PROGRAM: |
Eighteen students will be
selected to work with mathematics faculty from Lyman Briggs College, the
Mathematics Department, and the Probability and Statistics Department.
The research topics will include Combinatorial Neural Codes, Learning
Functions of Many Variables and Compressive Sensing, Gordian Adjacency
for Positive Braids, Biostatics and Neuroscience, and one other project
TBD (five research groups in all). A detailed description of the
projects can be found under the PROJECTS heading below.
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STIPENDS: |
Each
student will receive a stipend of $4000, on-campus housing, and a meal
allowance. Travel money to support travel to the REU site and to
conferences will be provided through generous support from the NSF, the
NSA, and MSU. |
APPLICATIONS: |
Students
who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and who will be undergraduates in
fall 2018 are eligible to apply. Women and minorities are strongly
encouraged to apply. Applicants must have completed two semesters of
calculus by May 2018. Preference is given to students who are at an
earlier stage of their study of mathematics (e.g. rising sophomores
and rising juniors).
Preference will
be given to applications received by March 1, 2018. A review of applicaitons will begin on
March 1 and continue until all positions have been filled.
To apply, please complete the following online
application:
SURIEM Application
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PROJECT RESULTS: |
- From our 2017 REU
- Mathematical Models in Biology (Emily Dorn,
Philip Grossweiler, Savannah Swiatlowski, and Dr. Chichia Chiu
(faculty mentor).
- Mathematics and Neuroscience (Hanyu Gao,
Cara Nix, Meraiah Martinez, Mark Reimers (faculty mentor), Jordan
Tait (graduate student mentor).
- Recursive Polynomials (Katherine Arneson,
Mohit Bansil, Jason Bruce, Alexandra Embry,
Dr. Wei-Hsuan Yu (faculty mentor), and Dr. Aklilu Zeleke
(faculty mentor).
- From our 2016 REU
- Games on Graphs (Julie Anne Bowman,
Arthur Diep-Nguyen, Rashmika Goswami, Dylan King, Nicholas
Lindell, Emily Olson (graduate mentor), and Dr. Robert Bell
(faculty mentor). Final research report:
SURIEM 2016 final report: games
on graphs.
- MRI Imaging (Jade Larriva-Latt,
Angela Morrison, Alison Radgowski, Joseph Tobin, Dr. Aditya
Viswanathan (faculty mentor), Dr. Mark Iwen (faculty mentor),
and Dr. Tsvetanka Sendova (faculty mentor).
Research outcomes.
- Random Fractals (Gabriel
Raodoccia-Feuerstein, Brantley (Daniel) Simmons, Jihad Nasser,
Konstantin Mckenna, Michael Delaura (graduate mentor), and
Dr. Yimin Xiao (faculty mentor). Final report:
Fractal report.
- Recursive Polynomials (Michelle
Haver, Kathleen Lee, William McDermott, Gregory Vaughan, Alex
Wilson, Dr. Wei-Hsuan Yu (faculty mentor), and Dr. Aklilu Zeleke
(faculty mentor).
- From our 2015 REU
- Pursuit and Evasion Games on
Graphs (Levi Crews, Will Vosejpka, Elizabeth Matys, Jordan
DuBeau, Garrett Divens, Gregory Rodriguez, Emily Olson
(graduate mentor), and Dr. Robert Bell (faculty mentor).
Final research reports:
Cops and robbers on infinite graphs and
Cops and robbers in
tunnels.
- Recursive polynomials and
their properties (Maria Lema, Alperen Sirin, Max Bender,
Huei Sears, Alex Durbin, and Dr. Aklilu Zeleke (faculty
mentor). Final research reports:
Fibonacci polynomials:
a generalized recurrence relation and
Properties of the
roots of tribonacci-type polynomials.
- From our 2014 REU
- Pursuit and Evasion Games on Graphs (Taylor Ball,
Jonathan Guzman, Madeleine Hanson-Colvin, Nicholas Schonsheck,
and Dr. Robert Bell (faculty mentor). Research publication:
On the cop number of
generalized Petersen Graphs,
(to appear in Discrete Mathematics.
- Numerical Methods and Differential
Equations (Benjamin
Lewis, David Marsico, Jason McKelvey, Bridget Morales, Madison
Wilkin, and Dr. Andrew Chrislieb (faculty mentor). Final
research presentation: A particle in cell corrected
approach to direct sum.
- Grid Diagrams and Knot Theory (Nicole Catton, Elliot Kaplan,
Su Jin Lim, Patricia O'Brien, David Krcatovich (graduate
mentor) and Dr. Teena Gerhardt (faculty mentor). Research
publications:
Resolution depth
of positive braids (published in the Journal of Knot Theory
and Its Ramifications in 2015).
- Permutations and Pattern Avoidance (Carlin Purcell, Robert
Dorward, Jonathan Gerhard, Thomas Grubb, Lindsey Repphun, Samantha
Dahlberg (graduate mentor) and
Dr. Bruce Sagan (faculty mentor). Research publications:
Restricted growth
functions patterns and statistics (submitted for publication)
and Set partitions
patterns and statistics (published in Discrete Mathematics
in 2016).
- From our 2013 REU
- Convergence of the Maximum Roots of
Fibonacci-Type Functions (Ashley Huhman and Leah Kaisler)
- Roots of a Type of Generalized Quasi-Fibonacci Polynomials (Daniel Thompson)
- Remarks on the Properties of a Quasi-Fibonacci-like Polynomial Sequence (Brice Merwine, LIU Brooklyn, Ilan Weinschelbaum, and
Wesleyan University)
- Location of Roots for Recursively Defined
Sequences (Ethan Fricker and Maggie Mikus)
- Protein-Protein Interaction Detection
Using Mixed Models (Andrew Best, Andrea Ekey, Alyssa Everding, Sarah Jermeland, Jalen Marshall, Carrie N. Rider, and Grace Silaban)
- Random Walks on Spheres
End of Term Report Summer 2013 (Annie Brunelle, Emily Diana, Je Dzugan
Ryan Gallagher, Elisabeth Johnson, and David Wegscheid)
- From our 2012 REU
- An Investigation Towards Embdedded Boundary Methods for Maxwell's Equations (Phil Ammirato, Katie Eichinger, Alex Hegedus,
Catherine Ross, and Rita Vander Stad)
- Brownian Motion and Harmonic Functions (Harini Chandramouli, Kiya Holmes, Brandon Reeves, and Nora Stack)
- Non-Trivial Pursuit: a Game of Cops and
Robbers (Kirstyn Baker, Caitlin Gra, Anthony Graves-McCleary, Aashish Srinivas, and Philip Thomas)
- Conditioned Likelihoods Using Bifurcation Continuation in Inverse Modeling of Dynamical Systems (Karleigh Camerony and Marissa Saladinz)
- Inverse Modeling of Dynamical Systems: Multi-Dimensional Extensions of a Stochastic Switching Problem (Erik Batesy, Blake Chamberlainz, and Rachel Gettinger)
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