REU Site: Interdisciplinary Program in High Performance Computing

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助的。马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校的数学和统计系将为八名学生举办一个REU网站。这个REU网站将激发数学、统计或计算机科学专业有才华的学生对(I)高性能计算、(Ii)其在跨学科研究中的应用以及(Iii)提供关键专业技能的综合培训的兴趣。REU活动将包括为期三周的科学、统计和并行计算强化教学，不同背景的参与者之间进行大量交叉培训。接下来的七周包括来自应用领域的项目的团队合作，由来自行业、政府机构或其他学术部门的专业人员指导。此外，在项目阶段，我们将提供综合的专业发展，包括与自己学术专业内外的同行和专业人员的互动，项目和团队管理基础，向导师和其他团队提供非正式的口头进度报告，技术报告和期刊文章的科学技术写作技能，通过视觉辅助的正式演示技巧，学术诚信和道德，以及通过GRE预备课程为研究生做准备，以及其他受项目和学生需求驱动的主题。科学、统计和并行计算技能对21世纪的劳动力至关重要。在团队和跨学科项目中进行互动和沟通的技能也同样重要。REU将在两名PI/共同PIs和两名研究生助理的指导下提供综合这些要素的课程，他们都具有丰富的经验，由学生通过跨学科研究和咨询中心(www.humc.edu/circ)提供以客户为中心的跨学科咨询。通过利用密歇根大学S通过其迈耶霍夫计划、少数族裔就业机会计划、信息技术女性中心、科学与工程女性中心和其他项目建立的广泛人脉，我们致力于创建一支在性别、种族/民族背景、学术专业和技能集方面多元化的学生队伍，以确保研究团队获得强大的协同经验。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Marlyand-Baltimore County will host an REU site for eight students. This REU Site will ignite the interest of talented students majoring in mathematics, statistics, or computer science in (i) high performance computing, (ii) its use in interdisciplinary research, and (iii) will provide integrated training in crucial professional skills. The REU activities will include three weeks of intensive instruction in scientific, statistical, and parallel computing, with significant cross training between participants with different backgrounds. The following seven weeks consist of team work on projects from application areas mentored by professionals from industry, government agencies, or other academic departments. Also during the project phase, we will provide integrated professional development on subjects including interaction with peers and professionals from within and outside of own academic major, project and team management basics, informal verbal progress reports to mentor and other teams, technical writing skills in the sciences for technical reportsand journal articles, formal presentation techniques with visual aids, academic integrity and ethics, and graduate school preparation through a GRE preparation course, among other topics driven by project and student needs.Scientific, statistical, and parallel computing skills are critical to the 21st century workforce. Equally crucial are skills in interacting and communicating in teams and in interdisciplinary projects. This REU will provide a comprehensive program integrating these elements under the guidance of the two PI/co-PIs and two graduate assistants, all of whom have extensive experience with client-focused interdisciplinary consulting provided by students through the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting (www.umbc.edu/circ). By leveraging UMBC?s extensive connections through its Meyerhoff Program, Minority Access to Research Careers Program, Center for Women in Information Technology, Women in Science and Engineering, and other programs, we are committed to creating a student cohort that is diverse in gender, racial/ethnic background, academic major, and skill set, in order to ensure powerful experiences of synergies in the research teams.