Resources

Summer Research Opportunities

• Michigan Math Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

• National Science Foundation (NSF) funded REU Sites

• American Mathematical Society (AMS) REU listings

• Web Guide to Research for Undergraduates

• 2024 Math REU Programs listing with dates and topics

Undergraduate Math Conferences

• Undergraduate Math Symposium, UIC

• Young Mathematicians Conference, OSU

• Undergraduate Knot Conference

• SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference

• JMM usually has an AMS-SIAM Special Session for undergraduates

For U(M) Math Students

• Consider taking an independent study course

• Lab of Geometry at Michigan (Math 440) is a semester-long mathematics research and computing experience, offered in the Fall and Winter semesters.

• Explorations in Mathematical Research (Math 389) is also a semester-long course meant to introduce undergraduates to math research, offered in the Winter semester.

Quotes

These have been included not for their accuracy (as they very well may be exaggerated, mistranslated, or even fictional) but because of the story they tell. 

• "There is no math without courage."

– Bar Roytman [As quoted in S. DeBacker – Math Missive. U(M) Mathematics, 2023.]

• "The Axiom of Choice is obviously true; the Well-Ordering theorem is obviously false; and who can tell about Zorn's Lemma?"

– Jerry Bona [As quoted in S. Krantz – Handbook of Logic and Proof Techniques for Computer Science. Springer, 2002.]

• "Mathematics in Göttingen? There is really none anymore."

– David Hilbert (~1934), in response to the Nazi Minister of Education's question on the state of mathematics in Göttingen after being 'freed from Jewish influence' [As quoted in C. Reid – Hilbert. Springer, 1972.]

• "God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists since we cannot prove it." 

– André Weil [As quoted in H. Eves – Mathematical Circles Adieu. Prindle, Weber, and Schmidt, 1977.]

Jokes

• Math jokes collected by Andrej and Elena Cherkaev

YouTube videos

• Bolzano-Weierstrass Rap

• Hilbert's Infinite Hotel

• Finite simple group of order two a cappella performance

• Hobbyist solves 50-year old problem: Einstein Tile

Misc

• Mathematical Writing Bingo

Links of Interest

• Logic and Set Theory around the world: settheory.net/world

• Model Theory meetings and events: Modnet

• Recent preprints: arxiv.org/list/math.LO/recent

• Association for Symbolic Logic: aslonline.org

• Graduate Student Conference in Logic: 2024 link