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2008 Research projects and faculty mentors
Below is a list of projects that have been proposed by the faculty who will be participating in the program.
Please click on a project to obtain a detailed description.
- Schubert's unfinished calculation
Hari Bercovici
- Geometry and Topology of negatively curved surfaces
Chris Connell
- Counting Involutions in Finite Groups
Allan Edmonds
- Solving a Genetic Mutation Model in 3-D
Mike Jolly
- Growing point vortex configurations on the sphere
Mike Jolly
- Adventures in the pants complex
Chris Judge
- New systems of logic for language
Larry Moss
- The Thue-Morse sequence studied as a fixed-point of 'stream zipping'
Larry Moss
- Hadamard matrices, maximal determinants, and codes
Will Orrick
- Braids and the Mandelbrot set
Kevin Pilgrim
REU Participants Summer 2008
From left to right: Sharon Ulery, Theodore Spaide, Carlo Angiuli, John Ullman, Samuel Ziegler, Anne Carter, Michael Grilli, Michael Meaden, Adam Vollrath
