REU Sites: DIMACS/DIMATIA U.S./Czech International REU Program

总部设在罗格斯大学的离散数学和理论计算机科学中心DIMACS将与设在捷克共和国布拉格查尔斯大学的离散数学、理论信息学和应用中心DIMATIA合作开展一项REU计划。该项目将为本科生提供令人兴奋的研究体验，帮助他们决定未来的教育和职业道路。每年将招收来自全美和捷克共和国的17名学生。大部分项目将在DIMACS进行，但一些美国学生将在DIMATIA停留一段时间，所有参与者都将体验到国际科学事业。该计划将包括一个试点的学术和工业联合指导计划，并将与DIMACS的国土安全部REU计划合作。重点学科包括图论、计算几何、逻辑和复杂性理论、组合优化，应用于DNA拓扑学、生物医学工程、流行病学建模、涉及电子商务的经济应用、海量数据集中的信息管理等。学生将接触到关于网络分析、传感器定位和互联网拍卖的现代工业研究，以及计算机科学和数学方法在国土安全方面的应用。该项目将通过增加美国和捷克研究人员和学生之间的科学合作产生更广泛的影响，并通过传播该模式，提高广大社区对年轻人在国际合作和协作中机会的认识。该项目还将包括职业咨询和如何发表演讲的指导，应该会对参与其中的学生关于继续教育和未来职业的选择产生很大影响。

DIMACS, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, headquartered at Rutgers University, will run an REU program in collaboration with DIMATIA, the Center for Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical Informatics, and Applications, based at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. This program will provide an exciting research experience for undergraduates that will help them decide on future educational and career paths. 17 students from all across the U.S. and from the Czech Republic will be recruited annually. Most of the program will take place at DIMACS, but some of the U.S. students will spend time at DIMATIA and all participants will get a taste of the international scientific enterprise. The program will include a pilot academic-industrial co-mentoring program and will collaborate with a Department of Homeland Security REU program at DIMACS. Scientific fields to be emphasized include graph theory, computational geometry, logic and complexity theory, and combinatorial optimization, with applications to DNA topology, biomedical engineering, epidemiological modeling, economic applications involving e-commerce, information management in massive data sets, etc. Students will be exposed to modern industrial research on network analysis, sensor location, and internet auctions, as well as to homeland security applications of methods of computer science and mathematics. The program will have broader impacts through increasing scientific collaborations between U.S. and Czech researchers and students and, through dissemination of the model, raise the awareness of a large community about opportunities for young people in international cooperation and collaboration. The program will also include career counseling and guidance on how to make presentations and should greatly influence the choices about further education and future careers of the students involved.