Summary of the project
The UC Davis VIGRE project offers a range of activities designed to
integrate the excitement of research mathematics into every facet of
our program, undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral. The main
structural components of the project are
Research Focus Groups, which will coordinate many
of the activities. We
will have three or four Research Focus Groups each year, including
regular faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and
undergraduates. The areas of research of the Groups may vary from
year to year, depending on the interests and expertise of the faculty
and graduate students. The Research Focus Group activities will
include a research seminar, a reading seminar, research projects, and
outreach programs. Among the goals of these Groups are to
introduce
undergraduates to mathematical research, to provide a mechanism for
graduate students to interact closely with faculty and postdoctoral
fellows early in their graduate careers, and to give postdoctoral
fellows an opportunity to learn leadership skills necessary to a
successful mathematical career. We will use the VIGRE project
as a focus of new initiatives in graduate recruitment. We will continue
our review and revision of our undergraduate and graduate programs,
informed by the student and faculty experiences in the Research Focus
Groups.
The main components of the VIGRE project at UCDavis are described here:
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