University of Wisconsin-Stout REU Site in Mathematics

威斯康星大学斯图特分校的数学、统计和计算机科学系将举办数学REU，在2012-2014年的每个暑假，8名学生将参加为期8周的暑期研究项目。这些项目的研究主题是使用计算工具来解决代数和分析中的几何问题。该计划将让学生参与研究，解决代数几何、复分析和几何群论中的公开问题。参与者将被分成两组，每组由四名学生和两名教师导师组成，一名常驻计算机科学教员为两组提供理论和实践计算机科学支持。这些项目的目的是让学生有很大的机会获得对他们的教师导师当前的研究很重要的结果和部分成果。这个REU的远大目标是：(1)增加第一代大学生对数学研究的参与，(2)激励这些学生继续研究生教育，(3)为参与者在研究生院取得成功做好准备。威斯康星大学斯图尔特分校所在的上中西部地区的许多大学都有很大比例的第一代学生，在这些学校，我们将专门招收合格的第一代学生，否则他们可能不会考虑进入研究生院或REU。我们将通过专业发展研讨会，以及参观行业和客座讲座，让参与者接触到广泛的可能的研究职业，为研究生院的参与者做好准备并激发他们的积极性。此外，还选择了研究项目，向学生介绍他们在研究生院会遇到但在本科学习中可能看不到的学科和工具。计划结束后，将与参与者保持沟通，以便撰写和发布所取得的成果，在国家和地区会议上展示成果，并在参与者开始其学术和职业生涯的下一阶段时担任他们的资源导师。

The Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Stout will host an REU in mathematics where 8 students will attend an 8 week summer research program during each of the summers of 2012--2014. The research theme for the projects is the use of computational tools to address geometric questions in algebra and analysis. The program will involve students in research that addresses open questions in algebraic geometry, complex analysis and geometric group theory. Participants will be organized into two groups consisting of four students and two faculty mentors each, with a resident computer science faculty member providing theoretical and practical computer science support to both groups. The projects have been designed to allow students a strong chance to achieve results and partial results that are important to the current research of their faculty mentors.Broader objectives of this REU are, (1) to increase the participation in mathematics research by first-generation college students, (2) to motivate these students to pursue graduate education, (3) to prepare participants to succeed in graduate school. Many universities throughout the upper Midwest region where UW-Stout is located have large percentages of first-generation students, and at these schools we will specifically recruit qualified first-generation students who may not otherwise consider attending graduate school or an REU. We will prepare and motivate participants for graduate school through professional development seminars in skills necessary for success in graduate school as well as visits to industry and guest lectures that will expose the participants to a broad range of possible research careers. Additionally, research projects have been selected that introduce students to subjects and tools that they will encounter in graduate school but that they may not see in their undergraduate work. After the program ends, communication will be maintained with participants for the purposes of writing up and publishing results obtained, presenting results at national and regional conferences and for serving as resource mentors for the participants as they begin the next phases of their academic and professional careers.