MASS - Previous REUs

REU 2012

Topics in convexity
Instructor: Viorel Nitica, Professor of Mathematics

REU 2011

Curved manifolds: from soap bubbles to crumpled paper
Instructor: Andrew Belmonte, Associate Professor of Mathematics
From linear algebra to functional analysis: an introduction
Instructor: Nate Brown, Associate Professor of Mathematics

REU 2010

Geometry of Polynomials
Instructor: Sergei Tabachnikov, Professor of Mathematics and MASS Director
Elements of Fractal Geometry and Dynamics
Instructor: Yakov Pesin, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics

REU 2009

Invitation to knot theory
Instructor: Sergei Tabachnikov, Professor of Mathematics
Degree theory and its applications
Instructor: Kris Wysocki, Associate Professor of Mathematics

REU 2008

Algebraic Geometry
Instructor: Yuri Zarhin, Professor of Mathematics
Weekly seminar
Sergei Tabachnikov, Professor of Mathematics

REU 2007

Groups and their connections to geometry
Instructor: Anatole Katok, Raymond N. Shibley Professor of Mathematics
Non-Euclidean geometry, modular surface, and coding of geodesics
Instructor: Svetlana Katok, Professor of Mathematics
Weekly seminar
Misha Guysinsky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University

REU 2006

Regular solids and symmetry in three and four dimensions
Instructor: Adrian Ocneanu, Professor of Mathematics
Latin Squares
Instructor: Gary Mullen, Professor of Mathematics
Weekly seminar
Misha Guysinsky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University

REU 2005

Topics in Algebra
Instructor: Yuri Zarhin, Professor of Mathematics
Weekly seminar
Misha Guysinsky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University

REU 2004

Mathematical Billiards
Instructor: Sergei Tabachnikov, Professor of Mathematics, Director of the MASS Program
Weekly seminar
Misha Guysinsky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University

REU 2003

Elliptic Curves and Elliptic Functions
Instructor: Yuri Zarhin, Professor of Mathematics
Introduction to Complex Dynamics
Instructor: Bryna Kra, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Weekly seminar
Misha Guysinsky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University

REU 2002

Partitions and the Omega Package
Instructor: George Andrews, Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics
Differential Equations as Dynamical Systems
Instructor: Yakov Pesin, Professor of Mathematics
Weekly seminar
Misha Guysinsky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University

REU 2001

Continued Fractions, Hyperbolic Geometry, and Quadratic Forms
Instructor: Svetlana Katok, Professor of Mathematics
Galois Theory
Instructor: Victor Nistor, Professor of Mathematics
Weekly seminar
Misha Guysinsky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University

REU 2000

Dynamical Systems and Applications
Instructor: Mark Levi, Professor of Mathematics
The Prime Numbers and Their Properties
Instructor: Robert Vaughan, Professor of Mathematics
Weekly seminar
Misha Guysinsky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University

REU 1999

Symmetry and Representations of Finite Groups
Instructor: Adrian Ocneanu, Professor of Mathematics
The Theory of Partitions
Instructor: George Andrews, Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics
Weekly Seminar
Instructor: Misha Guysinsky