Summer Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
and the Mills Summer Mathematics Institute

SIMS and its predecessor, the Mills SMI, were six-week programs offering fast-paced, highly stimulating seminars for talented undergraduate women. These programs were designed to motivate and prepare participants to enter and successfully complete Ph.D. programs in the mathematical sciences.

From 1991 to 1997 over 150 undergraduate women participated in these programs.

We collect here information about SIMS and the Mills SMI.

• In 1997 the MAA published a volume on the SIMS program

• In 1996, A detailed evaluation of the SIMS and Mills SMI were carried out.

  • The questionnaires used in the evaluation are available here.

  • A summary of the evaluation results will be available soon.

  • "Evaluating Summer Math Programs", appeared in the Proceedings of the Conference on Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Research Programs, sponsored by the AMS and NSA.
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  • "Discussion on How to Evaluate Summer Mathematics Programs" appeared in the same proceedings
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• Descriptions of SIMS and the Mills SMI appear in the Proceedings of the Conference on Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Research Programs, sponsored by the AMS and NSA.
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• List of past participants

• Pictures of past participants