MASS - Summer REU 2003

In Summer 2003 the Mathematics Department of the Pennsylvania State University hosted a Research Experiences for Undergraduates site. Support for the site was provided by the National Science Foundation VIGRE grant. Thirteen participants were selected from qualified applicants.

The program ran for 7 weeks from June 23 to August 8, 2003. It combined learning with research and included:

Two two-week mini-courses
- Elliptic Curves and Elliptic Functions
  Instructor: Yuri Zarhin, Professor of Mathematics
- Introduction to Complex Dynamics
  Instructor: Bryna Kra, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Research projects
- Paul Baginski and Elena Fuchs, Explicit formulas for the modular equation
- Jonathan Barry and Timothy Trudell, Isogenic but non-isomorphic elliptic curves over finite fields
- Walter Chen and Mike Willis, Properties of the iterates of the Weierstrass P-function
- Yi Fang Chen, Vivek Srikrishnan, Minimal non-composite rectangle exchange transformation
- Nathan Collins, Jeff Ginn, Sara Salko, Drawing closed geodesics
- David Jordan and Rhiannon Schayer, Rational points in the Cantor middle thirds set, Group structure on Cantor rationals