Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Over the past several summers the Mathematics Department has run research programs aimed at rising junior and senior math majors. This year there are four groups working with faculty members and graduate students for a ten week period beginning in late May. Listed below are the group titles and participants.

Knot Floer Homology: Properties and Computations
Jennifer Hom - Faculty
Corrin Clarkson
Kristen Hendricks
Vivian Bailey
Stephen Hancock
Michael Newman
Chun Ye

Computations of Non-commutative Knot Invariants
Shea Vela-Vick - Faculty
Peter Horn - Faculty
Ina Petkova
Jonathan Hanselman
Rankeya Datta
Stephen Fitz
Eden Prywes
John Schultz
Joshua Tobin
Kitty Yang

Quantum Computing with Knots
Adam Knapp - Faculty
Meagan Thompson
Sea Moon Cho
Shazia Dharssi
James Diotte
Sung Chul Park
Timothy Sun

Rigidity of Graphs in Space
Dylan Thurston - Faculty
Joe Stern
Samuel Coolidge
Jeffrey Kandel
Arjun Mudan
Monica Puri

 

RTG Undergraduate Research Projects:
Apollonian Sums
Ian Whitehead
Shai Chester
Sharma Goldson
Matthew Jacobs
Stephanie Zarrindast

A Classification of Integral Apollonian Circle Packings
Karol Koziol
Tabes Bridges
Warren Tai

Unbounded Apollonian Circle Packings, Self-Similarity and Residual Points
Timothy Heath
Alexander Berenbeim
Todd Gaugler
Tasos Moulinos

 

Previous Summer Programs

2010 Program

2009 Program

2008 Program

2007 Program