Past REU Projects

2008 Projects

• Class number (Giuliana Davidoff)
• Phyllotaxis (Pau Atella)

2007 Projects

• Ramsey theory (Jillian McLeod)
• Number theory (Margaret Robinson)

2006 Projects

• Gauss' conjecture on equivalence classes of quadratic forms with positive discriminant (Giuliana Davidoff)
• Polynomial knots (Alan Durfee and Donal O'Shea)

2005 Projects

• Polytopes and toric varieties (Jessica Sidman)
• Number theory (Margaret Robinson)

2004 Projects

• Polynomial and rational knots (Alan Durfee and Donal O'Shea)
•  k-Regular Expander Graphs (Giuliana Davidoff)

2002 Projects

• Polynomial knots (Alan Durfee and Donal O'Shea)
• Number Theory (Margaret Robinson)

2001 Projects

• Markov Chain Monte Carlo. (George Cobb together with Yung-Pin Chen of Lewis and Clark College)
• Ramanujan graphs. (Giuliana Davidoff)

2000 Projects

• Difference sets in groups (Harriet Pollatsek)
• Polynomial knots. (Alan Durfee and Donal O'Shea)

1999 Projects

• Exponential Sums and Local Zeta Functions (Margaret Robinson)
• Models of turbulence (Mark Peterson)

1998 Projects

• Polynomial knots (Alan Durfee)
• Error-correcting codes (Giuliana Davidoff)

1997 Projects

• Algorithmic proofs of the Quillen-Suslin theorem (Donal O'Shea)
• P-adic analysis and local zeta functions (Margaret Robinson)

1996 Projects

• Curvature of algebraic singularities (Donal O'Shea)
• Weight distributions of certain generalized codes (Giuliana Davidoff)

1995 Projects

• Curvature of algebraic singularities (Alan Durfee)
• Local zeta functions (Margaret Robinson)