Summer REU program
Our eight week summer REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program began in 1995 and is one of the biggest in the country. In 2003 there were 21 participants (receiving a stipend and room and board on the Tulane campus). Twelve of these were supported by Slawek Kwasiks NSF grant, and worked in Geometry/Topology; eight more were supported by a Louisiana Board of Regents grant to Morris Kalka, and 3 were supported by an NSF grant to Ricardo Cortez. Some participants were Tulane students, but most were from elsewhere.
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In the summer of 2004 the program was expanded to include VIGRE / REU groups in Applied Mathematics and Statistics and an entirely new subprogram, the RET (Research Experience for Teachers pictured at the left). The eight high-school teachers studied topics in noneuclidean geometry under the supervision Morris Kalka and Slawek Kwasik. The slides of their final presentation are available here. The Applied Math group heard a series of lectures by Wei-Ming Ni (University of Minnesota) concerning the effect of diffusion on behavior of solutions of reaction-diffusion equations. Phenomena such as Turings diffusion-driven instability, cross-diffusion, diffusion-induced extinction or blow-up and chemotaxis were studied theoretically and numerically. Their final report was "Stability of nonconstant
steady-state solutions to reaction-diffusion equations in star-shaped
domains". They were supervised by Xuefeng Wang and postdoc John Alford. The Statistics group heard lectures by Professor Mark Glicksman (Boston University School of Business). Their research was supervised by John Liukkonen and postoc Zach Dietz. (Undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty all participated in the two VIGRE / REU groups.) Ricardo Cortez supervised three students at the Center for Computational Science in a six week group project: Interpolation kernels that satisfy discrete moment conditions. One student was a Tulane undergraduate and the others were from Puerto Rico and Lafayette, LA. Finally, Slawek Kwasiks NSF grant supported 13 REU students in Geometry/Topology. Dagang Yang and Morris Kalka also worked with these students. Next summer the VIGRE / REU program will support four students in Algebra / Theoretical Computer Science and four students in Topology / Geometry. AT LEFT: Applied Math VIGRE / REU with graduate students and postdoc mentor John Alford. Apologies to all the REU students whose pictures have been omitted. They will be posted elsewhere. |
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Clifford Lectures and Colloquium series in the 20032004 academic year
Our annual Clifford Lectures featured a week-long series of lectures on Symplectic Field Theory and its Applications by Professor Yakov Eliashberg from Stanford University. The lectures were accompanied by the 2004 Clifford Conference Holomorphic Curves: Algebra, Geometry, and Analysis.
For the list of last years Colloquium visitors, see 2003-2004 Colloquium.
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A senior project
Xuefeng
Wang supervised Birka Wicke's senior project. Birka is going to graduate school in
the Netherlands in an environmental science program related to modeling done in
the project.
Clifford Lectures and Colloquium series
In the academic year 2003-2004 our annual Clifford Lectures featured a week-long series of lectures on Symplectic Field Theory and its Applications by Professor Yakov Eliashberg from Stanford University. The lectures were accompanied by the 2004 Clifford Conference Holomorphic Curves: Algebra, Geometry, and Analysis.
The Clifford Lecturer for
2004-2005 will be Jonathan Borwein
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