REU Site: Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation at Ohio Wesleyan University

该奖项支持俄亥俄卫斯理大学本科生研究体验(REU)网站与教师研究体验(RET)部分的整合。每位学生(教师)将在俄亥俄卫斯理大学一名经验丰富的教职员工的指导下进行为期十周(六周)的研究项目：天文学、计算机科学、数学/统计和物理。所有项目都关注科学计算的一个或多个方面：数值、符号和数据可视化。研究项目的一个重要目标是让参与者意识到计算技术跨越学科界限的能力，即有效地解决许多不同科学研究领域中感兴趣的问题。每周举行一次会议，各个研究小组将在会上提交进展报告，所有参与者将能够讨论项目，在参与者中培养社区意识，并指出计算技术在解决不同学科问题方面的优势。该大学最近购买了一个机架安装的Beowulf集群，供参与者在他们的项目中使用，并将提供一个研讨会，专门介绍集群建设、运营和使用背后的基本理念。在研究期结束时，将举行一次研究专题讨论会，供与会者介绍他们的成果。俄亥俄州的其他文理学院将被邀请参加研讨会。每一次介绍都将被记录下来，并上传到区域教育联盟的网站上，以便向更广泛的世界传播。此外，还鼓励参加的学生和教师在专业科学学会的区域和国家会议上展示他们的成果。我们强烈鼓励代表不足的群体，包括少数族裔和研究机会很少的小型学院和大学的学生申请，高中教师也是如此，他们有能力鼓励代表不足的群体的学生学习科学。该奖项由物理和数学科学司以及数学和物理科学局多学科活动办公室共同资助。

This award supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site to be integrated with a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) component at Ohio Wesleyan University. Each student (teacher) participant will work on a ten-week (six-week) research project under the guidance of an experienced Ohio Wesleyan University faculty member in one of the following disciplines: astronomy, computer science, mathematics/statistics, and physics. All projects focus on one or more aspects of scientific computation: numerical, symbolic, and data visualization. An important goal of the research projects is to make participants aware of the ability of computational techniques to cross disciplinary boundaries, i.e. to be effective at solving problems of interest in many different fields of scientific inquiry. Weekly meetings, in which individual research groups will give progress reports and where all participants will be able to discuss the projects, foster a sense of community among the participants and point out the strengths of computational techniques to tackle problems in varying disciplines. A rack-mounted Beowulf cluster, purchased recently by the university, will be available for participants to use on their projects, and a workshop devoted to the basic ideas behind the construction, operation, and use of the cluster will be offered. A research symposium will be held at the end of the research period for participants to present their results. Other Ohio liberal arts colleges will be invited to participate in the symposium. Each presentation will be recorded and uploaded to the REU website for dissemination to the wider world. In addition, participating students and teachers are encouraged to present their results at regional and national conferences of professional scientific societies. Underrepresented groups, including minorities and students from small colleges and universities with little research opportunities are strongly encouraged to apply, as are high school teachers who are in a position to encourage students from underrepresented groups to study science. This award is co-funded by the Divisions of Physics and Mathematics Sciences and by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.