Mathematical Sciences: The Bryn Mawr-Spelman Summer Mathematics Program

布林莫尔-斯佩尔曼夏季数学项目是一个为期八周的夏季研究项目，面向来自布林莫尔、斯佩尔曼和地区学院的大一和大二女生，目的是发现并鼓励有才华的女性从事数学科学方面的职业。该项目将建立在过去三个夏天在布林莫尔大学进行的“pre-REU”项目的基础上，并以该项目为模型，并将补充斯佩尔曼大学的数学学者项目。八名学生将进行研究，其主要重点是使用计算机进行实验和探索；他们将得到刚开始攻读数学科学研究生课程的校友导师的帮助。该计划的其他特色包括每周关于数学研究和教学问题的圆桌讨论，学年期间在学生各自部门担任助教，参加全国AMS-MAA会议，鼓励参加REU或第二年夏天的暑期实习计划。并在决定上研究生院以及选择合适的研究生课程方面提供指导和建议。该暑期项目将在未来两年在布林莫尔学院举行。该项目建立和补充了布林莫尔学院和斯佩尔曼学院现有的本科项目，并加强了学院之间从1984年开始的交流项目。预计该项目将成为其他本科阶段早期干预和交流项目的典范。

The Bryn Mawr-Spelman Summer Mathematics Program is an eight-week summer research program for freshman and sophomore women from Bryn Mawr, Spelman, and area colleges, with the goal of identifying and encouraging talented women to pursue careers in the mathematical sciences. The program would build on and be modeled after a "pre-REU" program that has taken place at Bryn Mawr for the past three summers and would complement the Scholars in Mathematics Program at Spelman. Eight students would conduct research whose primary focus is experimentation and exploration using the computer; they would be aided by alumnae mentors who are just beginning graduate programs in the mathematical sciences. Other features of the program include weekly roundtable discussions on issues in mathematics research and teaching, employment as teaching assistants in the students' respective departments during the academic year, travel to a national AMS-MAA meeting, encouragement to participate in an REU or summer internship program the following summer, and mentoring and advice regarding the decision to attend graduate school as well as the choice of an appropriate graduate program. The Summer Program will be held for the next two years on the campus of Bryn Mawr College. The program builds on and complements existing undergraduate programs at both Bryn Mawr and Spelman Colleges and enhances an exchange program between the colleges that began in 1984. It is anticipated that this program would serve as a model for other early intervention and exchange programs at the undergraduate level.