Undergraduate Research

Conferences Where Undergraduates Can Present Research

• Math Fest: The Mathematical Association of America sponsors Math Fest every summer. Student paper submissions are welcomed.

• RUMC: Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conferences. Through the NSF, the MAA is able to offer funding to institutions so that they may hold regional conferences for undergraduates to present their work.

• Joint Math Meetings: These national meetings are annually held by the AMS and MAA in early January. The event includes exhibits, courses, social events, and networking and employment opportunities.

• Pi Mu Epsilon Regional Conferences: Pi Mu Epsilon holds a regional conference in the fall at St. Norbert College (link) in De Pere, WI, and in the spring at St. Johns University (link) in Collegeville, MN, near St. Cloud.

• Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln holds an annual conference geared toward undergraduate women in mathematics.

REU: Research Experience for Undergraduates

• NSF Sponsored REUs: The National Science Foundation sponsors research at colleges and universities. See a list of schools currently receiving funding for REU programs from the NSF.

• Summer Research at St. Olaf

Journals That Publish Undergraduate Research

• Involve - A Journal of Mathematics: Involve publishes original, scholarly papers written by students at any level.

• Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal: This journal publishes research that has been done by undergraduate students in an area related to mathematics.

• Pi Mu Epsilon Journal: Papers available here are written by or for undergraduates.

• SIAM SIAM is a online journal that publishes undergraduate research in all areas of applied and computational mathematics.

• Furman University Electronic Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics: Papers written by undergraduates.

• Morehead Electronic Journal of Applicable Mathematics: These papers are not typical undergraduate papers. They accept papers that are rather mathematical and show interdisciplinary and applied topics.

• The Official Journal of Kappa Mu Epsilon: This group publishes "outstanding" papers by undergraduate students.

• At St. Olaf: Every year, Professor Jill Dietz edits an in-house volume of research articles submitted by math majors.

Published Work of Oles

• Combinatorial Proofs:
  • Counting Containment Partitions, Joe Usset and Nathan Langholz
  • A Combinatorial Proof of an Identity of Andrews, Katie Evans and Trygve Wastvedt

• Prize Winning Paper: The linked webpage describes the paper published by Christina Koch after an REU.

• Some Papers Written By Students of Professor Jill Dietz:
  • Daniel Endean, Kristin Henry, and Erin Manlove, Zero-divisor graphs of Zn and polynomial quotient rings over Zn, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Research Journal 8 (2) (2007).
  • Stephanie Libera and Paul Tlucek, Perfect order subset groups, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, 11 (2003), 495-498. This paper won the 3rd place Richard V. Andree Award.
  • Eric Wilbur, Topspin: Solvability of sliding number games, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Research Journal, 2 (2) (2001).
  • Mark Schulte, Automorphisms of metacyclic p-groups with cyclic maximal subgroups, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Research Journal, 2 (2), (2001).
  • Mark Afdahl, Gretchen Christianson, Jill Dietz, Alfred Furth, Kirsten Knudson, and Sarah Volkenant, The probability that two elements in an extra-special p-group commute, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, 11 (2001), 169–173.
  • Nitish Dass, Jonathan McGrath, and Erin Urbanski, The determinant of a (m; n) pretzel, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, 11 (2000), 135–137. This paper won a 2000 Richard V. Andree Award.