NSF REU at Trinity

Important Dates

March 31, 2008: application deadline.

May 26 - August 1, 2008: program dates.

(Our Search for 2008 Participants is now closed. We sincerely thank all students who applied. If you are a First Year student or a Sophomore, then we hope you consider applying again for our 2009 Program.)

Multi-Agent Systems

The study of agency and multi-agent systems (MAS) crosses disciplinary boundaries by focusing on society, culture and communication as emerging from interactions of autonomous agents. Poised at the intersections of AI, cybernetics, sociology, semiotics and anthropology, multiagent systems research enables a powerful perspective illuminating not only how we live and learn, but also, through focusing on emergence, how we anticipate the future.

REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates)

This project is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Computer Science and the Laboratory for Distributed Intelligent Agent Systems at Trinity University. We will have a 10-week REU program where students will work collaboratively on a wide variety of Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems problems. The program involves three undergraduate students from Trinity University and five from other colleges and universities. We invite interested students and their faculty mentor to browse through this site and consider applying for these positions.

During the summer research experience, participants will work closely with faculty members on their current research projects, make short progress presentations to their peers during program meetings, attend presentation skills workshops, make a formal poster presentation of their research experience at the end of the program, and submit a written, final report describing the results of their research. Students may not enroll in additional academic courses during the summer sessions. It is hoped that the students participating in the REU program will make significant contributions to ongoing faculty research and, more importantly, will gain an appreciation for and an interest in graduate school and a future research career.

Funding

Each participant will receive:

a stipend of $4,000,

free housing in university dormitories,

travel expenses to and from San Antonio,

an afternoon refreshment break everyday and a social gathering dinner per week.