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.
Information on Travel Reimbursement
- The College has some money available to students for travel to conferences where they present posters or give talks. Go to the webpage for Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (CURI) for more information on the reimbursement procedure.
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.
Journals That Publish Undergraduate Research
- Furman University Electronic Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics: Papers written by undergraduates.
- Involve - A Journal of Mathematics: Involve publishes original, scholarly papers written by students at any level.
- 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 Pentagon: This is the journal of Kappa Mu Epsilon that publishes "outstanding" papers by undergraduate students.
- Pi Mu Epsilon Journal: Papers available here are written by or for undergraduates.
- Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal: This journal publishes research that has been done by undergraduate students in an area related to mathematics.
- SIAM This is a online journal that publishes undergraduate research in all areas of applied and computational mathematics.
- At St. Olaf: Every year, Professor Jill Dietz edits an in-house volume of mathematics research articles submitted by majors.
Published Work of Oles
- K.L. Nichol, K. Tummers, A. Hoyer-Leitzel, J. Marsh, M. Moynihan, et al, Modeling Seasonal Influenza Outbreak in a Closed College Campus--Impact of Pre-Season Vaccination, In-Season Vaccination and Holidays-Breaks, PLoS ONE 5(3) (2010).
- Joe Usset and Nathan Langholz, Counting Containment Partitions, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Math Journal 9 (2) (2008).
- Katie Evans and Trygve Wastvedt, A Combinatorial Proof of an Identity of Andrews, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Math Journal 9 (2) (2008).
- Daniel Endean, Kristin Henry, and Erin Manlove, Zero-divisor graphs of Zn and polynomial quotient rings over Zn, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Math 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 Math 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.