REU2008 Page

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

Fax: 608 263 8891

Dates: June 2 - July 25, 2008.

Reserved Room: B227 Van Vleck

REU Classroom: 903 Van Vleck.

Ken Ono, Manasse Professor of Letters and Science.

Amanda Folsom, Van Vleck Assistant Professor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow.

Rob Rhoades, University of Wisconsin Ph.D. Student
(Beginning in Fall 2008 Postdoc, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne).

Frank Thorne, University of Wisconsin Ph.D. Student.
(Beginning in Fall 2008, NSF Postdoc, Stanford University).

Emily Clader (Columbia University): 2009 Columbia Valedictorian!

Dan Collins (Cornell University)

Yvonne Kemper (UC Berkeley)

Daniel Le (Stanford University): Fulbright Scholar, and NSF Graduate Fellow

Shelly Manber (MIT)

Shrenik Shah (Harvard University): 2008 Mumford Prize (Harvard), and 2008 Hoopes Senior Thesis Prize (Harvard), NSF Graduate Fellowship

Ameya Velingker (Harvard University)

Special Participants

Matt Wage (Appleton High School, 2008 Intel Science Talent Search Finalist)

Sally Wolfe (Memorial High School/UW Madison Special Student)

Maria Monks (MIT, short term visitor from Joe Gallian's REU): 2009 Alice T. Schafer Prize Winner.

E. Clader, Y. Kemper, and M. Wage, Lacunarity of certain partition theoretic generating functions,
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 137 2009, pages 2959-2968.
D. Collins and S. Wolfe, Congruences for Han's generating function,
Involve, 2 (2009), pages 225-236.
D. Le, S. Manber, and S. Shah, On p-adic properties of twisted traces of singular moduli,
International Journal of Number Theory, accepted for publication.
M. Monks, Number theoretic properties of generating functions related to Dyson's rank for partitions into distinct parts,
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, accepted for publication.
A. Velingker, An exact formula for the coefficients of Han's generating function,
Annals of Combinatorics, accepted for publication.

Application Materials. (Deadline: January 31, 2008)

Note: Housing will be single occupancy.

Previous REU's in Number Theory:
2003
2005
2006
2007

For information, please email Ken Ono at ono[at]math.wisc.edu