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REU program 2016 was held from May 25-July 20, 2016 in the area of Discrete Mathematics and Molecular Biology
| REU | Area of Research | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|
| Ibrahim Apata | RNA Folding | Morehouse College |
| Ida De Vierno | Meanders | Georgia Tech |
| Chelsea Huston | RNA Secondary Structures | Spelman College |
| Jason Kolbush | RNA Secondary Structures | Georgia Tech |
| Isabella Nang | Meanders | Georgia State University |
| Taylor Strickland | RNA Secondary Structures | Agnes Scott College |
REU program 2015 was held from June 1, 2015 through July 24, 2015.
| REU | Area of Research | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Rosahn Bhattari | Numerical Analysis | Georgia State University |
| Veronica Fulton* | Image Processing | Spelman College |
| Jamese Lewis | Numerical Analysis | Spelman College |
| Austin Little | Numerical Analysis | Morehouse College |
| Michael Mbaba | Image Processing | Morehouse College |
| Rachel Shore | Image Processing | Agnes Scott College |
*Veronica F Fulton received the 1st Place Oral Presentation Award, April, 2016 Spelman College Research Day.
| Summer 2013 GT REUs | ||
| Professor | Student | Topic |
| Yuri Bakhtin | Andrew Travis Rogers | Invariant distributions for systems with random switchings |
| Jeff Geronimo | Andrew Pangia | Toeplitz Matrices and Bivariate Orthogonal Polynomials |
| Mohammad Ghomi | Arun Jambulapati | Foldability of prismoids |
| Summer 2012 GT REUs | ||
| Professor | Student | Topic |
| Yuri Bakhtin | Gautam Goel | Burgers equation with random forcing |
| Ernie Croot | Nicholas Dunn | Improving the performance of algorithms to solve the knapsack problem |
| Wilfrid Gangbo | Ross Granowski | Boundedness properties of Michell trusses |
| Mohammad Ghomi | Andrew McCullough | Polyhedral approximation of surfaces and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem |
| Klara Grodzinsky | Andrea Crews | Determining the most beneficial teaching style: PLUS leaders vs. TAs |
| Doron Lubinsky | Nguyen Vy | Universality Limits for Arcs of the Unit Circle |
| Dan Margalit | Peter Woolfitt | Entropy Versus Word Length |
| Tom Morley | Roger Mercanti | A study of Roll over - a combinatorial game |
| Doug Ulmer | Sam Kim | Elliptic curves, group representations, and lattices |
| Xingxing Yu | Qiqin (Jill) Xie | Kuratowski's Theorem |
| Summer 2011 GT REUs | ||
| Professor | Student | Topic |
| Silas Alben | Brittany Smith | Optimal crawling of a three-link snake |
| Matt Baker | Melanie Dunn | Tropical implicitization |
| Jean Bellissard | Jon Paprocki | Applications of Cuntz-Krieger algebras to BPS state counting |
| Ernie Croot | Sean Murphy | Hidden Markov Models and Speech Recognition |
| Jeff Geronimo | Howard Tong | One and two variable orthogonal polynomials |
| Christine Heitsch | David Esposito | Improved RNA secondary structure prediction using stochastic context free grammars |
| Christine Heitsch | Stephen Nanney | Analyzing optimality criterion for RNA secondary structures prediction |
| Plamen Iliev | Andrew McCullough | Spectral and self-dual properties of Krawtchouk polynomials |
| Michael Lacey | Ross Granowski | Toward a Geometric Estimate of the Haar Coeffcients for the Periodically Shifted Halton-Hammersley Set in Four Dimensions |
| Anton Leykin/Josephine Yu | Henry Duong | Numerical computation of tropical curves |
| Doron Lubinsky | Trevor Loranger | Polynomials that are biorthogonal to a fixed set of exponentials |
| Tom Morley | Kathleen Sickler | Variations on Chomp |
| Prasad Tetali | David Hollis | Classical questions in computational complexity theory, with focus on circuit complexity for bipartite matching and other problems |
| Doug Ulmer | Mahadi Osman | Purity of Gauss and Jacobi sums |
| Summer 2010 GT REUs | ||
| Professor | Student | Topic |
| Silas Alben | Michiel Shortt | Some Interesting Variants on the Thomson Problem |
| Matt Baker | Melanie Dunn | Plotting Tropical Curves |
| Igor Belegradek | Melanie Stam | Families of Hyperplanes in the Real and Complex Hyperbolic Plane |
| Jean Bellissard | James (Greg) Douthit | Computation of the Spectrum of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian Using Bloch Theory |
