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REU

REU 2014

  • Lie Groups and Lie Algebras 
    Instructor: Viorel Nitica, Professor of Mathematics

REU 2013

  • Functional Analysis and Representation Theory 
    Instructor: Viorel Nitica, Professor of Mathematics

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