家谁将促进本科研究时，他们成为专业人士。该计划的参与者成为杰出校友网络的一部分，他们是数学界的重要成员。其中包括普林斯顿大学（菲尔兹奖赢家和美国国家科学院院士）、麻省理工学院（共3所，其中一所拥有基金会主席和美国科学促进会成员）、斯坦福大学、芝加哥、伯克利、哥伦比亚、康奈尔、加州大学圣地亚哥分校和西北大学的终身教职人员。其中10人是美国数学学会会员。杜卢斯REU校友为美国的国家安全和经济竞争力做出了重大贡献许多校友已在拉霍亚和普林斯顿的通信中心（国防分析研究所的一个分支）工作，其中两人在国家安全局工作。该计划的校友曾受雇于谷歌，微软，IBM，AT T，Facebook，Sun Microsystems，Dropbox，Ksplice，菜ey，Yelp，Khan Academy和其他各种软件公司，其中三家已经成立了自己的公司。

The objective of the Duluth REU program is to provide a professional level research experience for nine of the nation's most talented undergraduate mathematics students, an experience that is not available at their home institutions nor at other REUs. The program provides a unique research community-of-peers setting that emphasizes developing the independence of each student. Rather than having students work in groups on problems with a faculty adviser who contributes substantially to the research effort, at Duluth the approach is to treat undergraduate students with extraordinarily high potential for doing significant research as though they are working on a PhD thesis problem where the adviser provides the problem and mentoring but avoids direct involvement in solving the problem.The program has a 38 year history of developing students into independent, high level research mathematicians and integrating them into the research community at an early stage of their careers. The program has produced over 200 papers published in well regarded professional research journals and 133 PhDs. The development of human resources is the explicit purpose of the Duluth REU program. The most significant contribution the Duluth program makes towards that purpose is the training of future generations of mathematicians who will foster undergraduate research when they become professionals. Participants in the program become part of a network of extraordinary alumni who are important members of the mathematics community. Among them are people who are tenured, or on tenure track, at Princeton (Fields medal winner and member of the National Academy of Sciences), MIT (3 total, one with an endowed chair and a member of AAAS), Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, UC San Diego and Northwestern. Ten are American Mathematical Society Fellows. Duluth REU alumni have substantially contributed to the national security and the economic competitiveness of the U.S. Many alumni have been employed at the Center for Communications (a subdivision of the Institute for Defense Analysis) at La Jolla and Princeton and two are at the National Security Agency. Program alumni have been employed at Google, Microsoft, IBM, AT&T, Facebook, Sun Microsystems, Dropbox, Ksplice, Quixey, Yelp, Khan Academy, and a variety of other software companies, and three have started their own companies.