Undergraduate Research with AMS Faculty

 
Scores of undergraduates have recently been involved in research projects with a dozen Applied Math & Statistics faculty.  Students have made presentations at national and international research conferences and have in some cases won awards at those conferences. They have their names of published papers and have earned research internships at scientific laboratories in this country and internationally.  Some AMS faculty have obtained research grants with funds specifically designated for supporting undergraduates during summers.  In many cases, students continue on with graduate studies based on their research. 

The most frequent areas of student research are statistics and high-performance computing, but biomathematics and computational geometry have also involved. Recent student projects have included statistical analysis of genetic indicators for ovarian cancer, supercomputing architecture and exascale computing, simulating air turbulence around a parachute, electrical signals to the heart, image processing in x-ray microscopy, and single-molecule conductance.

One student working with Professor Deng was recently one of 10 American undergraduates nation-wide invited to spend the summer working at the CERN supercollider center in Switzerland.

Some technical knowledge is required to do undergraduate research in applied mathematics and statistics.  The most natural way to get involved in research is by taking a course in a subject that interests you and towards the end of the course asking the course professor if there is an opportunity to join his/her research group.