PROGRAM:

Twenty students will be chosen to work with mathematics faculty from Lyman Briggs College. Professors Dan Dougherty, Igor Nazarov, and Aklilu Zeleke will guide the student research.

SCHEDULE:

The 2013 Schedule

TOPICS:

The topics to be studied will be in the areas of

• Conditional Inference Approaches in Computational Neuroscience (Mentor: Dan Dougherty)
• Random Walks on Spheres and Harmonic Functions (Mentor: Igor Nazarov)
• Fibonacci-like polynomials, their Properties and Combinatorial Identities (Mentor: Aklilu Zeleke)

PROJECT RESULTS:

• From our 2012 REU
  • Conditioned Likelihoods Using Bifurcation Continuation in Inverse Modeling of Dynamical Systems (Mentor: Dougherty)
  • Inverse Modeling of Dynamical Systems: Multi-Dimensional Extensions of a Stochastic Switching Problem (Mentor: Dougherty)

• From our 2011 REU
  • Inverse Modeling of Dynamical Systems (Stephanie Ger and Ariel Setniker)
  • How will changing the Initial Conditions change a Fibonacci Polynomial (Rebecca Miller and Laquinta Stewart)
  • Permutation Statistics and q-analogues of the Catalan numbers (Tim Dwyer)
  • On the Properties of a Quasi-Fibonacci Polynomial Sequence (Brandon Alberts)

• From our 2010 REU
  • Games on Graphs: Pursuit and Evasion (Mentor: Bell)
  • Combinatorial Identities (Mentor: Tefera)
  • Phase Transition and Critical Phenomena in Random Walks (Mentor: Zeleke)

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DATES:

June 5 – July 26, 2013.

STIPENDS:

Each student will receive a stipend of $3,200, housing, and a meal allowance. Travel money to the REU site and to make presentations at conferences will be provided.

APPLICATIONS:

Students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and will be Undergraduates in Fall 2013 are eligible to apply. Women and Minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants should have completed a first course in Calculus by May 2013.

Preference will be given to applications received by March 1, 2013.

Application:
SURIEM Application
Advert Poster (.pdf)

For additional information and/or application forms...

Visit the website:
http://www.lymanbriggs.msu.edu/SURIEM
Or contact Dr. Aklilu Zeleke (517) 353-4504 or (517) 355-3287
Email: zeleke@stt.msu.edu
Map: MSU Campus