REU Site: CAAR: Combinatorial Algorithms Applied Research

这笔资金将在马里兰大学学院公园建立一个新的CEISE本科生研究体验(REU)网站。这个网站专注于组合算法的研究，这是一种在离散对象(如数字、图形或数据)上工作的算法，需要在可能的解空间中进行优化。为了帮助学生创造一个学习新技术、了解一些现实世界问题以及设计和实现算法的环境，学生们将参与到应用算法研究项目中，这些项目将由UMD理论小组成员与不同研究领域的教师共同提供建议，如系统、人工智能和数据库。这个REU网站每年将支持8名本科生10周。该网站将招收计算机科学、计算机工程和数学专业的学生，重点是来自历史悠久的黑人学院和女子学院的学生。该网站将帮助弥合理论与实践之间的鸿沟，这将使理论家和非理论家都受益，因为它为他们提供了新的令人兴奋的问题和他们可以使用的工具。学生们将有机会了解研究是什么样子，获得坚实的算法基础，并鼓励他们去读研究生。

This funding will establish a new CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of Maryland-College Park. This Site focuses on research in combinatorial algorithms, which are algorithms that work on discrete objects such as numbers, graphs, or data where one needs to optimize over a space of possible solutions. To help create a climate in which students learn new techniques, understand a few real world problems, and work on designing and implementing algorithms, the students will be involved in applied algorithms research projects that will be jointly advised by members of the UMD theory group in conjunction with faculty in different research areas, such as systems, artificial intelligence, and databases.This REU Site will support eight undergraduate students for ten weeks each year. The Site will recruit computer science, computer engineering, and mathematics majors, with a focus on students from Historically Black Colleges and Women's colleges. The Site will help bridge the gap between theory and practice, which will benefit both as it gives theorists new and exciting problems and non-theorists tools they can use. The students will have the opportunity to see what research is like, obtain a solid grounding in algorithms, and encourage them to go to graduate school.