An Undergraduate Research Program in Combinatorics and Number Theory

该计划的目标是为全国最有才华的8名本科数学学生提供专业水平的研究经验，这是他们在本国机构或其他reu无法获得的。该计划提供了一个独特的研究社区的同龄人设置，强调发展每个学生的独立性。德卢斯大学的做法不是让学生们在一位对研究工作做出重大贡献的指导老师的指导下分组研究问题，而是对待那些具有极高研究潜力的本科生，就像他们在做一篇博士论文一样，指导老师提供问题和指导，但避免直接参与解决问题。该项目有35年的历史，旨在培养学生成为独立的、高水平的研究数学家，并在他们职业生涯的早期阶段将他们融入研究社区。该项目在知名专业研究期刊上发表了近200篇论文，培养了115名博士。人力资源的开发是德卢斯REU计划的明确目的。德卢斯计划为实现这一目标做出的最重要贡献是培养未来几代数学家，他们将在成为专业人士后促进本科研究。该计划的参与者成为杰出校友网络的一部分，这些校友是数学界的重要成员。德卢斯大学校友为美国的国家安全和经济竞争力做出了重大贡献。许多校友在拉霍亚和普林斯顿的通信中心（国防分析研究所的一个分支）工作，两名校友在国家安全局工作。项目的校友已经在微软、IBM、at&t、Facebook、Sun Microsystems、Dropbox、Ksplice、Quixey、Yelp和其他各种软件公司工作。其中三人已经创办了自己的公司。

The objective of the program is to provide a professional level research experience for eight of the nation's most talented undergraduate mathematics students that is not available at their home institutions nor other REUs. The program provides a unique research community-of-peers setting that emphasizes developing the independence of each student. Rather than having students work in groups on problems with a faculty adviser who contributes substantially to the research effort, at Duluth the approach is to treat undergraduate students with extraordinarily high potential for doing significant research as though they are working on a PhD thesis problem where the adviser provides the problem and mentoring but avoids direct involvement in solving the problem. The program has a 35 year history of developing students into independent, high level research mathematicians and integrating them into the research community at an early stage of their careers. The program has produced nearly 200 papers published in well regarded professional research journals and 115 PhDs. The development of human resources is the explicit purpose of the Duluth REU program. The most significant contribution the Duluth program makes towards that purpose is the training of future generations of mathematicians who will foster undergraduate research when they become professionals. Participants in the program become part of a network of extraordinary alumni who are important members of the mathematics community. Duluth REU alumni have substantially contributed to the national security and the economic competitiveness of the U.S. Many alumni have been employed at Center for Communications (a subdivision of the Institute for Defense Analyses) at La Jolla and Princeton and two are at the National Security Agency. Program alumni have been employed at Microsoft, IBM, AT&T, Facebook, Sun Microsystems, Dropbox, Ksplice, Quixey, Yelp, and a variety of other software companies. Three have started their own companies.