Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
REU CV
This is where we keep information on what OSU REU students have accomplished with their REU research after the program is completed, such as giving talks and publishing research papers. If you have updated information for this page, please email us at math_reu@science.oregonstate.edu.
Quick Statistics
Total number of participants as of 2019: 303Percentage of female participants from 2009-2019: > 49%
Percentage of URM participants from 2009-2019: > 12%
Percentage of participants from 2005 - 2013 earning Masters or PhD in the mathematical sciences, or currently in such a graduate program: > 56%
Percentage of female participants from 1987-2004: > 43%
Percentage of participants from 1987 - 2004 earning Masters or PhD in mathematics, or related field: > 43%
Research Papers arising from REU Research co-authored by REU students
(2010 - present)
Preprints/In Preparation
Hoewoon Kim, Miles Smith, Clare Spinner, and Hannah Stein, An explicit and analytical solution to the Stokes equations on the half space with initial and boundary conditions using integral transforms, in preparation.
Yevgeniy Kovchegov, Alex Negrón, Clarice Pertel, and Christopher Wang, The theory of true positive skewness, in preparation.
Lexi Arlen, Tanner Fromcke, and Patrik Nabelek, The Dressing Method for the Kaup–Broer System with Strong Capillarity, in preparation.
Tyler Beauregard, Janabel Xia, and Mike Rosulek, Finding One Common Item, Privately, submitted, eprint".
Karina Cho and Jacob Naranjo, Generalizations of Triangle Inequalities to Spherical and Hyperbolic Geometry, arXiv:1805.11442.
Appeared/Accepted
Blessing O. Emerenini, Ricardo N. G. Reyes Grimaldo, Ekeoma Ijioma, Cassandra Williams, Krista Wurscher, Deterministic and Stochastic framework of within-host influenza infection dynamics, Letters in Biomathematics 8(1), (2021), 229-253.
Adriana Duncan, Simran Khunger, Holly Swisher, and Ryan Tamura, Generalizations of Alder’s Conjecture via a Conjecture of Kang and Park, Research in Number Theory, 7, 11 (2021), 1-26.
Dallas Foster, Collin Victor, Brian Frost, and Juan M. Restrepo, Gradient Sensing via Cell Communication, Physical Review E 103, no. 2 (2021), 022405.
Savana Ammons, Young Jin Kim, Laura Seaberg, and Holly Swisher, An analogue of k-marked Durfee symbols for strongly unimodal sequences, Integers 21, A35 (2021), 1-14.
Michael Allen, Nicholas Anderson, Asimina Hamakiotes, Ben Oltsik, and Holly Swisher, Eta-quotients of prime or semiprime level and elliptic curves, Involve, Vol. 13, No. 5 (2020), 879–900.
Allison Arnold-Roksandich, Brian Diaz, Erin Ellefsen, and Holly Swisher, Extending a catalog of quantum modular forms to an infinite class, Research in Number Theory, 6, 17 (2020) 1-20.
Kenneth Allen, David DeMark, and Clayton Petsche, Non-Archimedean Hénon maps, attractors, and horseshoes, Research in Number Theory, Vol. 4 Issue 1 (2018).
Oleg Lazarev, Matthew Mizuhara, Benjamin Reid, and Holly Swisher, An extension of a proof of the Ramanujan congruences, The Ramanujan Journal, 45, issue 1, (2018), 1-20.
Glencora Borradaile, Hung Le, Melissa Sherman-Bennett, Large induced acyclic and outerplanar subgraphs of 2-outerplanar graphs, Graphs and Combinatorics, 33 (2017), no. 6, 1621–1634.
Jenia Rousseva and Yevgeniy Kovchegov, On Alternating Quantum Walks, Physica A, Vol. 470 (2017), 309-320
Ethan Alwaise, Elena Iannuzzi, and Holly Swisher, A proof of some conjectures of Mao on partition rank inequalities, The Ramanujan Journal, 43, issue 3, (2017), 633-648.
Glencora Borradaile, Jennifer Iglesias, Theresa Migler, Antonio Ochoa, Gordon Wilfong, and Lisa Zhang Egalitarian graph orientations, Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, Vol. 21, no. 4, (2017).
Catherine Babecki, Chris Jennings-Shaffer, and Geoffrey Sangston, Higher Order Smallest Parts Functions and Rank-Crank Moment Inequalities from Bailey Pairs, Research in Number Theory, Vol. 2(1), (2016), 1-35.
Robert Costa, Patrick Dynes, and Clayton Petsche, A p-adic Perron-Frobenius Theorem, Acta Arithmetica Vol. 174 (2016), 175-188.
Matthew Mizuhara, James Sellers, and Holly Swisher, A periodic approach to plane partition congruences, Integers 16, A16 (2016), 1-13.
Acadia Larsen, Alexa Rust, and Holly Swisher Inequalities for positive rank and crank moments of overpartitions, Int. J. Number Theory 10 (2014), no. 8, 2115-2133.
Paul Cull, Leanne Merrill, Tony Van, Celeste Burkhardt, and Tommy Pitts, Solving Towers of Hanoi and Related Puzzles, Computer Aided Systems Theory-EUROCAST (2013). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2013). 12-19.
Paul Cull, Leanne Merrill, and Tony Van A Tale of Two Puzzles: Towers of Hanoi and Spin-Out, Journal of Information Processing 21 (2013), no.3, 15 pp.
Oleg Lazarev and Holly Swisher, A combinatorial proof of a recursive formula for multipartitions, Integers 11 (2011), A52, 13 pp.
Paul Cull, Adam Murakami, and Stephanie Young, Fast Fibonacci! Congr. Numer. 200 (2010), pg. 77–94.
