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Posted by Michael Gage, 12/12/00 at 2:17:55 PM.
Applied Mathematics Insititute at Carnegie Mellon May 29 - July 16, 2002
Deadline March 1, 2002
Web: http://www.math.cmu.edu/users/wow/summerinst/general.html
Summary
| | Undergraduate students often are unclear on exactly what graduate study and research will require of them and what it can offer them; unfortunately, many talented students decide against graduate studies in part because of this uncertainty. Our program is designed to help students make a rational decision by giving them a taste of the graduate experience, without excessive cost of time in their careers. The course-work, while at a level appropriate to Juniors and Sophomores, is taught at graduate-level intensity, and the projects offer the chance to discover the pleasures, and frustrations, of attacking open-ended research problems. The students are given the opportunity to interact with current graduate students. |
| | We also aim to introduce students to areas of reasearch in applied mathematics with which they may not be familiar, both through the project work and through a series of seminars by research faculty and graduate students. |
| | Finally, the students in the Institute will leave CMU with tangibles: tools from the analysis and Maple courses which will prove of service in their continuing undergraduate and their graduate studies, and intangibles: the pleasure of working with and hanging out with students with similar interests from very different geographic and cultural backgrounds. |
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