Lafayette College's REU Program is an intensive, eight week summer research experience in which undergraduate students investigate unsolved problems in mathematics. Over the past n years, more than 8n students have participated in the program (where the value of n increases every year, usually by 1), working in small groups directed by individual faculty members. Most students who have participated in the Lafayette program have published papers in professional journals and presented talks on their summer research at national mathematics conferences. This picture shows a Cayley graph embedded on a torus (Summer 2001; Elizabeth McMahon's group). In the photo below, Betsy Cassells presents her work on PSL(2,Z[i]) at the national AMS-MAA meeting in San Antonio, 1999.

• Math meetings - January 2009
• Summer 2008
• Summer 2007
• Summer 2006
• Summer 2005
• Summer 2004

For more information about the Lafayette REU, this informative and 100% accurate description.

[2009 Application Deadline Passed| 2009 Project Descriptions | Publications ]

Projects for Summer 2009
GENERAL AREA	TOPIC	MENTOR
Matroid Theory	Symmetry groups	Gary Gordon
Financial Mathematics	Pricing models	Qin Lu
Geometric Group Theory	Asymptotic Geometry of Groups	John Meier

Important Information

• Application deadline. March 2, 2009
• Program dates. June 8 - July 31
• Stipend. $3200
• Eligibility. Participants must be US citizens or permanent residents, and must be enrolled in an undergraduate program.

If you want to see what students have accomplished in previous summers, check out the list of publications arrising from the Lafayette College REU and Excel programs.

The REU is coordinated by the Mathematics Department of Lafayette College, which is located in Easton, Pennsylvania, less than 90 minutes from both New York and Philadelphia. Each participant will receive free housing and a $3200 stipend. Participants are expected to be continuing their undergraduate education in the Fall of 2009, and NSF regulations require that only U.S. Citizens and permanent residents are eligible to receive stipends.

The Summer 2008 REU Group

You can see pictures of REUers at the January 2007 New Orleans joint math meetings here. We also have some pictures from SUMTOPO, a math conference at Denison University we went to during July of 2005, and more pictures from the Atlanta (January 2005) Math meetings. For more pictures from previous math meetings, previous REUs and other departmental activities, click here.

Send inquiries only to mathreu@lafayette.edu. Someone will eventually write back to you. Maybe. If we feel like it.

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