Michigan Math Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Gavin Bell, Colin Feeney, and Ethan Harr, Summer 2025
Project: Realizability of saturated transfer systems for cyclic groups [slides | report].
Faculty Advisor: Bar Roytman
Michigan Math Directed Reading Program
Adam Nichamoff, Summer 2025
Paper: Studying Descriptive Combinatorics through Distributed Algorithms [PDF].
Readings: Several texts and papers.
Burak Aricioglu and Yotam Chopra, Summer 2025
Paper: Connecting the Dots [PDF].
Readings: R. Trudeau – Introduction to Graph Theory (Dover, 1993) and G. A. Jones – Paley and the Paley Graphs [arXiv].
Sharif Velásquez, Winter 2025
Presentation: Not All Proofs Are Enough [slides].
Readings: Arora and Barak – Computational Complexity (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012).
Talk selected for U(M) Math Club.
Colin Feeney, Winter 2025
Presentation: Variants of Hilbert's Nullstellensatz [slides].
Readings: Smith, et al. – An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry (Springer, 2000), and other texts.
Tyler Weeks, Fall 2024
Presentation: Diophantine Systems and the Four Distance Problem [slides].
Readings: Several texts and papers.
Talk selected for U(M) Math Club.
Gavin Bell, Fall 2024
Presentation: Finite Field Fact Fest [slides].
Readings: Ireland and Rosen – A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory (Springer, 1982).
Julian Skifstad, Summer 2024
Presentation: Rotations and Orthogonal Representations with Applications in Robotics [slides].
Readings: M. Artin – Algebra (Pearson, 2011).
Talk selected for U(M) Math Club.
Ayan Chowdhury, Summer 2024
Presentation: All The Sets [slides].
Readings: Jech – Set Theory (Springer, 1997).