Previous REUs
REU 2009
Students: Toan Duc Dinh, Michael Donzella, Thomas Dinitz, Matthew Hartman, Lizbee Collins-Wildman, Matthew Hoffman, Benjamin Mackey, Catherine Pizzano
Advisors: Mikhail Chebotar, Jenya Soprunova, Andrew Tonge, Laura Smithies
REU Publications
- Nicolas F. Beike, Rachel Carleton, David G. Costanzo, Colin Heath, Mark L. Lewis, Kaiwen Lu, and Jamie D. Pearce, , São Paulo J. Math. Sci. 18 (2024), no. 2, 1651–1669.
- David G. Costanzo, Mark L. Lewis, Stefano Schmidt, Eyob Tsegaye and Gabe Udell, , Czechoslovak Math. J.
Application
Application Deadline: Friday February 13, 2026
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Isabella “Bella” Rudy, a junior fashion design major with a minor in marketing, transformed nature into wearable art through an ambitious biomimicry project at the Design Innovation Hub.For her Junior Studio final project, Rudy designed an avant garde garment inspired by the King Bird of Paradise. Using custom textile design, dye sublimation printing, and advanced garment construction, Rudy’s work explored how fashion can capture movement, transformation, and storytelling without relying on real biological materials.The project began with a single requirement: choose a bird and reinterpret it ...
2026 Projects
For Summer 2026 we will recruit nine students to work on the three projects described below.
Graphs and groups (Mark Lewis)
There are several graphs naturally associated with groups. In this project, we will focus on the commuting graph and the closely related centralizer graph of a group G.
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