2008 Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Every summer there have been small groups of students working with faculty members and graduate students on projects accessible to undergraduates, for about ten weeks in starting at the end of May. This summer's program is comprised of the following groups:  

Tower of Hanoi
Instructors: Jason Behrstock, Eli Grigsby
Graduate Student: Harold Sultan
Students: Amy Cen, So Eun Park, Ian Spafford, Michael Rand, Andrew Zhang

So Eun Park posted a paper to the arxiv. It is available at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.1179v1

TQFT
Instructor: Aaron Lauda
Graduate Students: Joelle Brichard, Ben Elias
Students: Giwan Kim, Andrew Kontaxis, David Xia

Floer Homology
Instructor: Adam Knapp
Graduate Students: Ina Petkova, Roman Zarev
Students: Yael Degany, James Oyuang, Xuran Wang

Hyperbolic Geometry
Instructor: Max Lipyanskiy
Graduate Student: Thomas Peters
Students: Cory Bergman, Taekgyu Lee, Eric Potash, Rachel Vishnepolsky

Polyhedral cones and their intersections with lattices
Instructor: Michael Thaddeus
Students: Alex Perry, Christopher Lopez, Atanas Atanasov