REU Sites: Cornell's Summer REU Program in Mathematics

每年夏天，12名本科生将在康奈尔大学数学系参加一个为期8周的研究项目，由3名教员(首席调查员R.Strichartz和从现任和前任系成员中挑选的其他2人)指导，并由研究生和博士后协助。学生们将致力于他们掌握的研究项目，这些项目为新发现提供了真正的机会，这些发现将对数学界有价值。预计部分(但不是全部)研究将导致发表论文。课程将强调两种类型的专题：1)与计算机相关的研究，学生编写程序或使用现有的软件，在分形学、自由概率、微分方程的动力学和遗传学的概率模型等领域进行实例分析、猜想和实验；2)不需要大量背景知识的组合学和其他领域的问题。此外，学生们还将通过向彼此和公众发表演讲来获得交流数学的经验。网站：www.math.cornell.edu/Underly/REU/

Each summer, 12 undergraduate students will participate in an 8 week research program in the Cornell University Mathematics Department directed by 3 faculty members (the Principal Investigator, R. Strichartz, and 2 others chosen from among current and former department members) and assisted by graduate students and postdocs. The students will work on research projects that are within their grasp,and which present real opportunities for new discoveries that will be of value to the mathematical community. It is expected that some, but not all, of the research will lead to published papers. Two types of projects will be emphasized: 1) computer related research, with students writing programs, or using existing software, to work out examples, generate conjectures, and perform experiments in areas such as analysis on fractals, free probability, dynamics of differential equations, and probabilistic models in genetics; 2) problems in combinatorics and other areas that do not require a great deal of background knowledge. In addition, the students will gain experience in communicating mathematics by presenting talks to each other and to the public.Website: www.math.cornell.edu/Undergraduate/REU/