The Math REU
Research Experiences for Undergrads
Program at ETSU
Nuts and Bolts
• The National Science Foundation has funded
the REU program in STEM fields since the ‘80s
• The ETSU program was launched in 1991 at
MTU and migrated here in 2000
• I am the sole advisor
• 8 students are picked after a national search
• They receive a $1500 travel allowance,
housing, and a $4500 stipend
Goals
• To take the students from a relatively
dependent status to as independent a status
as their competence warrants;
• To get them to write papers submitted to
refereed journals;
• To get them to present at National
Conferences;
Data
• It is difficult to capture the strong national
impact of this program in a short summary, so
we will just provide data for one “sample”
year of the program, namely 2012.
Who?
• Kristen Bartosz, Oregon State University, now working as a programmer;
• Michelle Champlin, RET Teacher from Washington County TN;
• Michael Earnest, Harvey Mudd College, now a PhD student at University of
Southern California;
• Sam Gutekunst, Harvey Mudd College, now a PhD student at Cambridge
University and Cornell;
• Sam Hopkins, Reed College, now a PhD student at MIT;
• Samantha Pinella, University of Edinburgh, UK, now a PhD student at
University of Michigan;
• Yevgeniy Rudoy, Johns Hopkins University, now a Department of Defense
researcher;
• Beverly Tomlinson, RET Teacher from Washington County, TN;
• Morgan Weiler, UC-Berkeley, now a PhD student at University of California,
Berkeley;
• Yan Zhuang, Goucher College, now a PhD student at Brandeis University.
Sam G and Mike
At the
fireworks
display?
Sam Gutekunst again
Monkeybars outside Buc Ridge
At the tail end of
the summer.
Sam H is missing
Anant, Mike, Sam G, Sam H, Morgan,
Sam’s sister
In Paris, at
International
Conference
on
Permutation
Patterns.
Everyone
presented
The third Sam
Samantha,
• in Edinburgh
Yevgeniy Rudoy
Now at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren
Division (NSWC-DD)
Yan Zhuang
Papers
• Papers were written as follows (others are under preparation):
• Champlin, Godbole, and Tomlinson, paper on universal cycles published in
Congressus Numerantium;
• Earnest and Gutekunst, paper on Latin squares and permutations
published in Australasian Journal of Combinatorics;
• Earnest, Godbole, and Rudoy, paper on random permutations under
consideration by Journal of Combinatorics;
• Godbole, Gutekunst and Zhuang, paper in number theory accepted by
Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory;
• Hopkins and Weiler, paper on posets and permutations accepted by Order;
• Godbole, Pinella and Zhuang, paper on words and permutations published
by Pure Mathematics and Applications; and
• Rudoy, paper on universal cycles published in Electronic Journal of
Combinatorics.
Presentations
• Champlin and Tomlinson presented at the
Southeastern Combinatorics Conference;
• All eight REU students presented at the Joint
Mathematics Meetings;
• Earnest, Gutekunst, Hopkins and Weiler
presented at the International Permutation
Patterns Meeting in Paris.