| Jean Bellissard | Jonathan Paprocki | Phason Modes in Quasicrystals |
| Leonid Bunimovich | Mark Bolding | Rewiring in Dynamical Networks |
| Ernie Croot | David Hollis | Deterministic Methods to Find Primes |
| Ernie Croot | David Lowry | Deterministic Methods to Find Primes |
| Jeff Geronimo | Philip Benge | Parameters Associated with Bivariate Bernstein-Szego Measures |
| Plamen Iliev | Michael Qin | Admissible q-Difference Operators in Two Variables |
| Tom Morley | John Cummings | Computations in combinatorial games |
| Prasad Tetali | Harrison Brown | Graph Homomorphisms and a Graph Polynomial Conjecture |
| Xingxing Yu | Michelle Delcourt | Sum-set Bounds on Graphs |
| Summer 2009 GT REUs | ||
| Professor | Student | Topic |
| Silas Alben | Leo Chen | Stability of an elastic sheet with vortices |
| Silas Alben | Reginald McGee | Optimizing a fin ray for strength |
| Yuri Bakhtin | Dustin Burns | |
| Ernie Croot | Nathaniel Chen | Number of problems about whether certain sets contain arithmetic progressions |
| Ernie Croot | William Drobny | Counting the number of lines that intersect an n x n lattice in exactly k points |
| Christine Heitsch | Joshua Anderson | Discrete mathematics applied to mRNA codon variation and folding kinetics |
| Plamen Iliev | Hau Chan | Orthogonal polynomials satisfying second-order difference equations |
| Doron Lubinsky | John Reinhardt | Second and higher order differential equations associated with orthogonal polynomials |
| Henry Matzinger | Vladimir Kolesov | Analysing responses to a questionnarie by using decision trees |
| Tom Morley | Ben Sirb | Investigations in game theory |
| Prasad Tetali | Aisha Arroyo | G-Parking functions of special graphs |
| Maria Westdickenberg Sung Ha Kang |
Jing Cui* | Anisotropic diffusion and the Perona-Malik scheme |
| Maria Westdickenberg Sung Ha Kang |
Chuya Guo* | Numerical methods for isotropic and non-isotropic diffusion, including total variation denoising |
| Maria Westdickenberg Sung Ha Kang |
Tarik Trent | Shock filter and variational models for image deblurring, including the case of non-isotropic blur kernels |
| Maria Westdickenberg Sung Ha Kang |
Janatta Washington | Principal component analysis, SVD and image analysis |
| Yingfei Yi | Racheal Lunde | Modeling, simulation, and analysis of chemical reactions with applications to cell-biology |
| *Not funded by NSF grants | ||
| Summer 2008 GT REUs | ||
| Silas Alben | Daniel Yancey | Effect of fin shape on the dynamics of flexible rubber fins in a flow tunnel |
| Silas Alben | Josh Anderson | Collective motions of magnetic swimmers |
| Silas Alben | Kevin Spears (math/bio) | Modeling synchronous and metachronal swimming of krill |
| Matt Baker | Stefan Froehlich | Brill-Noether theory for graphs |
| Matt Baker | Daniel Connelly | Green's functions for Mandelbrot-like sets |
| Yuri Bakhtin | Spencer Nettleton | Directed polymers in random environment |
| Igor Belegradek | Cindy Phillips | Complex Hyperbolic Plane in Cylindrical Coordinates about the Real Hyperbolic Plane |
| Johan Belinfante | William Drobney | Zorn's Lemma |
| Luca Dieci | Abhishek Pandey | Exploration of the Deterministic and Stochastic Van Der Pol Equation |
| Christine Heistch | Nicole Larsen | Enumerating Pseudoknotted RNA Structures |
| Doron Lubinsky | Nicholas McKibben Sanders | Curious q-series on the unit circle |
| Tom Morley | Patrick Brandt | Markov chains and music |
| Prasad Tetali | Robert Glenn | On sampling spanning trees with no broken circuits |
| Hao Min Zhou/Shui-Nee Chow | Fei He | Computations of stochastic different equations for oscillators |
| Summer 2007 GT REUs | ||
| Ernie Croot | Aisha Aroyo | Develop basic integer factoring algorithms |
| Ernie Croot | Jonathan Eisen | Improve upon more basic integer factoring methods |
| John McCuan | Arthur J. Friend Rob Ward |
Exotic capillary tubes (ordinary differential equations, physics and mean curvature) |
| Prasad Tetali | Brian Benson | G-parking functions and acyclic orientations of graphs |
| Summer 2006 GT REUs | ||
| Matt Baker | Dragos Ilas | On the Abel-Jacobi Map from a Graph to its Jacobian |
| Matt Baker | Ander Steel | Carmichael numbers in number rings |
| Johan Belinfante | Lee Martie | GOEDEL |
