UW-Math REUers in the news

Check out the article on our REUers at:

http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=44302&from=newssend

Monday

Monday morning the students worked in groups. After lunch students visited the fly eye lab and heard from Steven Barrett. They got to see one of the graduate students working on a fly in the lab as well as some of the sensors that they have built as a result of their research.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Wednesday morning students worked in groups. After lunch Michael Pernice talked about the work going on at Idaho National Lab and answered some good questions about the work.

Thursday morning students worked in groups. At 2:00 the students presented their work and progress. Next week will be the final presentations and they will have to lay out their progress for a more broad audience.

Friday morning we left for Golden Colorado at 7:15. We made it to the NREL (National Renewable Energy Lab) by 10:00 and were given an idea of some of the advances being made at the lab. We then went to Colorado Mills for lunch and also indoor black light mini golf! After mini golf we proceeded to the NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research). Students were given the opportunity to walk around the exhibits in the public portion of NCAR and also hike in the flatirons if they wanted. Some stayed behind and hopefully had some fun in Boulder.

Week 8 Schedule

Monday:

Morning: Work in groups
Afternoon: Cam Wright 3-4 RH 247

Tuesday:

Morning: Work in groups
Afternoon: GRE Algebra review 3-4

Wednesday:

Morning: Work in groups
                 11:00 Conferences, scholarships, etc. RH 247
Afternoon: Work in groups

Thursday:

Morning: Work in groups
Afternoon: Final presentations 2-4

Friday:

Morning: Wrap up 8:30-9:45 am

Monday and Tuesday Week 7

Hello all I'm back from the conference in Iowa. On Monday students worked in their groups. On Tuesday morning the students kept working in groups. After lunch on Tuesday some of the students attended Mike Presho's dissertation defense, they got to see what is expected from your defense public presentation. After the opportunity for questions the public was asked to leave and the committee met with Mike alone. Students then continued to work on their projects.

Schedule for Week 7

Monday:

Work in Groups

Tuesday:

Morning: Work in Groups
Afternoon: (Optional) Dissertation Defense (Mike Presho, Uncertainty Quantification in Porous Media Fluid Flow) 1:00 Classroom Building room 214

Wednesday:

Morning: Work in Groups
Afternoon: One Talk 3:30

Thursday:

Morning: Work in Groups
Afternoon: Group Reports 2:00

Friday:

Field trip to NREL Golden, CO depart at 7:00 am

Schedule for Week 6

Tuesday:

Professional Development- Michelle Chamberlin (4:00)

Wednesday:

Mathematical Games and Puzzles (2:00-3:00)

Thursday:

Horseback riding and hiking (9:00-1:00)

Friday:

Presentations (10:00-11:30)

Wednesday

Wednesday morning students worked in groups. After lunch Farhad Jafari presented the students with an introduction to Complex Analysis in several variables. Farhad spent some time reminding/ teaching the students about Complex Analysis in a single variable. He gave them a good foundation for their next encounter with this subject.

Monday and Tuesday

Monday students worked on their respective projects in groups.

Tuesday morning students continued working. After lunch Charlie Angevine gave the students some practice GRE problems from Calculus III. Charlie worked through the problems on the board and reminded the students of some of the techniques that were used in Calculus III.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Wednesday morning students attended the RMMC or worked in their groups. After lunch Dave Meyer talked about his research in engineering control theory.

Thursday morning students attended the RMMC or worked in their groups. After lunch students gave presentations about their current research positions. It sounds like you are all making good progress and we look forward to some great results in the near future.

Friday students attended the RMMC and worked in their groups all day. Have a wonderful 4th of July weekend everyone!

Schedule for Week 5

Monday:

Group work

Tuesday:

GRE prep (2:00-4:00)

Wednesday:

Farhad Jafari, title TBA (2:00)

Thursday:

Presentations (in Beamer) (10:00-11:30)
Visit from Dept of Defense employees (3:00-4:30)

Friday:

Group meetings

Tuesday

This morning students went to the RMMC and met in their groups. After lunch students met with Beth Buskirk, Bryan Shader, Michael Stoellinger and Colin Garnett about applying for graduate school. Students then worked in groups. Tuesday evening some of the students went out to Taco Tuesday at Corona Village, good fun times! We're looking forward to hearing reports on progress Thursday!

Monday

This morning students worked in groups or attended the RMMC. After lunch students met with some of the professors involved with the RMMC. They discussed graduate school and research. After the meeting students worked in their groups.

Schedule for Week 4

Monday:

Morning: RMMC lectures
Afternoon: Special session for REU students with Blake Temple and Peter Lax (1:00-2:30)

Tuesday:

Morning: RMMC lectures
Afternoon: Graduate school ins and outs with graduate students and Beth Buskirk (2:00-3:00)

Wednesday:

Morning: RMMC lectures
Afternoon: Dave Meyer presentation (3:30-5:00)

Thursday:

Morning: RMMC lectures
Afternoon: Student Presentations (2:00)
Farhad Jafari (4:00)(Rescheduled for next week)

Friday:

Morning: RMMC lectures
Afternoon: Group meetings

Friday

Friday Morning students worked in their groups. After lunch Peter Lax gave a lecture for the RMMC. After the talk Colin gave an introduction to the beamer package for LaTeX which thankfully for the students was short, but hopefully informative. Have a great Weekend!

