Mathematical Sciences: Summer Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (SIMS) at Berkeley

伯克利数学科学暑期研究所 位于伯克利的加州大学提议开发和运营数学科学暑期研究所（西姆斯），这是一个为期6周的数学天才女本科生课程。西姆斯提供24名妇女，在全国范围内选择，与密集的数学课程，旨在激励和准备他们进入并成功完成博士学位。 数学科学中的程序。 西姆斯旨在为参与者提供数学体验，让他们体验数学科学研究人员的感受，并向学生传达女性可以而且应该从事数学工作。在该计划的核心是四个研讨会，两个在纯数学和应用数学。每个研讨会都由一名妇女领导，她是一名活跃的研究数学家和一名有才华的教师。她由一名数学专业的女研究生助教协助。学生参加两个研讨会，一个是纯粹的，一个是应用的。这项工作的性质是非常不同的，这是遇到典型的本科数学课程。学生们沉浸在研讨会材料中，在没有教科书的帮助下发现和证明结果，他们被赋予许多困难的问题和项目，他们学习如何在谈话和写作中获得和表达数学思想。除了研讨会，数学座谈会每周举行两次。在这些讲座中，著名的数学家向学生介绍了数学主题的广阔全景。还有小组讨论：申请研究生院和奖学金来源，各种研究生课程可在数学科学，非学术职业的数学，以及妇女面临的挑战作为研究生和专业人员在数学科学。

The Summer Institute for the Mathematical Sciences at Berkeley The University of California at Berkeley proposes to develop and operate the Summer Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (SIMS), a 6-week program for mathematically talented undergraduate women. SIMS provides 24 women, selected nationwide, with an intensive mathematics program that is designed to motivate and prepare them to enter and complete successfully a Ph.D. program in the mathematical sciences. SIMS aims to provide participants with a mathematical experience that will give them a taste of what it is to be a researcher in the mathematical sciences, and it aims to communicate to the students that women can and should be doing mathematics. At the heart of the program are four seminars, two each in pure and applied mathematics. Each seminar is led by a woman, selected nationwide, who is an active research mathematician and a talented teacher. She is aided by a teaching assistant who is a female graduate student in mathematics. The students take two seminars, one pure and one applied. The character of the work is very different from that which is encountered in typical undergraduate mathematics courses. Students immerse themselves in the seminar material to discover and prove results without the aid of textbooks, they are given many hard problems and projects, and they learn how to obtain and express mathematical ideas in conversation and in writing. In addition to the seminars, mathematics colloquia are held twice weekly. In these talks, well-known mathematicians introduce the students to a vast panorama of mathematical topics. There are also panel discussions on: applying to graduate school and fellowship sources, the variety of graduate programs available in the mathematical sciences, non-academic careers in mathematics, and the challenges women face as graduate students and as professionals in the mathematical sciences.