I am writing to request your help in identifying undergraduate students who are interested in a summer research experience. Our faculty has been impressed with the quality of students at your institution and I hope you will encourage your students to consider applying to the 2012 Nebraska Summer Research Program.
Nebraska’s summer program offers research opportunities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. A complete listing of faculty mentors and research project descriptions can be found on our website at http://www.unl.edu/summerprogram/. Students can also find information about program benefits including a competitive stipend, room and board, travel expenses and more.

Summer 2012 programs include:

Applied Mathematics
Bioenergy Systems
Biomedical Engineering
Chemistry
Nanomaterials and Nanoscience
Optics and Laser Physics
Redox Biology and Biochemistry
Virology

During the Nebraska Summer Research Program, students receive first-hand exposure to research and the experiences of graduate school. They work closely with faculty mentors and research teams of graduate students and other summer scholars. Students also have opportunities to participate in meaningful social and professional development activities outside of the laboratory.

Our online application ( http://www.unl.edu/summerprogram/apply.shtml ) makes it easy for students to apply. Priority review begins Wednesday, February 15 and all applications are due Monday, March 1. Students historically underrepresented in graduate education and students from academic institutions where research programs are limited are especially encouraged to apply.

Please feel free to forward this to your students or to download our flyer to post ( http://www.unl.edu/summerprogram/graphics/SRP_2012_postcard.pdf ). If you or your students have questions, please feel free to contact me directly.

Sincerely,

Justina Clark
Summer Research Program Director
Assistant Director of Graduate Recruitment
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Office of Graduate Studies

2011 Summer Research Program Participants (Wow, they sure like red!)

Wednesday, February 1st at 5pm in SCI 324.

Notice that we’re in the Film and Media Studies Lounge in Old Science Hall 324.  That’s right next door to PHSC.  Here it is on the campus map:

Click on the map to make it bigger.

We’ll be watching the Best Picture nominated film Moneyball.  We learned from John Paul Cook last semester that there is lots of interesting math in the Moneyball story.  Plus there’s Brad Pitt (An Okie!), Jonah Hill, and baseball.  Something for everyone!

Here’s the trailer:

And, as always, Free Pizza!

The University of Texas at Tyler Mathematics Department will be hosting an NSF-funded REU site for summer 2012. The REU in mathematics is targeting minority (especially American Indian) and first generation college students, but we encourage everyone to apply. We invite talented undergraduate students to submit an application to participate in our NSF REU
Site.

Students will work in groups of three with faculty advisors in the areas of combinatorics on words, knot theory, and tiling theory. In addition to research group work, students will have many opportunities to interact with faculty and other students in seminars and other social activities. The eight week program will run from June 18 to August 10. Participants will
receive a $4000 stipend to pay for housing, food, and entertainment while staying in Tyler.

Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents to participate. We will begin reviewing applications on February 13 and will likely make offers by mid-March. Please direct appropriate students to our website http://www.math.uttyler.edu/reu/ .

If you have students who you feel should be invited to submit an application, then please send their names and email addresses to Dr. Jennifer McLoud-Mann.

The C2B2/NSF REU program offers undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in meaningful research alongside faculty, post-doctoral researchers and graduate students at each of our four partnering institutions. Students will be conducting research in one of C2B2′s six thrust areas at either the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado School of Mines in Golden or the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden.

Along with research duties, all students participate in educational seminars, C2B2 institution site visits, industry site visits, planned social activities and cultural experiences.

Students will learn how researchers of varying disciplines at all four sites collaborate to solve biofuel and biorefining challenges. This program provides the students a rich and diverse ten week experience within the beautiful backdrop of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

The deadlines to apply are in January-March, so you should be applying now!   We’ll post any announcements here on the Math Club blog, but you should also go to OU Math Dept. webpage for math majors to find listings for lots of other opportunities.

Here’s one:

ALGORITHMIC COMBINATORICS ON WORDS

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates program entitled Algorithmic Combinatorics on Words is on interdisciplinary research at the crossroads between Mathematics and Computer Science. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro will provide unique opportunities for summer research for ten outstanding and highly motivated students for an eight-week period (June 4–July 28, 2012). Participants will work in small teams under the supervision of Professor Francine Blanchet-Sadri and in consultation with expert programmers.

Students will be introduced to various challenging algorithmic combinatorial problems on partial words, which are sequences of symbols over a finite alphabet that may have some “do not know” symbols. Two types of research opportunities will be emphasized:

1. computer related research, with students writing programs to perform experiments on partial words and to implement algorithms; and

2. combinatorics related research, with students investigating properties on partial words to generate conjectures, to prove theorems, and to discover algorithms.

Students will be exposed to the techniques of language theory since this is a natural framework for formalizing and investigating sequences and operations on them. Students will gain experience in the use of computers and their interaction in mathematical research. In addition, students will establish World Wide Web server interfaces for automated use of their programs.

NSF support through this REU program is open only to undergraduate students who are, at the time of application, citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possessions. Support is intended for students whose undergraduate study is in Mathematics and/or Computer Science. In most cases, a student has three opportunities to apply: during the sophomore or junior year of college, or during the beginning of the senior year of college (Spring 2012 graduates will not be eligible). The ideal candidate for this project would have taken a wide variety of upper-level mathematics and/or computer science courses including some of the following: Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics, Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science, and Programming. The program involves extensive computer programming and requires some experience using a language such as Java. Admission will be competitive and based on motivation, strength of the academic record, and letters of recommendation. Students admitted to this program will be given a $5,000 stipend, travel to/from Greensboro, housing, and travel allowance for participation in an international conference.

Students should send application materials to
Professor Francine Blanchet-Sadri, 167 Petty Building, University of North Carolina, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402–6170
Deadline for applications is
February 21, 2012

A World Wide Web site has been designed at
http://www.uncg.edu/cmp/reu
that contains current information about the program. For any additional information, contact Professor Francine Blanchet-Sadri

Addendum:  The full video is here:

And maybe a few things you didn’t imagine!  This year NPR did a story about the JMM.  You can hear it here.  They tell about the playful side of the meeting.  As their promo for the story says:

At a meeting of 6,000 mathematicians in Boston, a reporter finds people dancing, crocheting, knitting and using theater to explore and celebrate their discipline.

And you really should check out Dr. Sarah-Marie Belcastro mathematical knitting page (here).  You can find (with instructions!) such gems as the Klein Bottle stocking cap:

Thanks to Cathy O’Neil for the heads up!