Presentations by REU students related to their REU Research
(2011 - present)
Adriana Duncan, Simran Khunger, Generalizations of Alder's conjecture via a conjecture
of Kang and Park, Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Math, virtual via
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, January 22-24, 2021, talk.
Simran Khunger, Generalizations of Alder's conjecture via a conjecture of Kang and Park, Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Conference (SUMS), virtual via James Madison University, December 5, 2020, talk.
Ryan Tamura, Generalizations of Rogers-Ramanujan identities and Alder's Conjecture, Berkeley Undergraduate Number Theory Conference, November 15, 2020, talk.
Ryan Tamura, Generalizations of Alder's conjecture via a conjecture of Kang and Park, Math Graduate Programs Expo, virtual via Texas State Univeresity, November 6, 2020, talk.
Simran Khunger, Ryan Tamura, Generalizations of Alder's conjecture via a conjecture of Kang and Park, Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium, virtual via Rice University, October 31, 2020, talk.
Adriana Duncan, Simran Khunger, Generalizations of Alder's conjecture via a conjecture of Kang and Park, Women in Mathematics in New England (WIMIN), virtual via Smith College, October 17, 2020, talk.
Adriana Duncan, Simran Khunger, Ryan Tamura, On Generalized Conjectures about Partitions with Congruence Relations and Difference Conditions, Young Mathematicians Conference, the Ohio State University, August 14, 2020, talk.
Laura Seaberg An analogue of k-marked Durfee symbols for strongly unimodal sequences, Delta-Epsilon Lecture Series, DeSales University, Nov. 9, 2019, talk.
Laura Seaberg How I learned to stop worrying and love generating functions, Delta-Epsilon Lecture Series, DeSales University, Nov. 8, 2019, talk.
Ben Oltsik, Eta-Quotients of Prime or Semi-Prime Levels, Spring 2019 MAA Seaway Sectional Meeting, St. John Fisher College, April 5-6, 2019, talk.
Ben Oltsik, Eta-Quotients of Prime or Semi-Prime Levels, Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Smith College, March 23, 2019, talk.
Asimina Hamakiotes, Eta-quotients of Prime or Semiprime Level and Elliptic Curves, Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (NCUWM), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, January 25-27, 2019, talk.
Asimina Hamakiotes, Eta-quotients of Prime or Semiprime Level and Elliptic Curves, AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Undergraduate Student Poster Session, Baltimore, MD, January 16-19, 2019, poster presentation.
Asimina Hamakiotes, Eta-quotients of Prime/Semiprime Level and Elliptic Curves, Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Conference (SUMS), James Madison University, October 13, 2018, talk.
Asimina Hamakiotes, Eta-quotients of Prime or Semiprime Level and Elliptic Curves, Women in Mathematics in New England (WIMIN), Smith College, September 22, 2018, talk.
Jacob Naranjo, Generalizations of Triangle Relations to Spherical and Hyperbolic Geometry, AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Undergraduate Student Poster Session, San Deigo, CA, January 12, 2018, poster presentation.
Andrew Fisher, Parameter Distributions in the Lorentz Model for Dispersion, NUMS (Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium), Western Washington University, October 14, 2017, talk.
Kenneth Allen, p-adic Henon Maps, Attractors, and Horseshoes, Applied Math Seminar, UMass Lowell, December 1, 2016, talk.
Melissa Sherman-Bennett, Large Induced Outerplanar and Acyclic Subgraphs of Planar Graphs, AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Undergraduate Student Poster Session, Seattle, WA, January 8, 2016, poster presentation. (Outstanding Poster Award!)
Megan Golbek, Secure Multiparty Computation, AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Undergraduate Student Poster Session, Seattle, WA, January 8, 2016, poster presentation.
Patrick Dynes, A p-adic Perron-Frobenius Theorem, Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar, Clemson University, Nov. 17, 2015, talk.
Melissa Sherman-Bennett, Large Induced Outerplanar and Acyclic Subgraphs of Planar Graphs, Council on Undergraduate Research’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates Symposium, Arlington, VA, October 26, 2015, poster presentation. (Outstanding Poster Award!)
Elena Ianuzzi, Rank Difference Inequalities of Partitions, Women In Mathematics In New England (WIMIN 15), Smith College, Sept. 19, 2015, talk.
Melissa Sherman-Bennett, Breaking Cycles in Planar Graphs, Women In Mathematics In New England (WIMIN 15), Smith College, Sept. 19, 2015, talk.
Allison Arnold-Roksandich, Modularity of rank difference functions for multipartitions, Southeastern Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics, Clemson University, October 26-27, 2013, talk.
Anthony Lazzaro, Modularity of rank difference functions for multipartitions, 27th Automorphic Forms Workshop, University College Dublin, March 11-14, 2013, talk.
Kevin Schwenkler, Inhomogeneous Quantum Walks, AMS/MAA Joing Mathematics Meetings, AMS Session on Walks on Graphs and Networks, San Diego, CA, January 12, 2012, talk.
Angelica Deibel, Time-Inhomogeneous Quantum Walks, AMS/MAA Joing Mathematics Meetings, AMS Session on Walks on Graphs and Networks, San Diego, CA, January 12, 2012 talk.
Zoe Jansen and Anthony Lazzaro, Modularity of rank difference functions for multipartitions, AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Undergraduate Student Poster Session, San Diego, CA, January 11, 2012, poster presentation.
Emily Carlson and Tselil Schramm, Sequences for Touring Graphs, AMS/MAA Joing Mathematics Meetings, Undergraduate Student Poster Session, Boston, MA, January 6, 2012, poster presentation.
Emily Carlson, Paths on Paths on Paths, Mid-Hudson Mathematics Conference for Undergraduates, Bard College, October 16, 2011, talk.