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Alberto Bressan

Alberto Bressan
Optimal control or game theory, with applications to economics or finance MATH 220, 230, 250 Booked up for 2012-2013
George Andrews

George Andrews
Number theory, partitions Read "Integer Partitions"
by George Andrews and Kimmo Eriksson
Sharon (Chuba) Garthwaite
Winner:  Undergraduate Student Poster Session on Partitions, AMS-MAA, San Diego (2002)

Beth Morgan (2003)

Frannie Worek (2006)
Andrew Belmonte

Andrew Belmonte
Experimental fluid dynamics, viscoelastic materials, and applied mathematics List Here
Eli Byrne

Operations research, game theory, optimization, multivariate factor analysis
Qiang Du

Qiang Du
Computational and applied mathematics, scientific computation
Hillary Einziger

Hillary Einziger
Discrete math, combinatorics, and graph theory
Edward Green

Edward Green
I am particularly interested in helping students to apply ideas, results, and proof techniques from various fields of maths to problems in game theory and decision theory. Booked for Fall, 2012.
Daniel Kannell (dual math/econ major); Justin Max
Chris Griffin

Chris Griffin
Game theory, combinatorial optimization, machine learning, mathematical social sciences MATH 230/231
MATH 250/251
MATH 311W (preferred)
Booked up for 2012-2013;
Ryan Tatko & CG
CG & Douglas Mercer, James Fan, Anna Squicciarnin
Diane Henderson

Diane Henderson
Experimental fluid mechanics, nonlinear water waves MATH 220/250/251 List Here
Mark Levi

Mark Levi

MATH 140/141/230
Matlab programming
Jenny Li

Jenny Li
Mathematical economics, mathematical finance, computational economics Unavailable 2012-2013
Luen-Chau Li

Luen-Chau Li

Must like matrices/differential equations and be able to program in Matlab Computational Spectral Theory:
Xikai Zhao
Xiantao Li

Xiantao Li

MATH 251 or one of MATH 451 or MATH 455
Programming in Matlab or C
Molecular Modeling and Simulations:
Ryan Kane, Ke Yang,
Hongyuan Zhan, and Xikai Zhao
Chun Liu

Chun Liu
Partial differential equations, calculus of variations,
applications in complex fluids
MATH 250 or 251 NEEDED: REU students in bio math for summer 2013
Anna Mazzucato

Anna Mazzucato
Partial differential equations, fluid mechanics, elasticity,
harmonic and microlocal analysis, inverse problems, financial math
List here
Booked up for 2012-2013
Gary Mullen

Gary Mullen
Finite fields MATH 311W
Some programming
Victor Nistor

Victor Nistor

MATH 140 and MATH 141 Some programming skills Booked up, 2012-2013
Mihran Papikian

Mihran Papikian

Booked up for 2012-2013
Qinhang Sun (reading course);
Benjamin Taylor
Jan Reimann

Jan Reimann
Mathematical logic, algorithmic information theory,
fractal geometry and geometric measure theory
Good knowledge of C/C++ or Matlab/Octave. Some back- ground in analysis (ideally measure theory) will be helpful to understand the theoretical foundations. Recruiting now: Fractal dimension of spatial data via algorithmic information theory.
Posted: 22 Oct 12
Tim Reluga

Tim Reluga
Mathematical biology including evolution, ecology,
immunology, epidemiology, and economics
Booked up for 2012-2013;
Ryan Bradley, 2009

NEEDED: REU students in bio math for summer 2013
Karl Schwede

Karl Schwede
Algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, homological algebra MATH 435 or equivalent
Some programming
James Sellers

James Sellers
Number theory, partitions, enumerative combinatorics MATH 310
Some programming
Kevin Courtright, 2004 Rodseth, O., Sellers, J. A., and Courtright, K. M., Arithmetic Properties of Non-Squashing Partitions into Distinct Parts, Annals of Combinatorics 8, no. 3 (2004), 347-353

Courtright, K. M. and Sellers, J. A., Arithmetic Properties for Hyper m–ary Partitions, INTEGERS 4 (2004), Article A6

Sergei Tabachnikov

Sergei Tabachnikov
Differential topology, dynamical systems,
symplectic geometry and differential geometry
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