U.S.-Czech Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

罗伯特在美国国家科学基金会本科生研究经验项目（REU）的基本框架内，这项美国-捷克合作项目支持来自美国和捷克共和国的有限的学生交换。美国的组织者是罗格斯大学离散数学和理论计算机科学中心（DIMACS）的Fred S. Roberts。他的同行是布拉格查尔斯大学离散数学、理论计算机科学和应用中心（DIMATIA）的Jaroslav Nesetril。计划中的REU本科生项目：1)以组合学、逻辑和复杂性理论以及计算几何为特色；2)包括美国和捷克的教师导师，他们监督初级参与者的指导学习和研究。该奖项允许三次国际REU会议，分别于1999年、2000年和2001年夏季举行。双方分担成本。Roberts、Nesetril和指定的教师项目协调员将共同管理一个以diacs为基础的国际REU项目，该项目将容纳5名美国学生，为期9周。为了促进项目定义和研究启动，配对导师和学生在每次REU会议之前通过互联网开始交流。在九周的前六周，捷克教师和两名捷克学生参加了罗格斯大学DIMACS的国内RUE项目。接下来，五名通过竞争被选中参加这一国际“本科生研究经历”的美国学生将与DIMACS导师一起前往布拉格，在DIMACS主持的项目阶段度过三周时间。在那里，美国参与者与捷克的导师和学生同行一起完成预定的项目，参加辅导课程以及一个特别的仲夏研讨会。结果应该产生一些共同撰写的科学论文，适合科学会议的学生报告，以及潜在的长期专业网络。这项美国-捷克本科生交换项目的总体目的是为REU鼓励数学、科学和工程方面的职业选择的项目的长期目标增加一个国际层面。成功将意味着这些年轻参与者的未来职业生涯将通过接触国外卓越的研究成果和早期在日益全球化的研究企业中合作的经验得到加强。这样的本科生国际研究经验，以两个卓越中心为基础，通过使美国和中欧的专家能够结合互补的人才，在共同感兴趣和能力强的领域分享研究和教育资源，实现了推进科学知识的计划目标。

INT 9817956RobertsThis U.S.-Czech cooperative effort supports a limited exchange of students from the United States and the Czech Republic within the basic context of the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (REU). The U.S. organizer is Fred S. Roberts of Rutgers University's Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS). His counterpart is Jaroslav Nesetril of Charles University's Center for Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Applications (DIMATIA) in Prague. The planned REU program for undergraduate students: 1) features combinatorics, logic and complexity theory, and computational geometry and 2) involves U.S. and Czech faculty mentors who oversee junior participant's directed study and research. This award permits three international REU sessions, one held each summer during 1999, 2000 and 2001. Both sides share costs.Collaboratively, Roberts, Nesetril, and appointed faculty program coordinators will manage a DIMACS-based international REU program that accommodates five U.S. students for a total of nine weeks. To facilitate project definition and research initiation, paired mentors and students begin communication via Internet prior to each REU session. During the first six of nine weeks, Czech faculty and two Czech students participate at the Rutgers site in DIMACS' domestic RUE program. Next, five U.S. students who have been selected competitively for this international "research experience for undergraduates," go with the DIMACS mentor to spend three weeks in Prague for the DIMATIA-hosted phase of the program. There the U.S. participants join Czech mentors and student counterparts to work on predetermined projects and attend tutorials as well as a special midsummer workshop. Results should produce a number of jointly authored scientific papers, student presentations suitable for scientific meetings, and potentially long-lasting professional networks. The overall intent of this U.S.-Czech undergraduate exchange is to add an international dimension to the standing objectives for REU programs which encourage career choices in math, science and engineering. Success will mean that the future careers of these junior participants are enhanced by exposure to research excellence abroad and early experience with collaboration in an increasingly global research enterprise.Such international research experience for undergraduates, anchored by two centers of excellence, fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Central Europe to combine complementary talents and share research and education resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence.