Recruitment and Mentoring in Mathematics Program

这笔赠款将运行在数学程序（RAMMP）程序招聘和辅导，与增加的学生人数从代表性不足的群体进入数学科学博士课程的目的。在三年的时间里，10名高级本科生将分成团队，参加数学方面的暑期研究项目。学生将在积极，支持的同龄人社区中发展他们对数学的兴趣。该项目将在以学生多样性而闻名的纽约城市大学（City University of New York）开展，并将让有才华的学生接触数学研究和相关活动，这些活动构成了博士生的日常工作，但许多本科生从未体验过。这一经验与指导和社区建设活动贯穿全年，将鼓励学生参与者追求更高的学位和职业生涯中的数学科学。研究问题将从参与该计划的教师的领域，包括数论，组合数学，代数，动力系统和几何选择。这些问题将有一个重要的计算组件，并将被选择，以便即使部分学生的进步将推进他们的教师导师的长期研究议程。导师将选择可访问的开放性问题，其解决方案将导致发现新现象或具有广泛适用性的新证明技术。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant will run a Recruitment and Mentoring in Mathematics Program (RAMMP) program, with the purpose of increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups entering doctoral programs in mathematical sciences. For three years, ten advanced undergraduate students will divide into teams and engage in mentored summer research projects in mathematics. The students will develop their interests in mathematics in an active, supportive community of peers. The program will be run at the City University of New York, an institution known for its student diversity, and will expose talented students to mathematical research and related activities, which form the daily work of a doctoral student but which many undergraduates never experience. This experience together with mentorship and community building activities continuing throughout the year will encourage the student participants to pursue higher degrees and careers in the mathematical sciences.Research problems will be selected from the fields of faculty members participating in the program including Number Theory, Combinatorics, Algebra, Dynamical Systems, and Geometry. The problems will have a significant computational component and will be chosen so that even partial student progress will advance the long-term research agendas of their faculty mentors. Mentors will choose accessible, open questions whose resolution would lead to the discovery of new phenomena or new proof techniques with broad applicability.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.