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DMS Division Of Mathematical Sciences |
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Initial Amendment Date: | August 1, 2018 |
Latest Amendment Date: | April 17, 2023 |
Award Number: | 1820731 |
Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
Program Manager: |
Swatee Naik
snaik@nsf.gov (703)292-4876 DMS Division Of Mathematical Sciences MPS Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
Start Date: | August 1, 2018 |
End Date: | July 31, 2024 (Estimated) |
Total Intended Award Amount: | $477,136.00 |
Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $477,136.00 |
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160 CONVENT AVE NEW YORK NY US 10031-9101 (212)650-5418 |
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Convent Ave at W. 138th St New York NY US 10031-9101 |
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NSF Program(s): |
INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM, WORKFORCE IN THE MATHEMAT SCI |
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Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.049 |
ABSTRACT
This grant will run a Recruitment and Mentoring in Mathematics Program (RAMMP) program, with the purpose of increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups entering doctoral programs in mathematical sciences. For three years, ten advanced undergraduate students will divide into teams and engage in mentored summer research projects in mathematics. The students will develop their interests in mathematics in an active, supportive community of peers. The program will be run at the City University of New York, an institution known for its student diversity, and will expose talented students to mathematical research and related activities, which form the daily work of a doctoral student but which many undergraduates never experience. This experience together with mentorship and community building activities continuing throughout the year will encourage the student participants to pursue higher degrees and careers in the mathematical sciences.
Research problems will be selected from the fields of faculty members participating in the program including Number Theory, Combinatorics, Algebra, Dynamical Systems, and Geometry. The problems will have a significant computational component and will be chosen so that even partial student progress will advance the long-term research agendas of their faculty mentors. Mentors will choose accessible, open questions whose resolution would lead to the discovery of new phenomena or new proof techniques with broad applicability.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
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PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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This grant funded undergraduate students to work with faculty mentors on a directed research project during the summers of 2019-2024. During these 6 summers, 39 students worked in 12 research groups. This program was based primarily at The City College of New York, with the exception of two summers (Summer 2020 and Summer 2021) when all activities were conducted remotely. The student participants were drawn primarily from CUNY and other area institutions and consequently reflect the diversity of the Greater New York City area.
The student groups conducted research in varied fields of mathematics, including projects on heat kernels on discrete groups, higher order Jacobian ideals, the Collatz conjecture, and combinatorics of Young lattices. The research conducted by the student groups has thus far resulted in three publications and several more preprints. Results have been presented in talks and poster sessions at area conferences.
In addition to gaining experience in conducting mathematical research, the student participants received further guidance in their professional development via talks and workshops on topics such as document/poster preparation, how to prepare and give a lecture, and applying to and being successful in graduate school.
In fact, one focus of the program was to help identify, recruit and support students from traditionally underrepresented groups with an interest in graduate studies in mathematics. Roughly a third of the student participants have pursued graduate studies in mathematics or a related field and several more are currently applying to PhD programs in mathematics.
Last Modified: 11/26/2024
Modified by: Gautam Chinta
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