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: MSRI-Undergraduate Program: Origin, present form, and future

: MSRI-Undergraduate Program: Origin, present form, and future. Ricardo Cortez January 28 th , 2008. Description.

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: MSRI-Undergraduate Program: Origin, present form, and future

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  1. : MSRI-Undergraduate Program: Origin, present form, and future Ricardo Cortez January 28th, 2008

  2. Description The is a comprehensive program for undergraduates that aims at increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups in mathematics graduate programs. The program includes a summer research opportunity,; mentoring; workshops on the graduate school application process, LaTeX, giving effective presentations; travel to conferences; and follow-up support. Funded by National Security Agency

  3. Trains undergraduates in mathematical research through a six-week summer program at MSRI. • Provides participating students opportunities to present their research at national conferences in the year following the summer program. • Introduces participating students to a network of mentors through national societies known for their mentoring activities and professional support for students. • Guides students in the process of applying to graduate programs and fellowships.

  4. Origin The idea for the program came out of the MSRI workshop Raising the floor: Progress and setbacks in the struggle for quality mathematics education for all in May 2006. David Eisenbud and Ricardo discussed the idea of running an undergraduate summer research program at MSRI and decided to get it started within one year.

  5. Main features • Five Directors run the program but rotate as on-site Directors each year • Summer topics change every year: Computational Science (2007), Experimental Mathematics (2008) • Target students who have high potential but do not necessarily know much about mathematics graduate programs • Very intensive (15-hour days) • Immersion in mathematics with exposure to information about graduate school, funding, career options, research and professional skills. • Field trips

  6. Directors Ricardo Cortez 2007 Suzy Weekes 2011 Ive Rubio 2008 Duane Cooper 2010 HerbertMedina 2009

  7. Initial year: 2007 • 12 students, 2 graduate assistants, 1 Juan Meza • Topic: Computational Science and Math • http://www.ams.org/ams/sacnas2007-mtg.html • Housed in the UCB dorms, meals included • Guest speakers, workshops, field trips • Travel to conferences

  8. Density Functional Theory • Experimental Math • Networks • Support Vector Machines Organization and Projects

  9. Presentation of Results • Final presentations on MSRI streaming video • Final reports • SACNAS annual conference • Infinite Possibilities conference

  10. The upcoming 2008 program • Slightly larger: 18 students, 2 graduate assistants, 1 postdoctoral assistant, 1 Victor Moll • Topic: Experimental Mathematics - ”…the students will take advantage of the computational tools that exists in symbolic languages to investigate interesting problems, most of which come from the question of evaluation of definite integrals.” • Housed in the UCB dorms, meals included • Guest speakers, workshops, field trips • Final presentations/report, travel to conferences in ’08-09

  11. Vision for the future • Steady-state of 18 +/- 6 students each summer • Single topic but different each year • Each on-site Director stays with that student group forever • Rotating on-site Directors allow new leadership to rotate in • Replicate program at other institutes • Track statistics and impact over 10-year period

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