PROGRAM:

Twenty students will be selected to work with mathematics faculty from Lyman Briggs College and the Mathematics Department. Professors Robert Bell, Andrew Christlieb, Teena Gerhardt and Bruce Sagan will guide the student research.

SCHEDULE: TBA

TOPICS:

The topics to be studied will be in the areas of

• Cops & Robbers on Graphs (Mentor: Bob Bell)
• Numerical ODEs (Mentor: Andrew Christlieb)
• Knot theory, combinatorics, and grid diagrams (Mentor: Teena Gerhardt)
• Permutation Patterns and Statistics (Mentor: Bruce E. Sagan)

PROJECT RESULTS:

• 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)

• From our 2011 REU
  • Inverse Modeling of Dynamical Systems (Stephanie Ger and Ariel Setniker)
  • How will changing the Initial Conditions change a Fibonacci Polynomial (Rebecca Miller and Laquinta Stewart)
  • Permutation Statistics and q-analogues of the Catalan numbers (Tim Dwyer)
  • On the Properties of a Quasi-Fibonacci Polynomial Sequence (Brandon Alberts)

• From our 2010 REU
  • Games on Graphs: Pursuit and Evasion (Mentor: Bell)
  • Combinatorial Identities (Mentor: Tefera)
  • Phase Transition and Critical Phenomena in Random Walks (Mentor: Zeleke)

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DATES:

May 28 to July 25

STIPENDS:

Each student will receive a stipend of $3,200, housing, and a meal allowance. Travel money to the REU site and to make presentations at conferences will be provided.

APPLICATIONS:

Students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and will be Undergraduates in Fall 2013 are eligible to apply. Women and Minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants should have completed a first course in Calculus by May 2014.

Preference will be given to applications received by March 1, 2014.

Application:
SURIEM Application

For additional information and/or application forms...

Visit the website:
http://www.lymanbriggs.msu.edu/SURIEM
Or contact Dr. Aklilu Zeleke (517) 353-4504 or (517) 355-3287
Email: zeleke@stt.msu.edu
Map: MSU Campus