CRP Opening

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The 2015 Collaborative Research Project in Mathematics has official begun!  The first problem release document is attached to this email.  It should serve as your initial guide to the project.   Additional documents will be released periodically throughout the month, If you are able to work at a faster pace than the releases you are welcome to do so.  The releases will contain enough information to keep new researches on pace to make a meaningful contribution to the project within the month. Please follow @CRPmathematics on twitter to keep up to date on program happenings and additional releases.

CRP Information Sites

There are three primary sources of info.

  1. CRP website: http://college.wfu.edu/crp  — mainly used for administration; only the CRP problem team can post
  2. CRP Collaboration Wiki:  http://crpwiki.math.wfu.edu/mediawiki — the collaboration site
  3. CRPmathematics twitter feed:  @CRPmathematics  —  CRP tweets in mysterious ways
The Collaboration Wiki may only be edited by account holders. You should have received login instructions in a separate email.  (If you registered late you may not receive the wiki login information until later.)

 

Read the Blog

We recommend reading the CRP blog.  If any of you (participants, advisors, others) wants to author a blog post, email us your copy and if appropriate we’ll probably post it.

Contact Us

You are always welcome to contact CRP at our gmail account:  crp.mathematics @ gmail

Best of luck and we look forward to seeing your work progress over the coming month!

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Collaboration & the Mathematical Community

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While I’ve always enjoyed mathematics, at times I’ve found the mathematics community a bit overwhelming. Sometimes it feels like people are valued based solely on their mathematical contributions. While to many this is an egalitarian view, I find it a bit isolating. I’ve often felt left out, not because of the actions of others, but my perceived view that my mathematical contribution has been small, and thus my value to the community is similarly small. The Collaborative Research Program is designed to recognize that all people interested in mathematics have a real value to the mathematics community.

Teams are not to compete with one another, instead participants should work together to grow the knowledge base in a particular area of research. More importantly teams should work together to strengthen the mathematical community. Some teams may collaborate and prove theorems publishable in the best mathematics journals. Other teams may work through a paper on their own for the first time in their mathematical careers. Each of these is a valuable contribution to the community. As you compete, please take the time to encourage each other. Tweet your accomplishments, tweet your struggles. If you see errors in the work of others, please let them know. But do so in a manner which strengthens the mathematics community.

If you think of ways to strengthen this program please let one of the organizers know. As a first-year participant you have the opportunity to help shape the future CRP.Mathematics. And trust us. We need your wisdom.
Best of luck!
-Joe Rusinko Co-organizer

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Follow CRP on Twitter

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All participants are encouraged to follow the CRP Twitter feed.  We will tweet about the project, its progress, and other related info.


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