Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges' Summer Mathematics Program

卡尔顿学院和圣奥拉夫学院的数学教师计划为16名有才华的女大学生继续他们为期四周的暑期数学强化课程。该项目将由活跃的专业数学家和优秀的教师组成。学生们将沉浸在数学中，在一个充满热情学习和研究数学的女学者（本科生、研究生和研究生）的支持社区中生活和工作。该项目的目的有三个方面：激发这些年轻女性对数学和数学事业的兴趣，为她们提供在数学事业中取得成功所需的工具，并将她们与女性数学家同行联系起来。过去的卡尔顿/圣。奥拉夫夏季数学课程，通过参与者的课程后评估来衡量，成功地实现了所有这些目标。学生将在工作日上午参加两门课程，由女教师和助教带领。在每一节课上，学生将被介绍到微积分以外的数学领域，这些领域是学生在标准的本科数学课程中通常没有机会学习的。过去这些课程的主题包括代数编码理论、图论、低维动力系统和泛函分析。通过这些课程和作业，学生将有机会提高他们的猜想和证明能力，以及书面和口头陈述的技能。学生不会获得这些课程的学分或分数，而是教师对他们的表现和成就的书面评估。娱乐问题的解决，关于学生继续学习的话题的讨论（作为数学专业的成功，职业选择，选择和幸存的研究生课程，以及成为一名女科学家），以及关于令人兴奋的数学领域的讨论会将完成他们的经历。

Mathematics faculty from Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges plan to continue their intensive four-week summer mathematics program for sixteen talented undergraduate women. The program will be staffed by mathematicians who are active professionals and outstanding teachers. The students will immerse themselves in mathematics, living and working in a supportive community of women scholars (undergraduates, graduates, and post-graduates) who are passionate about learning and doing mathematics. The program's intent is threefold: to excite these young women about mathematics and mathematical careers, to provide them with the tools they will need to succeed in a mathematical career, and to connect them to a network of fellow female mathematicians. The past Carleton/St. Olaf Summer Mathematics Programs, as measured by the participants' post-program evaluations, were successful in achieving all of these goals.Students will attend two courses which meet on weekday mornings and are led by female instructors and teaching assistants. In each of the classes, the students will be introduced to fields of mathematics beyond calculus that students usually do not have the opportunity to study in a standard undergraduate mathematics program. Topics for these courses in the past have included algebraic coding theory, graph theory, low-dimensional dynamical systems, and functional analysis. Through these courses, and the homework assigned in them, the students will have the opportunity to improve their skills in conjecture and proof and written and oral presentation. Students will not receive course credit for, or grades in, these courses, but rather written evaluations of their performance and accomplishments from the instructors. Recreational problem solving, discussions on topics pertaining to the students' continued scholarship (succeeding as a math major, career options, choosing and surviving a graduate program, and being a woman scientist), and colloquia on exciting areas of mathematics will complete their experience.