University of Chicago VIGRE REU 2007
- 2007 REU: Announcement and description of the program
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- 2007 REU: Abstracts of the course offerings
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- 2007 REU: Application
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- 2007 REU: Preference Form
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- 2007 REU: Undergraduate student lists and job assignments
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- 2007 REU: Graduate student lists and job assignments
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- 2007 REU: List of mentorship pairings and email addresses
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- 2007 REU: Schedule for weeks 1 and 2
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- 2007 REU: Schedule for weeks 3 and 4
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- 2007 REU: Schedule for weeks 5 and 6
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- 2007 REU: Schedule for weeks 7 and 8
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2007 REU: PARTICIPANT PAPERS -- FULL PROGRAM
- Harry Altman: Two coordinatization theorems for projective planes
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- Steve Balady: A Peter May picture book, Part 1
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- Emily Bargar: Not quite number theory
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- Padraic Bartlett: Triads and topos theory
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- Sarah Bennett: The Gertrude Stein theorem
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- David Berger: Introduction to Brownian motion:
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- Chad Casarotto: Markov chains and the ergodic theorem
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- Logan Chariker: The inverse Galois problem, Hilbertian fields,
and Hilbert's irreducibility theorem
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- Fan Fei Chong: A solution to Berlekamp's switching game
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- David Cohen: The c unit distance graph
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- Corrin Clarkson: Riemann surfaces
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- Sarah Constantin: Collections of simple closed curves intersecting
at most once
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- Lucas Culler: The Kronecker-Weber theorem
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- Andy Eisenberg: A combinatorial approach to pants decompositions
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- Nicolas Ford: A model-theoretic proof of Hilbert's Nullstellensatz
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- Daniel Gardner: Topological background to the Weil conjectures
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- Gabriel Gaster: Class numbers of number rings: existence
and computations
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- Arpit Gupta: Recursion and random walks
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- Drew A. Hudec: The Grassmannian as a projective variety
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- Adam Kaye: Two-dimensional orbifolds
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- Suyeon Khim: The Frobenius-Perron theorem
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- R. Andrew Kreek: Closed curves on hyperbolic manifolds
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- R. Andrew Kreek: Surface groups
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- Grant Larsen: Generalized factorization
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- Le Chen: An investigation of the planarity condition of
Grotzsch's theorem
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- Carmel Levy: A prelude to Euler's pentagonal number theorem
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- Calvin Lin Zhiwei: Dirichlet's theorem
- Alice Mark: Distinguishing sets under group actions,
the wreath product action
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- James Marrone: Representations of Lie algebras, with
applications to particle physics
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- Jean Morrison: Tesselating the hyperbolic plane
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- Alexander Munk: Basic results concerning Brownian motion
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- Prerna Nadathur: An introduction to homology
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- Yana Peysakhovich: The fundamental theorem of games
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- Robert Prag: A brief summary of modular representation theory
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- Sam Raskin: The Weil conjectures for curves
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- Edward Ruggeri: Cryptography in an unconventional model
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- Max Shron: Twist & shout: exploring isometries of
hyperbolic surfaces
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- Andries Smith: Introduction to the topology of continuous
dynamical systems
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- Brian Taylor: Irreducible representations of the symmetric
group
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- Mike Thvedt: The Dirac and Weyl spinor representations
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- Brooke Ullery: Regular graphs of a given girth
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- Alexander Volfovsky: Markov chains and applications
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- Katie Waddle: Group actions on trees
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- Matthew Woolf: Teichmuller space
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- Qian Zhang: Quasirandomness and Gowers' theorem
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2007 REU: PARTICIPANT PAPERS -- APPRENTICE PROGRAM
- William C. Abram: A new perspective on the continuum
hypothesis: why Freiling's axiom of symmetry is irrelevant
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- Dylan G.L. Allegretti: Constructing Frobenius algebras
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- Adam Anderson: Kan extensons and nonsensical generalizations
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- Elan Bechor: Analytic properties of Brownian motion
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- Michael Calderbank: The RSA cryptosystem: history, algorithm, primes
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- Daniel Cervone: Density of diagonalizable square matrices
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- Catherine Easton: RSA
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- Eugene Eyeson: An analytic proof of the Rogers-Ramanujan identities
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- Hannah Gordon: The neo-Riemannian group
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- Austin M. Gross: Unconventional space-filling curves
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- Eric Jaffe: Linearly independent integer roots over the scalar field Q
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- Ethan Jerzak: Categories and natural transformations
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- Ryan Julian: Fourier analysis and the Dirichlet problem
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- William Leeb: The Nagata-Smirnov metrization theorem
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- Scott Messick: Limits in category theory
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- Jamie Morgenstern: Graph theory
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- Bo Peng: The determinant: a means to calculate volume
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- Jimmy Salvatore: Bipartite graphs and problem solving
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- Honi Sanders: Arrow's impossibility theorem of social choice
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- Michael Travis: The mathematics of the Rubik's cube
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- Tengren Zhang: Helly's theorem
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2007 REU: Other participant topics -- APPRENTICE PROGRAM
- Beau Dabbs: All convex polyhedra are homeomorphic to the sphere
- Katayun Kamdin: Jordan normal form
- Satoru Kudose: Traveler's dilemma
- Chenchuan Li: On the fundamental group of a generalized lens space
- Cong Han Lim: Brief introduction on stack sorting
- Ellen McCullagh: Dehn twists
- Matt Olson: Differentiability of Brownian motion
- Andrew Poppick: Balancing numbers problem
- Gideon Tan: Alternative solution to a problem in combinatorics