NAM/MSU Undergraduate MATHFest Conference

全国数学家协会的MATHFest是一个旨在让少数族裔服务机构(主要是HBCU)的本科生数学科学专业的学生有机会进入研究生院学习，并让他们获得数学科学职业机会的会议。MATHFest 2010将于11月18日至20日在佛罗里达州迈阿密的迈阿密戴德学院举行。会议的主要目标是：-通过鼓励少数民族学生获得数学科学高级学位来解决少数民族数学家短缺的问题--提供榜样--为本科生提供演讲的机会--让学生熟悉研究生院--让学生意识到数学科学中的职业机会。为了实现这些目标，MATHFest提供本科生报告、研究生教师小组、研究生小组、工业数学家小组，以及被称为聚焦数学家的非正式会议。参加会议的学生中有来自大约四分之一的HBCU的数学科学方面的优秀学生。小型机构将有比例较小的数学课程，让数学学生在校园里处于孤立的境地。因此，这些机构每年毕业一到两个数学专业。在这个会议上，来自这些学校的学生将看到大约120名学生在做同样的事情，处于相似的情况。

The National Association of Mathematians' MATHFest is a conference designed to expose undergraduate mathematical science majors from minority serving institutions, primarily HBCUs, to the possibility of attending graduate school and exposing them to career opportunities in the mathematicalsciences. MATHFest 2010 will be at Miami Dade College in Miami, FL on November 18-20. The main goals of the conference are:-- To address the shortage of minority mathematicians by encouraging minority students to get advanced degrees in the mathematical sciences-- Provide role models-- Give the undergraduate students an opportunity to make a presentation-- Familiarize the students with graduate schools-- Make the students aware of career opportunities in the mathematical sciencesTo achieve these goals, MATHFest offers undergraduate presentations, a graduate faculty panel, a graduate student panel, an industrial mathematician panel, and an informal session called spotlight on a mathematician. Among the conference attendants are high achieving students in the mathematical sciences from about a fourth of the HBCUs. Small institution will have proportionally small mathematics programs, leaving mathematics students in an isolated situation on their campuses. Hence, these institutions graduate one or two mathematics majors a year. The conference is a time when students from these schools will see approximately 120 students that are doing the same things and are in similar situations.