REU Site: Team Research in Computational and Applied Mathematics (TRiCAM)

计算与应用数学团队研究（TRiCAM）REU计划旨在为学生提供现实世界协作解决问题的经验，挑战他们应用数学和计算来解决哈佛教师和工业合作伙伴提出的团队项目。 项目将涉及机器学习，数据分析和数值模拟等计算和数学工具的应用，以解决地球科学，医学，材料科学和社会科学等领域的问题。 主题将被选择，以吸引学生谁是在他们的学术发展的早期阶段，谁在应用数学和计算科学的广泛的潜在职业道路的认识有限的广泛人口。 该计划以团队为基础的研究方法将教会学生对科学合作的欣赏，为他们未来的就业做好准备，并提供实践冲突解决技能的机会。 最终，该计划将有助于培养新一代的合作科学家和工程师，他们对应用计算和数学来解决跨学科的现实问题感到兴奋。这个REU项目将支持四个本科生团队，每年夏天为期十周，因为他们获得了解决研究问题所需的数学，计算和统计技能，以及在基于团队的协作环境中工作的真实经验。 夏季将分为四个阶段：为期两周的培训，团队针对教师或行业赞助商提出的问题制定夏季工作声明，两个为期三周的工作周期，第一个导致向赞助商提交中期报告，第二个侧重于回应中期报告的反馈，以及一个为期一周的完成阶段，团队准备最终报告和演示文稿，以赞助商和更大的哈佛REU社区。学生将根据他们的个人学术实力和他们作为团队成员和特定项目的潜在适合性被选中。 该计划将侧重于学生，对他们来说，这将是一个早期的，甚至可能是第一次，与研究的经验，有针对性地在历史上的黑人大学和非研究机构招聘。

The Team Research in Computational and Applied Mathematics (TRiCAM) REU program aims to give students an experience in real-world collaborative problem solving, challenging them to apply mathematics and computation to tackle team projects posed by Harvard faculty and industrial partners. Projects will involve the application of computational and mathematical tools such as machine learning, data analysis, and numerical simulation to solve problems in fields such as geoscience, medicine, materials science, and the social sciences. Topics will be chosen to appeal to a wide population of students who are at early stages of their academic development, and who have limited awareness of the vast range of potential career paths in applied mathematics and computational science. The program's team-based approach to research will teach students an appreciation for scientific collaboration, prepare them for future employment, and provide opportunities to practice conflict resolution skills. Ultimately the program will help develop a new generation of collaborative scientists and engineers who are excited about applying computation and mathematics to solve interdisciplinary, real-world problems. This REU project will support four teams of undergraduate students for ten weeks each summer as they gain both the mathematical, computational, and statistical skills necessary to tackle a research problem, and real-world experience of working in a team-based collaborative environment. The summer will be divided into four phases: a two-week orientation where teams formulate a statement of work for summer in response to the problem posed by the faculty or industrial sponsor, two three-week work periods, the first resulting in a midterm report submitted to the sponsor, and the second focused on responding to feedback from the midterm report, and a one-week completion phase where teams prepare final reports and presentations to both the sponsors and the larger Harvard REU community. Students will be selected for teams based on their individual academic strengths and for their potential fit as a member of a team and for a particular project. The program will focus on students for whom this will be an early, even perhaps a first, experience with research, by targeted recruiting at historically black colleges and non-research institutions.