DIMACS Reconnect '00

APPLICATION FORM

Application Instructions

Please fill out the form below and return it along with a vitae to this address before the deadline of April 3, 2000.

Reconnect Program Administrator

DIMACS/CoRE Building

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

96 Frelinghuysen Road

Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018

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The DIMACS Reconnect Conference will be held from June 19 to June 30, 2000. Applicants who are selected to attend this program are expected to attend for the entire two weeks. (Weekends are optional.) If selected, will you be able to commit to participating for the entire program? Yes___ No___

• Why do you want to attend the Reconnect Program and how do you think you will benefit from it?

2. One goal of our program is to have participants write classroom materials which may require additional writing or follow up during the upcoming academic year. Are you prepared to do the additional writing after the program? Yes___ No___

3. a. What courses have you taught in the last two years?

b. What courses will you (or do you) expect to teach in the next academic year?

4. a. Have you taught, taken or self-taught a Discrete Math course? Yes___ No___

b. Have you taught, taken or self-taught an Algorithm Analysis course? Yes___ No___

5. Indicate what software packages you are familiar with.

• What experience have you had in writing expository materials in mathematics?

7. a. What research experience are you most proud of? (A sentence will suffice.)

b. When did you last experience doing research and what was it about? (A sentence or

two about the topic will suffice.)

NOTE: If you would like to append a sample of something you have written (lecture notes, a class handout, anything of that sort), please include it.