IGERT: Institutions, Diversity, Emergence, Adaptations and Structures (IDEAS)

密歇根大学（University of Michigan）和圣达菲研究所（Santa Fe Institute）是研究复杂适应性系统的两家领先机构，它们正在联合组织和支持一个面向对制度绩效和设计感兴趣的社会科学家的IGERT研究生项目。课程的分析核心借鉴了多个学科：经济学、政治学、计算机科学、物理学和社会学。重点将放在不同主体的集合在其相互作用受到正式和非正式制度约束时如何表现和适应。学生研究人员将研究正式制度如何适应和应对，非正式制度如何出现，制度之间和制度内部的关系结构如何影响绩效和稳健性，以及文化、社会、经济和行为多样性何时以及如何对制度产生影响。该项目将设在密歇根大学，但学生将有机会参观圣达菲研究所一个学期。IDEAS IGERT将通过研讨会、研究助学金、跨学科课程以及与教员的互动，使学生成为这两所大学社会科学研究界的活跃成员。IDEAS的学生还将与STIET（另一个由NSF赞助的UM的IGERT）的学生一起参加课程和研讨会。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足培养具有多学科背景和技术，专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，以满足未来职业需求。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第五年，奖项将颁发给21个机构，这些机构的项目共同跨越了NSF支持的科学和工程领域。

The University of Michigan and The Santa Fe Institute, two leading institutions in the study of complex adaptive systems, are jointly organizing and supporting an IGERT graduate program for social scientists interested in institutional performance and design. The analytic core of the curricula borrows from multiple disciplines: economics, political science, computer science, physics, and sociology. The emphasis will be on how collections of diverse agents behave and adapt when their interactions are structured by formal and informal institutional constraints. Student researchers will study how formal institutions adapt and respond, how informal institutions emerge, how the structure of relationships between and within institutions affects performance and robustness, and when and how cultural, social, economic and behavioral diversity matter for institutions. The program will be housed at the University of Michigan but students will have the opportunity to visit the Santa Fe Institute for a semester. The IDEAS IGERT will enable students to become active members in the social science research communities at both institutions through seminars, research assistantships, interdisciplinary courses, and interactions with faculty. IDEAS students will also take courses and attend seminars with students enrolled in STIET (another NSF sponsored IGERT at UM).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.