Mathematics Mini-courses for Students at the 2004 SACNAS Conference

该项目包括两个数学迷你课程，将于2004年10月21日至24日在得克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的2004年科学促进奇卡诺人和美洲土著人会议（SACNAS）的数学活动的一部分。 每个迷你课程将包括四个一小时的讲座，加上两个小时的问题解决/讨论会议。每门课程将由两名教师进行：一名建立了数学家，具有出色的研究，指导和教学记录，以及一名在开展杰出的研究和教学计划时表现出卓越的指导能力的初级教师。迷你课程的主题是“编码理论”和“生物信息学中的数学方法”。"每门微型课程的目的是让大量少数民族学生（高年级本科生和研究生）接触应用数学或纯数学的一个主题，特别强调解决问题的不同方法，以及与数学其他领域或其他学科的联系。 此外，目的是达到一个点时，有可能成长为研究生研究项目的开放问题，可以在上下文中说明的迷你课程。这是为了鼓励学生继续读研究生，并通过让他们意识到，即使在这个阶段，他们也能够理解激励问题的来源来增强他们的信心。

This project includes two mathematics mini-courses to be part of an enhanced group of mathematics activities at the 2004 Conference of the Society for Advancement of Chicano and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) to be held on October 21-24, 2004 in Austin, Texas. Each mini-course will consist of four one-hour lectures plus up to two more hours of problem solving/discussion sessions. Each course will be conducted by two faculty members: an established mathematician with an excellent record of research,mentoring and teaching, and a junior faculty member who has demonstrated exceptional mentoring ability while carrying out an outstanding research and teaching program. The mini-course topics will be "Coding Theory" and "Mathematical Methods in Bioinformatics."The purpose of each mini-course is to expose a large number of minority students (advanced undergraduates and graduate students) to a topic in applied or pure mathematics with particular emphasis on diverse approaches to problems, and connections to other areas of mathematics or other disciplines. In addition, the aim is to reach a point in the mini-courses when open problems that have the potential to grow into graduate research projects can be stated in context. This is designed to encourage students to continue on to graduate school and boost their confidence by making them realize that, even at this stage, they are able to understandwhere the motivating questions come from.