REU Site: Data Science, Number Theory, and Positional Game Theory

REU 网站：数据科学、数论和位置博弈论

• 批准号: 1852001
• 负责人: James Brown
• 金额: $ 18万
• 依托单位: Occidental College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-03-01 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852001&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Data; Science; Number

Participating in research as an undergraduate is an important experience for students as they learn how to think deeply about problems that require them to synthesize material learned across many classes as well as specifically for the research project. Many undergraduates attend institutions that do not afford them the opportunity to participate in research. This project establishes a Research Experience for Undergraduates at Occidental College in Los Angeles. The site will host nine undergraduates each summer, split into teams of three, to work on research problems in data science, game theory, and number theory. An emphasis will be placed on recruiting a diverse group of participants in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic background, as well as type of undergraduate institution being attended. In addition to the research conducted, the mentors will work with the students to improve their public speaking skills and their technical writing skills. The mentors will conduct panels on ethics, graduate school, and career opportunities in mathematics. The program offers a blend of computational investigation with theoretical pursuit of open research problems in data science, number theory and positional game theory. The problems to be investigated in this REU fit into the faculty's own research programs and are at the cutting edge of these fields. As such, the results will be of interest to others in the field and often lead to peer reviewed journal publications. The goal of the program is to help students attain a higher level of independence in mathematical research by having them take part in significant and interesting research projects. The participants will learn what it is like to be a professional mathematician. They will be introduced to various tools, techniques and problems from data science, number theory, and game theory and will work on important and often difficult problems that are suitable for undergraduate work. The faculty have a history of interest in working with undergraduates and success in choosing problems at an appropriate level for undergraduate work. The participants will be able to begin investigations almost immediately on computational aspects of the project, giving them an opportunity to spend the entire time at Occidental working on meaningful research. Students will produce reports summarizing their research for the summer; these reports will be posted on an REU website that is to be developed. Upon departing the REU, they will continue to work with their faculty mentors to produce journal publications when appropriate as well as to attend conferences to present their results.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.

作为本科生参与研究对学生来说是一个重要的经历，因为他们学习如何深入思考问题，这些问题需要他们综合在许多课程中学到的材料，以及专门针对研究项目。 许多本科生就读的院校不给他们提供参与研究的机会。这个项目为洛杉矶的西方学院的本科生建立了一个研究经验。该网站每年夏天将接待9名本科生，分成三人一组，研究数据科学，博弈论和数论的研究问题。重点将放在招募不同群体的参与者在种族，民族，性别，社会经济背景，以及类型的本科院校出席。除了进行研究，导师将与学生合作，以提高他们的公开演讲技巧和技术写作技巧。 导师将进行小组道德，研究生院，并在数学的就业机会。该计划提供了计算研究与数据科学，数论和位置博弈论中开放研究问题的理论追求的融合。在这个REU要调查的问题适合教师自己的研究计划，并在这些领域的前沿。因此，研究结果将引起该领域其他人的兴趣，并经常导致同行评审的期刊出版物。该计划的目标是帮助学生通过参加重要而有趣的研究项目来实现更高水平的数学研究独立性。参与者将学习成为一名专业数学家是什么样的。他们将被介绍到各种工具，技术和问题，从数据科学，数论和博弈论，并将工作在重要的，往往是困难的问题，适合本科生的工作。该学院有兴趣与本科生合作的历史，并成功地选择了适当水平的本科生工作的问题。参与者将能够开始调查几乎立即在计算方面的项目，让他们有机会花整个时间在西方工作的有意义的研究。学生将制作报告总结他们的研究夏天;这些报告将被张贴在一个REU网站，是要开发。在离开REU后，他们将继续与他们的导师合作，在适当的时候制作期刊出版物，并参加会议以展示他们的成果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。