Graduate Education and Development: The GSMM Camp and MPI Workshop

建议：DMS-0707280PI：Schwendeman，Donald WInstitution：伦斯勒理工学院标题：研究生教育和发展：GSMM营和MPI研讨会摘要本建议描述了一个研究生教育和职业发展计划，包括研究生数学建模(GSMM)营和工业数学问题(MPI)研讨会。GSMM夏令营是每年6月举行的为期一周的会议，旨在促进解决问题和科学沟通的技能。在夏令营，研究生们在教师导师的指导下，团队合作，解决通常由工业应用启发的高度跨学科的问题。这些问题跨越了广泛的应用领域，并经过精心挑选，以促进广泛的问题解决技能。MPI研讨会在夏令营结束后的一周内举行，其焦点是来自行业代表带来的一系列问题。在研讨会上，来自夏令营的研究生加入了博士后和教职员工的行列，所有人都在团队中共同解决所提出的问题。虽然讲习班的总体组织类似于训练营，但侧重点不同。夏令营是研究生教育的载体，其目的是在解决问题和科学沟通技能方面增强实力。给夏令营带来的问题是为了挑战而不是压倒学生，并为研讨会上考虑的困难问题提供热身。讲习班还为研究生提供学习体验，但其主要目标是促进大学应用数学家与工业界科学家和工程师之间的联系。这两次会议相互补充，合并后的项目对研究生非常有价值，在美国特别是东北部的大学中是独一无二的。拟议的活动建立在首席调查员指导下已经实施的成功项目的基础上。最初的三个GSMM夏令营于2004年夏天在伦斯勒理工学院举行，第四个夏令营计划于2007年6月举行。这些夏令营吸引了100多名优秀的研究生，其中包括许多女性和来自美国和加拿大一流大学的学生。从2008年夏天开始，这笔赠款将用于支持组织和研究生参加另外三个全球管理和管理夏令营。由于这种支持，该项目将继续发展，并对研究生教育和发展产生广泛影响。夏令营和随后的讲习班既促进了数学的深度，也促进了理解和交流各种科学和工程领域的能力。因此，夏令营和研讨会的结合提供了宝贵的经验，对参与的研究生的跨学科研究工作产生了强烈的影响。活动的智力价值集中在夏令营和研讨会上所考虑的问题上。其中一些问题导致了后续研究和新的数学结果，预计这将继续是综合问题解决经验的结果。总而言之，该项目的目标是帮助建立一支更强大的应用数学家队伍，他们既擅长跨学科研究，又能够在科学和工程的各个领域进行有效沟通。

Proposal: DMS - 0707280PI: Schwendeman, Donald WInstitution: Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTitle: Graduate Education and Development: The GSMM Camp and MPI Workshop ABSTRACTThis proposal describes a program for graduate student education and career development consisting of the Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling (GSMM) Camp and the Mathematical Problems in Industry (MPI) Workshop. The GSMM Camp is a week-long meeting held annually in June and is designed to promote problem-solving and scientific communication skills. At the Camp, graduate students work together in teams, with the guidance of a faculty mentor, on highly interdisciplinary problems typically inspired by industrial applications. The problems span a wide range of areas of application and are carefully selected to promote a broad set of problem-solving skills. The MPI Workshop is held during the week following the Camp, and its focus is on a set of problems brought by representatives from industry. At the Workshop, the graduate students from the Camp are joined by postdocs and faculty, all working together in teams on the problems presented. While the general organization of the Workshop is similar to that of the Camp the emphasis is different. The Camp is a vehicle for graduate student education, whose aim is to build strength in problem-solving and scientific communication skills. The problems brought to the Camp are intended to challenge, but not overwhelm, the students, and to provide a warm up for the difficult problems considered at the Workshop. The Workshop also provides a learning experience for graduate students, but its primary goal is to promote links between applied mathematicians at universities and scientists and engineers in industry. The two meetings compliment each other, and the combined program is highly valuable for graduate students and unique amongst universities in the U.S., and in the northeast in particular.The proposed activity builds on a successful program already in place under the direction of the Principle Investigator. The first three GSMM Camps were held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute starting in the summer of 2004, and a fourth Camp is scheduled for June, 2007. These Camps have attracted over one hundred outstanding graduate students, including many women and students from underrepresented groups, from top-tier universities across the U.S. and Canada. The present grant will support the organization and graduate student participation in three more GSMM Camps beginning in the summer of 2008. As a result of this support, the program will continue to grow and to have a broad impact on graduate student education and development. The Camp, and the Workshop that follows, promote both depth in mathematics and the ability to understand and communicate across a variety of areas of science and engineering. Accordingly, the Camp-Workshop combination provides a valuable experience that has a strong impact on the interdisciplinary research efforts of the participating graduate students. The intellectual merit of the activity centers around the problems considered at the Camp and Workshop. Some of these problems have led to follow up research and new mathematical results, and it is expected that this will continue to be an outcome of the combined problem-solving experience. In sum, the aim of the program is to help build a stronger workforce of applied mathematicians who are both skilled in interdisciplinary research and are able to communicate effectively across a variety of areas of science and engineering.