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Starting in Summer 1999 the Mathematics Department of the Pennsylvania State University will host a Research Experience for Undergraduates site. Support for the site is provided by the National Science Foundation VIGRE grant. Eleven participants are selected from qualified applicants for this year. Seven of them are participants of the MASS program.
The program run from June 20 to July 31, 1999 (6 weeks). It will combine learning with research and include:
- Program schedule
- Two two-week mini-courses
- Symmetry and Representations of Finite Groups
Instructor: Adrian Ocneanu, Professor of Mathematics - The Theory of Partitions
Instructor: George Andrews, Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics
- Symmetry and Representations of Finite Groups
- Weekly seminar run by Misha Guysinsky
- Research projects
- A geometric spectral theory for n-tuples of self-adjoint matrices and their generalizations. Advisor: Joel Anderson
- Problems from the Partition Theory. Advisor: George Andrews
- Polygons with only one integer point. Advisor: Alexander Borisov
- The growth rate of the number of generalized diagonals for a polygonal billiard. Advisor: Anatoly Katok and Misha Guysinsky
- Matrices with non-conjugate centralizers. Advisor: Svetlana Katok
- Symmetry and Representations of Finite Groups. Advisor: Adrian Ocneanu
- New Congruences for the Partition Function. Advisor: Ken Ono