Wednesday and Thursday

Wednesday students worked in their groups and have made some good progress. Thursday students worked in groups in the morning. After lunch Blake Temple gave two lectures for the RMMC and students were encouraged to attend.

Tuesday

Tuesday morning the RMMC started with lectures by the two main speakers, first H.K. Jenssen followed by J. Rossmanith. After lunch students worked in their groups. At 2:00 Eric Moorhouse gave a presentation about giving a math talk. I will email the notes from his talk to you if you would like them. The students then went back to their groups to work some more.

Monday

This morning students worked in their groups. After lunch Bryan Shader met with the students and gave them an idea of what the schedule is for the next two weeks. He also had a video about how to write mathematics badly, which didn't work due to technical difficulties, he has sent the link out in an email for the students. The next two weeks will be mostly the RMMC for the students and some talks in the afternoons.

Thursday and Friday

Thursday morning students gave 20 minute presentations about their research. Each went well and any specific comments will be given by the faculty to each group. After lunch Myron Allen gave a talk about writing mathematics. It will be important that you keep these tips in mind when you are writing up your projects for the summer.

Friday morning students met in groups. After lunch Mike Bostick came in and gave an introduction the Math subject GRE. I was unable to attend, but heard that it went well! We will be giving three more presentations about the Math subject GRE, one for each of the major topics on the exam. Be on the look out for the presentation on Calculus given by Charlie Angevine.

Tuesday and Wednesday

Tuesday morning students worked in groups. After lunch David Anton gave an introduction to LaTeX, any specific questions that come up can be addressed to David, Colin, or your faculty adviser/ graduate student adviser. The students then went to a presentation by Guo Qingping.

Wednesday morning students worked in groups. We met with the Chemistry REU for the final ethics in science luncheon. Students were then given instructions about how to register and fill out information for CITI so that we will be in compliance with NSF guidelines. Please complete this course as soon as possible. After lunch groups met again and prepared for the presentation on Thursday.

The Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium Summer School kicks off on Tuesday.

The scheduled group activities for this week are given below.
Unless otherwise indicated the talks are in the Classroom Building, Room 140.

Monday June 21

           2:10-3:00  Poof vs Proof
           Ross Hall 247

 Tuesday
             8:00-9:40 Formulating balance laws
         10:05-11:15  Finite Volume Methods for 1D Scalar Equations
           1:30 - 2:30 Problem & Discussion Session
            5:30 -7:30 Welcome Picnic/Reception
                              Washington Park
Wednesday
             8:30-9:40 Finite Volume Methods for 1D Systems

         10:05-11:15 Formulating balance laws & Scalar equations
           1:30 - 2:30 Problem & Discussion Session
           3:00 - 4:00  Problem & Discussion Session
Thursday
 
            8:30-9:40 Scalar Equations
        10:05-11:15 Multidimensional Finite Volume Mehtods
          1:30 - 2:30 Guest Lecturer, Blake Temple on Numerical Simulation of GR Shock Waves
          3:00 - 4:00  Guest Lecturer, Blake Temple on General Relativistic Self-Similar Waves & 
                             Cosmology

Friday
              8:30-9:40  Systems of equations
          10:05-11:15  Guest Lecturer Blake Temple on Nonlinear Time-Periodic Sound Waves
              2:00 -3:00 The Beamer package for presenting math talks.

Saturday
                Hiking excursions to Snowy Range (details to be discussed in RMMC sessions).

Monday

Monday morning students worked with their groups. After lunch students had the opportunity to meet some of the graduate students in the department. We talked about the pros and cons of our own graduate school experiences, no professors were present and so hopefully students got a good feeling for the truth of graduate school. For the REU students, if there are any questions that you did not get answered or think of later let me know and we will address these questions when we meet with Beth Buskirk and the graduate students again.

After the meeting with graduate students we adjourned and students got back to their projects.

Friday and the weekend

All of Friday, students met with their groups and worked with Long and Victor on their projects. We can't wait to see what they have come up with during their Thursday presentations.

On Saturday we made an unsuccessful attempt at hiking at Vedauwoo, the rain was too much for us. We ended up going bowling and playing pool instead. On Sunday Bryan and Chanyoung invited students and all those involved with the REU over for a barbecue which I trust was successful.

Schedule for Week 2 (June 14-18)

Monday:

Morning:
Group Meetings (scheduled by Victor and Long)

Afternoon:
(2:00) Meet the graduate students, an introduction to graduate school and what to expect as a graduate student.
Group meetings as scheduled.

