Math Research Opportunities for Summer 2025

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Already thinking of all the cool math you’re hoping to do next summer?  Then take a look at this page!

https://sites.google.com/view/mathreu

It contains a listing of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REUs) aimed at mathematics students that will plan to run in the summer of 2025.

Interested in doing research closer to Chicago?  Then you might consider applying to the CSH Undergraduate Summer Research Program (URSP).  Not sure where to start?  Reach out to the math department’s undergraduate research coordinator, Dr. Emily Barnard, at e.barnard@depaul.edu!

EDGE Summer Program

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Applications for the EDGE Summer Program are now open! Apply today.

The EDGE Summer Program is a four-week, residential session designed to prepare a cohort of gender nonconforming individuals to thrive in their PhD programs in the mathematical sciences. The 2025 EDGE Summer Program will be held June 1 – June 28, 2025 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Program activities include:

  • Four core workshops in courses such as algebra, analysis, measure theory, and machine learning.
  • Daily collaborative problem sessions with advanced graduate student mentors.
  • Regular office hours and highly personalized feedback from facilitators.
  • Weekly colloquium on a variety of research topics.
  • Special discussions on equity and identity in mathematics, teaching practices, and other professional development skills.

 

The EDGE Foundation will cover all travel, room, and board expenses related to the Summer Program. Program participants will also receive a modest stipend.

Applicants to the program should be women or gender nonconforming individuals who: 1) are applying to PhD programs in the mathematical sciences or 2) just completed their first year in a PhD program in the mathematical sciences. Students from underrepresented minority groups are especially encouraged to apply.

Applications for the 2025 EDGE Summer Program are now available at https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/1338. Applications are due February 14, 2025. For more information, visit https://www.edgeforwomen.org/summer-session/. Please send any questions to edgestaff@edgeforwomen.org.

 

Printable flyer available here.

MAT gives back

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Shortly before the start of autumn classes, eighteen faculty and staff from Mathematical Sciences joined together and spent the day volunteering with Nourishing Hope, one of the largest and longest-operating hunger relief organizations in Chicago. Volunteers spent the day packing groceries, sorting food, and assisting in other important tasks.

 

 

Photos from the warehouse!

2024 Summer Undergraduate Research

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Several students from the DePaul mathematics community spent their summers engaging in full-time mathematical research. Some students conducted research with DePaul faculty as part of the Undergraduate Summer Research Program, while others conducted research at external institutions.  Regardless of location, students learned to ask and answer their own questions, and even proved things that had never been proven before! So cool!

At the end of the summer, the following students came together and presented their work at the 2024 Mathematical Sciences Summer Research Showcase:

  • Rose Bittle, Modifications to the Spiral Array
  • Clara Campos, Optimal Transportation on Histograms (Research mentor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung)
  • Erik Dahlen, The Imbalance of a vector in a d-dimensional hypercube and the Eulerian numbers (Research mentor: Dr. T. Kyle Petersen)
  • Joosung Lee, Imbalance and Eulerian numbers (Research mentor: Dr. T. Kyle Petersen)
  • Owen Levens, Bijection, Collaboration, and Perseverance in Global Pattern Avoidance (Research mentor: Dr. Bridget Tenner)
  • Blair Johnson, Odd-Even Transposition Sort (Research mentor: Dr. T. Kyle Petersen)
  • Nicholas Oses Frola, Finding Frobenius Symmetry for Four Element Sets (Research mentor: Dr. David Sher)
  • Olivia Medina, 2D Conical Radon Transform used in Medical Imaging (Research mentor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung)

Abstracts for the student talks can be found here: 2024 Summer Research Showcase Abstracts

Interested in learning more about these students’ experiences? Keep an eye out for upcoming DePaul Math Club talks! 

Are you interested in conducting mathematical research? (Great!) You can start by talking to the faculty members you know or by reaching out to the MAT department’s undergraduate research coordinator, Dr. Emily Barnard (e.barnard@depaul.edu).

Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (NCUWM)

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The Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (NCUWM) will be accepting applications for participants between October 1 and October 18. This conference is open to all undergraduates and provides most of the local funding as well as some travel support. Students may present research talks or posters, or they can attend without presenting. The conference is helpful for all students, whether they know they want to go to graduate school in math or whether they like math and are unsure what to do with it. Please consider applying!

 

The conference will take place January 31 – February 2, 2025.  More information can be found here: NCUWM

CSH Fest 2024 – Save the Date!

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The College of Science and Health’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, with support from the Dean’s Office, invites you to our 2nd annual CSH FEST to be held on Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 2:30-6:00 pm on the Lincoln Park Campus Quad.

We are pleased to bring this event to our college and the DePaul community after such an incredible inaugural CSH Fest last year. This event is an opportunity to kick off the academic year and to meet, greet, and engage with our new and returning CSH graduate and undergraduate students.

In keeping with the strategic goals for the College, the purpose of CSH Fest is to create a sense of community and belonging while celebrating the richness and diversity of our students, faculty, and staff in science and health fields. CSH Fest is free, and there will be snacks, games, prizes, cotton candy, snow cones, and an informational fair with CSH units and student organizations as well as other partners within and outside of DePaul. DIBS will also be making an appearance!

Please save the date and spread the word to your friends. More information with an RSVP is coming soon!

MAT Community Tea & Coffee Hour Dates for Autumn 2024

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Throughout the year, the MAT Department hosts a number of informal events meant to help build and sustain our mathematical sciences community here at DePaul. These events provide an opportunity to meet with fellow MAT students, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as MAT faculty members in a relaxed setting.

We will have four teas during the autumn quarter:

  • Friday, 9/20 at 1:30-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 10/4 at 1:30-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 10/18 at 1:30-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 11/1 11/8 at 1:30-2:45 pm

These community hours will take place in the MAT Department office suite (on the 5th floor of SAC). Light refreshments, such as coffee, tea, and cookies, will be served. We hope that you can join us.

DePaul Math Club

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The DePaul Math Club meets Fridays at 12:00 in Arts and Letters 408. It’s a great time filled with pizza, beverages, great people, a relaxed environment, and some fascinating mathematics—math that’s both niche and underdiscussed and the hottest topics leading the math world today. We are usually joined by student researchers, graduate students, or professors—some from DePaul and some from other institutions—to share the math they work with. No math background required. We hope that you will join us for one of our upcoming meetings.

If you are interested in getting more involved with this exciting and vibrant group this year, please complete this short form to join the mailing list:

You can also reach out to the DMC leadership team directly by emailing dpumathclub@gmail.com.

MAT End of Year Celebration

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Thank you for spending another year with us and for being a part of the MAT community at DePaul. We will be celebrating the end of the academic year with a party and we hope that you will join us!

Pizza and snacks will be provided. This will be a great opportunity to chat with your fellow MAT students, enjoy some lunch, and get your official MAT t-shirt, tote bag, and other MAT swag.

We hope that you can join us!

When: Friday, June 7, 12:00 – 2:00pm
Where: MAT office suite on the 5th floor of SAC
Who: You!

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