| Shui-Nee Chow | D. Andrew Brown | Study of control of a nonlinear system modeling a terrorist attack |
| John Etnyre | Gokhan Civan | Invariants derived from the contact homology differential graded algebra |
| Mohammad Ghomi | Robert Vincent DeMarco | The Four Vertex Theorem and the Extension of its Converse to the Sphere |
| Mohammad Ghomi | Brian Nakamura | Alexandrov's conjecture |
| Lew Lefton | Darshan Bryner | The Homology of 17-Crossing Knots: A Computational Approach to Knot Theory |
| Doron Lubinsky | Beth Hart | Rodrigues formulae for biorthogonal polynomials |
| John McCuan | Steven Britt Laura Stilz |
A Mathematical Framework for Paper Folding |
| Tom Morley | Garrett Thompson | Searching for Periodicity in the Game of Officers |
| Tom Morley | Emanuel Indrea | Markov Chains and Traffic Analysis |
| Robin Thomas | Masanori Koyama | An Algebraic Approach to a Graph Choosability Problem |
| Yang Wang | Brian Benson | An Analysis of the Three Hat Problem |
| Summer 2005 GT REUs | ||
| Matt Baker | Ander Steele | Carmichael numbers in Abelian extension fields |
| Matt Baker | Matthew Tanzy | Minimizing the effective resistance energy on a graph |
| Johan Belinfante | Claudia Huang | Automated reasoning assistant GOEDEL and Peano's arithmetic |
| Ernie Croot | Brian Williams | Small roots of polynomials modulo squarefree numbers |
| Ernie Croot | Brian Swanagan | Determining lower bounds for differences of powers of 2 and 3 using Pade Approximations |
| Jeff Geronimo | Nick Cotton | Numerical analysis of an Epsilon-Difference Equation |
| C. Houdré, L. Peng | Alexander Block | Credit risk modeling |
| Lew Lefton | Darshan Bryner | Parallel computing in various mathematical algorithms |
| Yingjie Liu | Carina Saxton | Simulation of plankton ecosystem dynamics in oceans |
| Doron Lubinsky | Ioana Soran | Orthogonal and biorthogonal polynomials |
| John McCuan | Alan Diaz | A geometric method for measuring the structure of optical fibers |
| Peter Mucha | A. J. Friend | A local community detection algorithm for weighted real-world networks |
| Tom Trotter | Bill March | On-line coloring of interval graphs |
| Yang Wang | Charles Martin | Basic digit sets: Investigations and applications |
| Summer 2004 GT REU | ||
| Shui Nee Chow | Caroline Seabrook Stephanie Chung |
Pattern Formation |
| Ernie Croot | Bayazid Sarkar | Fermat Numbers |
| John McCuan | Jeffrey Elms | Soap Films in Corners |
| Mason Porter Leonid Bunimovich |
Julie Bjornstad Alexie Dachevski |
Mathematical Biology |
| Dana Randall | Brittany Hughes | Markov Chains |
| Robin Thomas | Matt Perry | Topics in Graph Theory |
| Hou Min Zhou | Robert Pruvenok | Image Processing |
| Summer 2003 GT REUs | ||
| Shui-Nee Chow/Mason Porter | Jeremy Corbett | Numerical Work in Spatial Temporal Chaos |
| Michael Lacey | Brandon Luders Alex Charis |
Additive Number Theory |
| Peter Mucha | Casey Warmbrand | Political Network Theory |
| Peter Mucha | Thomas Callaghan | Football Network Theory |
| Mason Porter | Steven Lansel | Computer Simulation of Billiard Systems |
| Robin Thomas | Michael Abraham | Topics in Graph Theory |
| Summer 2002 GT REUs | ||
| Peter Mucha | Michael Abraham | Small World Networks, on the Bewoulf Cluster |
| John McCuan | Roberto Lopez Jeffery Elms |
ACE Lab, Electrostatics |
| John Pelesko | Ryan Hynd | ACE Lab, Electromagnetics |
| Joe Landsberg | Erika Norenberg | Morse Theory |
| Joe Landsberg | Joe Montgomery | Degenerate Gauss Maps on Algebraic Varieties |
| Johan Belinfante | David Eger | Artificial Intelligence |
| Xingxing Yu | Jeremy Barrett | Algebraic and Topological Aspects of Graphs |
| Prasad Tetali | David Skoog | Random Codes |
| Margeret Symington | Andy Wand | Contact Topology |
| Anthony Yezzi | Ganesh Sundaramoorthi | Electrostatics Charge, Image Segmentation |
| Prasad Tetali | Boris Kerzhner | Random Codes |
| Summer 2001 GT REUs | ||
| Evans Harrell | Clark Alexander | Convex Geometry |
| Chris Heil | Nick Bronn | Time Frequency Analysis |
| Michael Lacey | Nick Bronn | Sets avoiding Arithmetic Progression |
| Prasad Tetali | Blair Dowling | Elliptic Curves, Cryptography |
| Brendan Nagle | Erika Norenberg | Hypergraphs |
| Johan Belinfante | Tack Soo Im | Automated Reasoning |