Research Experiences for Undergraduate Mathematics: Modeling and Industrial Applied Mathematics

About the Program: The Department of Mathematics at North Carolina State University established a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program to provide a rich applied mathematics research experience to a diverse population of undergraduate students that will encourage them to continue their academic programs to the graduate level and will help them in making more informed decisions about their academic or nonacademic careers. This REU program, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency, targets rising senior and exceptional rising junior mathematics majors who have demonstrated academic excellence.

Program Activities: The mathematics REU program is a ten-week program that starts from the beginning of June through the beginning of August each year. During this period, approximately 6 teams of three to four students will work collaboratively with program faculty and industrial partners. Topics to be explored include a new industrially sponsored project by Calabazas Creek Research, Inc. (design of electron devices using computer optimization), biomathematics (blood flow models, cartilage, menstrual cycle, infectious diseases, etc.), material science (smart materials and optimal chutes), financial mathematics, symbolic computation and Weyl groups, data mining, and computer vision.

For more information:

Professor Aloysius G. Helminck

REU Director

Department of Mathematics

Campus Box 8205

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695-8205

Phone: (919) 515-7720

Fax: (919) 513-7336

E-mail: loek@math.ncsu.edu

Website: www.math.ncsu.edu/mathREU/index.html