2009 Projects

For summer 2009 the REU will offer the following projects:

• (CP) Circle Packings of the Sphere, mentored by Professor Ken Stephenson.
• (TI) Topics in Isospectrality, mentored by Professors Jochen Denzler and Morwen Thistlethwaite.
• (HC) Homotopy Critical Values of Geodesic Spaces, mentored by Professors Conrad Plaut and Jim Conant.

Each of these projects is designed to be accessible to students with relatively little mathematics background. However, the projects involve subjects that undergraduates are very unlikely to encounter in their classes and even those with more significant backgrounds will be challenged. Participants are generally expected to have had at least one mathematics course involving rigorous proofs. Click on the above links for more details.

Contact Information

Conrad Plaut
Professor, Director of UT Math Honors Program
University of Tennessee
Knoxville TN 37996-1300

Phone: 865-974-4319
Email: cplaut@math.utk.edu