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.

Casey & Michelle present poster

Casey McKnight and Michelle Zagardo presented a poster on
"Spectral Theory of Mele Graphs" at the Young Mathematicians Conference
at Ohio State. The poster represented the work that they did
along with Peter Muller under the supervision of UW Math faculty
Jeff Selden.

Jeff also attended the conference.

See the photos to the right.