REU Site: Probability, Combinatorics, and Graph Theory

NSF的本科生研究经验（REU）计划的目标是让现场领导者将本科生参与者从一个相对依赖的地位，作为一个研究人员，作为独立的地位，因为他们的能力保证。 该站点的项目总监Anant Godbole将在项目的每个阶段将此作为指导原则，就像他在过去18年中担任REU站点总监一样。 在东田纳西州立大学，八名来自不同背景和学校的本科生将在2010年、2011年和2012年的夏天与两名小学或高中教师一起工作，并在概率论、统计学或离散数学方面进行原创性研究。 他们的工作将酌情在全国首屈一指的年度数学会议上发表，一半的工作预计将发表在同行评审的数学或统计杂志上。 为学生选择的研究问题将是当代的;困难但易于处理;更广泛的数学界感兴趣;并导致更多的问题与每一个成功证明的新结果。 因此，学生将得到什么样的研究是真正的味道，并能够作出明智的决定，至于他们是否应该追求研究事业。我们的国家正面临着最严重的危机，在科学，技术，工程，数学（STEM）教育自1950年以来。 确保STEM教育的多样性，加强K-12教师在内容领域的培训，并保证各级STEM专业人员的稳步增长是国家至关重要的三个领域。 有见及此，我们会致力吸纳更多少数族裔学生参加，并维持1：1的性别比例，从不同学校挑选学生，让REU学生与校园内参加其他NSF项目的学生建立共生关系（特别是NSF-STEP和NSF-诺伊斯方案，这两个方案都是通过2009年《美国复苏和再投资法》获得大量资金的方案）;并让K-12教师参与认真的研究，他们可以用这些研究来激励课堂上的学生，主要是在高贫困地区。 可以拨打423-534-6209或godbolea@etsu.edu与阿南特·戈德博尔联系。 有关REU网站信息的网址（URL）为www.etsu.edu/cas/math/activities/reu.aspx。

The goal of NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program is for site leaders to take undergraduate participants from a relatively dependent status, as a researcher, to as independent a status as their abilities warrant. The Project Director at this site, Anant Godbole, will use this as a guiding principle at every stage of the program, as he has during the past eighteen years as an REU site director. At East Tennessee State University, eight undergraduate students from a diverse set of backgrounds and schools will work alongside two elementary or high school teachers in the summers of 2010, 2011, and 2012, and conduct original research in probability theory, statistics, or discrete mathematics. Their work will be presented, as appropriate, at the premier annual mathematics conference in the nation, and half of the work is expected to be published in a peer reviewed mathematics or statistics journal. The research problems selected for the students will be contemporary; difficult but tractable; of interest to the wider mathematical community; and lead to more questions with every successfully proven new result. Consequently, students will get a taste of what research is really like, and be able to make an informed decision as to whether they ought to pursue research careers.Our nation is facing the most serious crisis in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education since the 1950's. Ensuring diversity in STEM education, enhancing K-12 teacher training in content areas, and guaranteeing a steady increase in STEM professionals at all levels are three areas of critical national importance. With this in mind, we will strive to recruit more minority participants than in the past; maintain the gender ratio at 1:1 as before; select students from a diverse set of schools; have REU students develop a symbiotic relation with students participating in other NSF Programs on campus (particularly the NSF-STEP and NSF-Noyce Programs both of which were recipients of significant funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009); and have K-12 teachers involved in serious research that they may use to inspire students in their classrooms, mostly in high poverty districts. Anant Godbole may be contacted at 423-534-6209 or at godbolea@etsu.edu. The web address (URL) for information about the REU Site is www.etsu.edu/cas/math/activities/reu.aspx.