IGERT: Geometry and Dynamics -- Integrated Education in the Mathematical Sciences

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖项支持布兰迪斯大学与新英格兰复杂系统中心(NECSI)合作开展的博士生跨学科培训计划。其目标是培养一批具有计算技能、智力灵活性和全球视野的数学科学家，以解决纯科学、应用科学和公共政策中的紧迫问题，这些问题需要复杂的数学、跨学科的方法。智力价值：基本粒子理论、量子引力、材料科学、认知的出现、疾病流行病学和经济预测中的基本问题都来自几何、复杂的经典和量子系统以及概率论中的一套常见的数学概念和技术。接受过各种数学技术培训的学生，在这些技术的应用方面接受过广泛的教育，在跨学科交流思想方面经验丰富，将能够最好地应对需要高级数学、复杂的建模和大型数据集管理的新的科学问题。因此，IGERT计划将包括：通过跨学科研究轮换的实践经验；跨学科课程工作；学生以外的联合顾问？这些活动包括：国际教育、科学、文化和科学研究所举办的暑期强化班；IGERT系列研讨会；以及在印度班加罗尔国际理论科学中心实习的机会。更广泛的影响：学生将学习通过公开讲座、Brandeis Science Posse计划和Acton Discovery Center与潜在的理科学生和公众交流他们的工作。IGERT是一个NSF范围的计划，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、选定学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports an interdisciplinary training program for Ph.D. students at Brandeis University, carried out in partnership with the New England Center for Complex Systems (NECSI). The goal is to create a group of mathematical scientists with the computational skills, intellectual flexibility, and global perspective needed to attack pressing problems in pure science, applied science, and public policy that require a mathematically sophisticated, interdisciplinary approach. Intellectual Merit: Fundamental problems in the theory of fundamental particles, quantum gravity, the science of materials, the emergence of cognition, disease epidemiology, and economic forecasting all draw from a set of common mathematical concepts and techniques in geometry, complex classical and quantum systems, and probability theory. Students trained in a variety of mathematical techniques, broadly educated in the applications of these techniques, and experienced in communicating their ideas across disciplines will best be able to respond to new scientific problems whose solution requires advanced mathematics, sophisticated modeling, and the management of large data sets. The IGERT program will therefore include: hands-on experience through interdisciplinary research rotations; interdisciplinary coursework; co-advisors outside of the students? discipline; intensive NECSI-led summer institutes; an IGERT seminar series; and the opportunity for internships at the International Center for the Theoretical Sciences in Bangalore, India. Broader Impacts: Students will learn to communicate their work to prospective science students and the public via public lectures, the Brandeis Science Posse program, and the Acton Discovery Center.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.