Tuesday:

Morning:
Group Meetings

Afternoon:
Group Meetings
(3:00) An introduction to LaTeX with David Anton.
(4:10) Guest lecturer: Guo Qingping from Wuhan University of Technology, Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm of Inverse Heat Conduction Problem

Wednesday:

Morning:
Group Meetings
Lunch: (12:30-2:00) Ethics

Afternoon:
Group Meetings

Thursday:

Morning:
(9:00-10:00) Research Reports (Students report on their progress so far)

Afternoon:
Group Meetings
(3:00) Writing Mathematics, Myron Allen

Friday:

Morning:
Group Meetings

Afternoon:
(2:00)An introduction to the Math subject GRE, Mike Bostick.
Group Meetings

Thursday

Thursday morning students were given an introduction to each of the three projects and given the opportunity to select which of the three they preferred. It turned out that the students split directly into two groups each with four students, so there will be two projects this year.

After lunch the students split into their groups and started on the projects. At 4:00 Ye Zhang from the geology department came in and gave a lecture about Upscaling & Model Complexity in Subsurface Flow, this helped to show the importance of a good model in real world applications.

Tuesday and Wednesday

Tuesday morning Long Lee gave a more in depth look at Partial Differential Equations and how they will be used in the projects. After lunch Harish Gopalan gave an introduction to the cluster and how to access the cluster. Long Lee followed this by an introduction to CLAWPACK (Conservation Law Package) for calculating the solution to PDEs. Long then went on to talk about renormalization groups and the application to PDEs.

Wednesday morning Victor Ginting talked about a more theoretical approach to PDEs with the finite element method. The students then went to lunch with the Chemistry REU. Bryan Shader and John Hoberg acted out a scenario and students were given the opportunity to participate in a mock PhD oral exam. After lunch Victor continued his presentation with an introduction to Matlab and more about the Finite element method. At 4:00 students visited Mohammad Piri's lab in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. Mohammad Piri injects various fluids (oil, gas, water, etc...) into various rock samples and maps the result of injection using a CT scan. This lab is the only of its kind in the world and it was a treat to visit such a well designed, well run lab.

REU Begins!

Today marks the first day of UW Math REU 2010. We began the day with a bingo ice-breaker bright and 8 am early! Bryan then laid out the plan for the REU this year, we hope to achieve these goals and get some publications out there. After the break Greg Lyng gave an introduction to PDE's and some of the main topics to be considered in our program.

After lunch the students met and did some paperwork (woo-hoo) and all that fun jazz! We then took a campus tour, got bikes and parking permits. Colin and Katrina then gave a rousing tour of Laramie and we went on a short warm-up walk to help prepare for the hike on Saturday. If anyone has questions about Laramie, or the university feel free to contact Colin. We will see everyone bright and early tomorrow morning!

Immersion notetakers

Here's the schedule for Immersion note-taking.

Immersion 1 (Monday): Tim & Emilie
Immersion 2 (Tuesday morning): Stefan & Elliot
Immersion 3 (Tuesday afternoon): Nitin and Kelly
Immersion 4 (Wednesday morning): Derek and Ashley
Immersion 5 (Wednesday afternoon): Tim and Emilie
Project 1 (Thursday morning): Stefan and Elliot
Project 2 (Thursday monring): Nitin and Kelly

Please work with your partner to put together a nice set of
notes by the following day.  Give your notes to Colin or Bryan to post on
the web.

Schedule for first week

Schedule
REU 2010 Week #1
Unless noted otherwise, meetings are in Ross Hall 247

Monday, June 7
Morning (8:00-11:30)
Introductions & Ice-Breaker
Program overview
Immersion 1 (Greg)
Math Collaboratory
Afternoon
1:00 Orientation & Puzzles
2:30 Tour of UW campus-check out bikes
4:00 Tour of Laramie: Bike trails, parks, grocery stores, WalMart, downtown

Tuesday, June 8
Morning (8:00-11:30)
Immersion
Math Collaboratory
Professional Development: MatLab
Afternoon (1:00-5:00)
Immersion
Math Collaboratory
Professional Development: UNIX & CLAWPACK

Wednesday, June 9
Morning (8:00-11:30)
Immersion
Math Collaboratory
Lunch (12:30-2:00) Ethics with Chemistry
Afternoon (2:00-5:00)
Immersion
Math Collaboratory
Visit to the Three-Phase Flow in Porous Media and
Computed Tomography, EnCana Research Laboratory

Thursday, June 10
Morning (8:00-11:30)
Project descriptions
Professional Development (What is research?, Online, library resources)
Afternoon (1:00-5:00)
Initial group meetings
Guest lecturer: Ye Zhang, Upscaling & Model Complexity in Subsurface Flow
Simulation:Insights Gained & Ongoing Research

Friday, June 11
Morning (8-11:30)
Immersion
Math Collaboratory
Group meetings
Afternoon (1:00-5:00)
Group meetings

Saturday, June 12
Excursion to Vedauwoo or Pole Mountain

Sunday, June 13
Picnic @ Shader’s (2819 Dover Drive) at 6:00 p.m

REU 2010 Starts

The 2010 REU starts Monday, June 7.

Keep an eye on this blog to see what has, is and will take place.