Computer Workstation Laboratory for Undergraduate Mathemat- ics-Computer Science Majors

该项目将支持为数学和计算机科学专业的本科生建立一个计算机实验室，并结合组合学和应用逻辑课程。它是由仪器和实验室改进（ILI）计划资助的，该计划的目标是支持开发新的或改进的基于仪器的科学，数学或工程本科实验课程的项目。仪器和实验室改进计划为美国高校实施本科教学改进所需的仪器提供配套支持。特别是，这个项目的主要目标是：1)提供一个计算环境，它支持数值分析中经常遇到的快速、大规模的计算，并允许使用符号代数和函数语言包；2)让学生熟悉专业人士在实际研究和应用领域经常使用的工具和方法。

This project will support the establishment of a computing laboratory for undergraduate majors in mathematics and computer science in conjunction with courses in combinatorics and applied logic. It is being funded under the Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement (ILI) Program, which has the goal of supporting projects to develop new or improved instrument-based undergraduate laboratory courses in science, mathematics, or engineering. The Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Program provides matching support for the instrumentation necessary to implement undergraduate instructional improvements at U.S. colleges and universities. In particular, the main objectives of this project are to 1) provide a computing environment which supports the fast, large- scale computations of the type regularly encountered in numerical analysis and which allows the use of symbolic algebra and functional language packages; and 2) to acquaint students with the tools and methods used regularly by professionals in the world of real research and applications.