May 6: First Official REU Meeting (Summer I)
May 13: Proposal Draft
May 28: REU Tea & Colloquium 3-4 PM, Lake 509
June 4: REU Tea & Group Presentations 3-4 PM, Nightingale 544
June 11: REU Tea & Colloquium 3-4 PM, Lake 509
June 21: Final Presentations, Lunch 12-1, Talks 1-4, Lake 509 (Summer I)
June 28: Final Paper Due (Summer I)
August 14: Final Presentations (Summer II)
Final Paper: At least 5 pages. If two students, then paper is written together is at least 10 pages. Should include an introduction with motivation and guiding questions, definitions, examples, a main result and proof. No maximum page limit, but writing should be clear and concise.
Final Presentation: 30 minutes (40 if group of 2). Should introduce audience to area of research, convince them it is interesting through examples, definitions and results. Time is too short to include everything so choose carefully what to present highlighting what you worked hardest on. Narrative and slides and/or boardwork should be clear.
Participants: Hoyin Chu. Mentor: Jonier Antunes. Summer I.
Paper: Introduction to Evolutionary Dynamics and Stochastic Calculus.
Participants: Noah Fleischmann, Kally Lyonnais. Mentor: Dmytro Matvieievsky. Summer I.
Paper: Knots, Colors, and Polynomials.
Participants: Kristin Timothy, Michael Wang. Mentor: Ian Dumais. Summer I.
Paper: Sandpiles and Chip Firing.
Participants: Karthik Boyareddygari Mentor: Oleksiy Sorokin. Summer I.
Paper: Homotopical Approach to Tensor Products.
Participants: Walker Miller-Breetz. Mentor: Anupam Kumar. Summer II.
Paper: Cone Points on Algebraic Curves.
Post-doc coordinators: Emily Barnard, Rob Silversmith, Robin Walters
Faculty organizer: Valerio Toledano Laredo