IGERT: A Joint Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and the Earth & Environmental Sciences

哥伦比亚大学正在设立一个新的、多个系的研究生项目，方向是应用数学和地球与环境科学。这一新的IGERT联合计划的目标是培养新一代科学家，他们的数学复杂程度将大大高于目前从地球和环境科学专业毕业的典型学生，同时，他们对地球和环境科学中的重要问题和重大开放研究问题的熟悉程度将远远超过通常预期的在应用数学系接受独特培训的学生。为了实现这一目标，哥伦比亚大学的五个系--数学、统计学、应用物理与应用数学、地球与环境科学、地球与环境工程--在哥伦比亚地球研究所的协调作用下，将在这一新的IGERT联合项目下合作培养研究生。虽然IGERT联合项目的学生将被每个系单独录取，但他们的进展将由与联合项目相关的教职员工指导委员会监督。除了满足他们被录取的系的要求外，联合计划的所有学生都将参加一个新的综合两学期的应用数学课程，该课程专门针对全球环境科学中的问题和问题而量身定做，预计将在数学和地球科学课程中获得最低学分。此外，他们将参加由联合计划组织的每周一次的座谈会，每年一次向联合计划的教职员工和其他附属于联合计划的学生正式介绍他们的研究成果，参加一系列特别的特邀讲座，协助指导本科生，并在研究生培训期间在研究机构、国家实验室或工业研究中心完成为期一年的暑期实习。IGERT是一项NSF范围的计划，旨在应对培养具有多学科背景以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第五年，将向21个机构颁发奖项，这些机构的项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的科学和工程领域。

Columbia University is establishing a new, multi-departmental graduate program in Applied Mathematics and the Earth & Environmental Sciences. The aim of this new IGERT Joint Program is to train a new generation of scientists whose level of mathematical sophistication will be considerably higher than that of typical students currently graduating from earth and environmental science programs and, at the same time, whose familiarity with the important issues and major open research questions in the earth and environmental sciences will be much deeper that what is usually expected of students trained uniquely within applied mathematics departments. To achieve this goal, five departments at Columbia - Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Earth & Environmental Engineering - under the coordinating role of the Columbia Earth Institute, will collaboratively train graduate students under this new IGERT Joint Program. While students in the IGERT Joint Program will be individually admitted by each department, their progress will be monitored by a Steering Committee of faculty associated with the Joint Program. In addition to satisfying the requirements of the departments into which they are admitted, all students in the Joint Program will take a new integrated two-semester sequence in Applied Mathematics specifically tailored to issues and problems in the global environmental sciences, and will be expected to earn a minimum number of credits in both mathematical and earth science courses. In addition, they will be expected to attend a weekly colloquium organized by the Joint Program, give a formal presentation of their research results once a year to the faculty and other students affiliated with the Joint Program, attend special series of invited lectures, assist in the mentoring of undergraduates, and complete a one summer internship during their graduate training at a research institution, national laboratory, or industrial research center.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the fifth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.