Workshops on Professional Master's Degree Programs in Mathematics

美国数学学会（AMS）、数学家与教育改革论坛（MER）和工业与应用数学学会（SIAM）这三个组织提议组织全国性研讨会，为各院系提供一个了解研究生学习建议和现有专业硕士学位课程的场所，并为规划和实施自己的专业硕士学位课程获得实用知识。来自35至40个数学系的约60名代表将参加这些讲习班。数学界正面临着检查和修改研究生教育的挑战，以满足与专业相关的数学基础扎实的个人的各种需求，并为具有高等数学学位的毕业生提供可行的就业途径。促进专业硕士学位项目的发展是解决这些问题的重要途径。通过以两个研讨会为中心的多方面计划，该项目将使数学系能够对研究生学习的挑战做出明智的回应，重点是帮助数学系规划和实施专业硕士学位课程，并开发资源来帮助这些部门进行这些努力。创建一个论坛，让各院系可以评估专业硕士学位课程在研究生教育中的一般问题方面的作用，使各院系能够加强他们的研究生课程。研讨会提供了一种建设性的方法来探索数学界在支持数学方面的更广泛作用，并在数学与数学是关键组成部分的学科和专业之间建立联系。研讨会讨论的发展专业硕士学位课程将在数学界得到广泛的曝光。为工作坊收集的资料，以及为参与部门开发的资源，将提供给数学界。讲习班的组织委员会包括三个合作组织的代表。

Three organizations, the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Mathematicians and Education Reform (MER) Forum, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), propose to organize national workshops to provide a venue for departments to become well-informed about recommendations for graduate studies and existing professional master's degree programs, and gain practical knowledge for planning and implementing their own professional master's degree program. Approximately 60 representatives from 35 to 40 departments of mathematical sciences will participate in the workshops. The mathematics community is being challenged to examine and revise graduate education to meet the needs of a variety of constituencies for individuals with strong foundations in the mathematics relating to their profession, and to provide viable employment paths for graduates with advanced degrees in mathematics. Promoting the development of professional master's degree programs is an important way to begin to address these concerns. Through a multifaceted program centered on two workshops, the project will enable mathematics departments to make informed responses to the challenges to graduate studies by focusing on helping mathematics departments in planning and implementing professional master's degree programs, and by developing resources to help departments in these efforts. Creating a forum in which departments can evaluate the role of professional master's degree programs with respect to the general issues in graduate education enables departments to strengthen their graduate programs. The workshops offer a constructive approach to explore a broader role for the mathematics community to support mathematics, and to form ties between mathematics and disciplines and professions in which mathematics is a crucial component. The workshop discussions on developing professional master's degree programs will be given broad exposure in the mathematics community. Information gathered for the workshop s, and the resources developed for the participating departments will be made available to the mathematics community. The organizing committee for the workshops includes representatives of the three cooperating organizations.