IGERT-CIF21: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Research and Training in Network Science

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖提供博士学位。加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的学生，他们具有设计更有效和更强大的经验网络的技能，这些网络是基于他们对来自现有网络的大型数据集的分析。通过训练学生检查多种类型的网络，如遗传，经济和社交网络，该计划旨在推进网络科学领域。智力优势：该培训计划是七个研究生部门（计算机科学，通信，生态学，进化海洋生物学，电气计算机工程，地理学，机械工程和社会学）之间的合作，这将使学员能够学习计算方法来设计，控制，测量和预测大型网络的动态。通过项目？的网络科学实验室，学员将参加以团队为基础的模块，并获得软件，经验数据集和跨学科科学的实践经验。此外，学员还将参加每周一次的研讨会、暑期实习、工作坊以及一个专注于解决问题和创造性思维的创新项目。更广泛的影响：通过为学生提供网络科学的跨学科培训，该项目将推动网络科学这一新兴领域的发展，并将成为全国类似学术项目的典范。此外，该计划旨在招募，保留和指导70%的妇女和代表性不足的少数民族学生从加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的本科生以及学生从四个合作机构：加州州立大学圣贝纳迪诺分校，加州州立大学洛杉矶分校，加州大学默塞德分校，和新墨西哥州，所有这些都是西班牙裔服务机构。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在为研究生教育和培训建立新的模式，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造肥沃的环境，并让学生了解研究转化为创新以造福社会的过程。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award provides Ph.D. students at the University of California at Santa Barbara with the skills to design more efficient and robust empirical networks based on their analyses of large data sets derived from existing networks. By training students to examine multiple types of networks, such as genetic, economic, and social networks, this program aims to advance the field of Network Science. Intellectual Merit: This traineeship program is a collaboration among seven graduate departments (Computer Science, Communication, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Geography, Mechanical Engineering, and Sociology), which will enable trainees to learn computational methods to engineer, control, measure, and predict the dynamics of large networks. Through the program?s Network Science Laboratory, trainees will participate in team-based modules and obtain hands-on experience with software, empirical data sets, and interdisciplinary science. Additionally, trainees will participate in weekly seminars, summer internships, workshops, and an innovation program focused on problem solving and creative thinking.Broader Impacts: By providing students with interdisciplinary training in Network Science, this program will advance the emerging field of Network Science and will serve as a model for similar academic programs across the nation. Moreover, this program aims to recruit, retain, and mentor 70% women and underrepresented minority students from University of California at Santa Barbara undergraduates as well as students from four partner institutions: California State University at San Bernardino, California State University at Los Angeles, University of California at Merced, and University of New Mexico, all of which are Hispanic Serving Institutions. 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 establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, and to engage students in understanding the processes by which research is translated to innovations for societal benefit.