Basic Information

After a two-year hiatus, pending support, we plan to reboot the REU program for Summer 2019.

Students will typically work in groups of 3-4 with a faculty advisor from SUNY Potsdam or Clarkson University. The program will tentatively run for eight weeks (June and July). Participants will receive a stipend plus free housing in an on-campus apartment. Funds are available for travel expenses to/from Potsdam.

Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States.

Student must be full-time undergraduate students. Applicants should have completed the calculus sequence, linear algebra and at least one more upper-level undergraduate course.

The program will be conducted on the campus of SUNY College at Potsdam, with the resources of nearby Clarkson University also available. SUNY Potsdam is widely known for its undergraduate mathematics program, and Clarkson University has a strong commitment for scientific research.

Interested applicants should submit their application materials via MathPrograms.

We strongly encourage applications from minorities, women, people with disabilities, and students from schools with limited research opportunities.

Topics

Topics to be explored (along with suggested background courses) are listed below. We have also included some representative problems for each group. These problems are completely optional but we encourage applicants to submit their solutions (in PDF format) as a separate email to our REU gmail address.

• Algebraic Graph Theory and Quantum Computing (Advisor: Christino Tamon)
  Suggested background: Graph Theory (Discrete Mathematics), Abstract/Linear Algebra, Real Analysis.
  Optional: submit a solution to the following question if interested in this area: problem.

• Other topics: to be announced soon.

Further information

Our REU profile
National Science Foundation
American Mathematical Society