Texas A&M University : TAMU is ranked fifth, nationally, in NSF research and development expenditures. A&M ranks tenth in enrollment of national merit scholars and is among the top five in total student enrollment. Current university library holdings include over 2.4 million volumes and 20,000 serial titles.

The Mathematics Department : The math department has approximately 80 tenure-track and tenured members of the department, approximately 20 professorial visitors and approximately 25 lecturers, making it one of the largest math departments in the country. Our research is well-funded by many governmental agencies. Teaching is also important with many of our faculty having won collegiate and university teaching awards. The mathematics department is housed in two buildings, Blocker and Milner. Most of the classrooms used by the three programs will be in Blocker where there are computer labs dedicated to the math department.

Computer Facilities. The math department has five computer laboratories, containing a combined total of more than 170 network terminals (each with 19'' or 21'' color monitors). For the duration of the program, each student participant will be provided with one of these terminals, with access to Matlab, Maple, e-mail, Netscape, and a variety of word processors. The total hardware configuration for the labs: 3 Linux servers (each with 2 Pentium II processors - 400MHz, 512MB RAM), 1 Linux fileserver (with 2 Pentium II processors - 400MHz, 512MB RAM, 45GB disk), 1 Sun E450 (4 UltraSPARC processors - 300MHz, 1.5GB RAM), 4 Sun SS20/152 servers (2 hyperSPARC processors - 150MHz, 512MB RAM), 96 Dell Optiplex workstations running Linux (350-550MHz, 128-256MB RAM), 96 NCD Explora Pro X terminals. An SGI workstation laboratory, equipped with digital recording devices for sound and video, will also be available for the students' projects. The department's laboratories, and many of our lecture halls, have instructor workstations and high resolution RGB projectors. Student participants will be able to use this equipment for their group presentations.