IGERT Curriculum and Requirements
Doctoral candidates enrolled in diverse graduate fields can come together to receive broad multidisciplinary training in nonlinear systems. Two years of full fellowship support, including generous stipends, is available through the program for qualified applicants. Fellowship applicants must be United States citizens or nationals, or permanent residents of the United States. Women and members of underrepresented minority groups are especially encouraged to apply.

All participants in the Nonlinear Systems Program at Cornell are working toward their Ph.D. degree in an appropriate graduate field. The program enables these participating Ph.D. candidates to gain expertise in nonlinear systems through an integrated two-semester course in nonlinear science and through a summer internship in a laboratory, a hospital, a Wall Street firm, or an industrial setting.

Integrated Courses
Participants take a two semester integrated course in their first fellowship year. One semester is an introduction to nonlinear dynamics and chaos and the second semester is a course on computational methods for nonlinear systems. These courses bring together students from different fields, giving them a strong foundation to engage in collaborative research.

A fall seminar series (CIS 797) and a course entitled Computational Methods for Nonlinear Systems (PHYS 682) and further study in Nonlinear Systems in the spring round out IGERT's integrated coursework. More...

Summer Internship
Each IGERT Fellow completes a summer internship between the two fellowship years. Depending on the student's interest, the internship will be in an appropriate policy, financial, industrial, laboratory or clinical setting. This requirement can be satisfied by doing a rotation in a laboratory or applied research group at Cornell or at another institution. A sample of past IGERT internships includes:

Seminars
The IGERT Fellows organize and participate in a weekly seminar in which they discuss their own research, areas for potential research projects, issues such as professional ethics and professional writing skills, and timely research topics in nonlinear systems.

Colloquia
IGERT Fellows attend several departmental colloquia each semester sponsored by the IGERT Program. These are generally expository talks by leading researchers at the frontiers of nonlinear science who come to Cornell to foster multidisciplinary links with the university. We have established a tradition that the IGERT Program participants host these colloquium speakers for lunch, engaging them in discussion about topics like their professional histories. Schedule...

Research Projects
In their second fellowship year, IGERT Fellows complete an interdisciplinary research project. These projects are either mentored by the IRTG or by at least two faculty from different disciplines solicited by the Fellow. Project descriptions are to be completed by the end of the spring semester in the first fellowship year.

Research Facilities
Each participant in the Nonlinear Systems Program has access to computers in the Center for Applied Mathematics (CAM) in Rhodes Hall as well as to computer facilities in the participant's graduate field of study. CAM has a network of SUN workstations to which several Ultrasparcs and PCs running Windows NT have been added for the Nonlinear Systems Program. The SUN workstations offer a wide range of mathematical software, including Maple, MATLAB, and Mathematica.

Rhodes Hall	Workplaces in the Center for Applied Math, Rhodes Hall

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