IGERT: Program in Nonlinear Systems

这一综合性研究生教育与研究培训(IGERT)奖将支持建立一个多学科的非线性系统研究生培训计划，强调在自然和工程系统分析中找到表达的常见数学和理论想法。这项活动是来自康奈尔大学航空航天工程、农业和生物工程、应用和工程物理、生物计量学、化学工程、经济学、电气工程、地质科学、管理学、数学、机械工程、神经生物学和行为学、运筹学和工业工程、物理学、生理学以及理论和应用力学系的36名科学家和工程师的共同努力。加入他们的还有来自摩根士丹利、纽约州立大学健康科学中心、洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室、佐治亚理工学院、惠普和博伊斯-汤普森研究所的科学家、工程师和商业学者。这组学者的成员已经建立了研究合作；他们的集体专门知识将为在该奖项的五年任期内培训一支由大约60名研究生组成的多样化干部提供智力基础。参加IGERT活动的博士生将被康奈尔大学现有的研究生领域录取，并将学习一门为期两个学期的综合非线性科学课程，其中包括确定性和随机数学方法，并探索在不同学科中的应用。这些学生还必须完成各自领域的博士要求，辅修不同领域的辅修课程，参加每周的座谈会和研讨会，并根据需要在实验室、医院、华尔街公司或工业环境中完成暑期实习。该计划的目标是教育学生流利地掌握几个学科和理论方法，所有这些都与非线性现象的主题有关。IGERT是一个新的NSF范围内的项目，旨在促进创新的、以研究为基础的研究生项目的建立，这些项目将培训不同的科学家和工程师群体，为充分利用广泛的职业选择做好准备。IGERT为博士机构提供了一个机会，以开发新的、重点明确的、超越组织边界的多学科研究生课程，并团结来自几个系或机构的教师，为培训和研究建立一个高度互动、协作的环境。在该计划的第一年，将为17个机构提供支持，这些机构的新项目或新生项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award will support the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program in Nonlinear Systems that emphasizes common mathematical and theoretical ideas that find expression in the analysis of natural and engineering systems. This activity is a joint effort of thirty-six scientists and engineers from the Departments of Aerospace Engineering, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Applied and Engineering Physics, Biometry, Chemical Engineering, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Geological Sciences, Management, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Neurobiology and Behavior, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Physics, Physiology, and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University. Joining them are scientists, engineers, and business scholars from Morgan Stanley, SUNY Health Science Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, Hewlett-Packard, and the Boyce-Thompson Institute. Members of this group of scholars have established research collaborations; their collective expertise will provide the intellectual underpinning for the training of a diverse cadre of some sixty graduate students over the five-year tenure of the award. Doctoral students in this IGERT activity will be admitted to one of Cornell's existing Graduate Fields and will take an integrated two-semester course in nonlinear science that includes both deterministic and stochastic mathematical methods, and explore applications in various disciplines. These students must also complete the PhD requirements in their respective fields, take a minor in a different field, attend weekly colloquia and seminars, and complete a summer internship in a laboratory, hospital, Wall Street firm, or industrial setting as appropriate. The goal of the program is to educate students to be fluent in several disciplines and theoretical methodologies, all of which bear on the theme of nonlinear phenomena. IGERT is a new, NSF-wide program intended to facilitate the establishment of innovative, research-based graduate programs that will train a diverse group of scientists and engineers to be well-prepared to take advantage of a broad spectrum of career options. IGERT provides doctoral institutions with an opportunity to develop new, well-focussed multidisciplinary graduate programs that transcend organizational boundaries and unite faculty from several departments or institutions to establish a highly interactive, collaborative environment for both training and research. In this first year of the program, support will be provided to seventeen institutions for new or nascent programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.