ISU Math REU - Past participants

ISU Math REU

2025

Participants

Christopher Brice (Columbia University)
Nate Bryerton (University of Virginia)
Leila Anicia Corrales (Cal Poly Pomona)
Samuel Feenane-Levine (Brown University)
Maxwell Goskie (Belmont University)
Mitchell Johnson (Hamilton College)
Kaylee Kim (University of California, Irvine)
Maya Mubayi (Northwestern University)
Ethan Petersen (Brigham Young University)
Jason Rackas (Muhlenberg College)
Jennifer Rotter (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Deniz Tanaci (Pomona College)

Research groups (mentors)

Spectral graph theory (Steve Butler, Matt Burnham)
Parking functions (Steve Butler, Kimberly Hadaway)
Game theoretic modeling (Zhijun Wu, Hope Pungello)

2024

Participants

Levi Axelrod (Binghamton University)
Nathan Bickel (University of South Carolina)
Vera Choi (Tufts University)
Ori Friesen (Macalester College)
Luke Hawranick (West Virginia University)
Cecily Kolko (Smith College)
Nina McCambridge (Carnegie Mellon University)
Asia Morgenstern (Westminster College)
Samuel Orellana Mateo (Duke University)
Cole Swain (University of Montevallo)
Sarah Zaske (Grand Valley State University)
Amy Zeigler (Augustana College)

Research groups (mentors)

Recreational mathematics (Steve Butler, Joel Jeffries)
Two graphs, one spectrum (Kate Lorenzen, Nick Layman)
Counting independent sets in grid-like graphs (Anna Halfpap, Alex Parker)

2023

Participants

Phillip Diamond (Kenyon College)
Hannah Graff (Creighton University)
Bailey Hall (Westmont College)
Jackson Hebner (University of Connecticut)
Rachel Hill (University of North Alabama)
Jiah Jin (Cooper Union)
Taylor Luck (Xavier University)
Sajid Bin Mahamud (Reed College)
Noah Owen (University of Kentucky)
Denis Selyuzhitsky (Michigan State University)
Samantha Trombone (Hamilton College)
Kevin Wong (UCLA)
John Wright (Ohio State University)
Mengyuan Yang (Swarthmore College)
Angela Yuan (UT Austin)

Research groups (mentors)

Quantum information theory (Peter Burton, Martha Dimgba)
Mixing times of Markov chains (David Herzog, Thomas Griffin)
Spectral graph theory (Steve Butler, Nick Layman)

2022

Participants

Connor Albright (Sonoma State University)
Christopher R Boyette (Elon University)
Elena D'Avanzo (Carleton College)
Jenna Elwing (University of Michigan)
Nathan Jeffrey Essner (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Kathryn Griggs (DePaul University)
Rachel A Heikkinen (Augustana College)
Ari D Holcombe Pomerance (Macalester College)
Alyssa Kruczek (Susquehanna University)
Harper J Niergarth (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Abigail Nix (Middlebury College)
Jeremy N. Sorkin (The Ohio State University)
Sarah D Tannert-Lerner (Macalester College)
Chiara Angels Travesset (Purdue University)
Zili Wang (UC Berkeley)

Research groups (mentors)

Temporal logic (Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Laura Gamboa Guzman)
Networks of Interacting particle systems (Ruoyu Wu, Jina Kim)
Modifying Kemeny's constant (Kate Lorenzen, Kimberly Hadaway)
Hearing the shape of a tree (Steve Butler, Joel Jeffries)

2019

Participants

Riley Borgard (Purdue University)
Allison Byars (North Dakota State University)
Elizabeth Cooper (Oberlin College)
Haley Duba (Wheaton College)
Aaron Li (Carleton College)
Chloe Makdad (Butler University)
Sarah McCarty (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Eappen Nelluvelil (Rice University)
Megan Oeltjenburns (Wayne State College)
Zoe Schopick (Macalester College)
Jacob Spainhour (Florida State University)
Keith Sullivan (Concorida College - Moorhead)
Zachary Tuggle (Berry College)

Research groups (faculty mentors)

Fractal reconstruction from distribution sampling (Eric Weber, Evan Camrud, Caleb Camrud, Nate Harding)
Solving systems of equations from distributed data (Eric Weber, Jay Mayfield, Lee Przybylski, Anna Aboud, Nate Harding)
Numerical solution of partial differential equations via the Radon transform (James Rossmanith)
Variations of distance matrices for graphs (Steve Butler, Kate Lorenzen)

2017

Participants

John Ahn (Bowdoin College)
Christine Alar (San Francisco State University)
Camille Felton (University of Wisconsin - Platteville)
Audrey Goodnight (Agnes Scott College)
Mariana Harris (Instituto Tecnologico Aunomo de Mexico)
Haley Knox (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Casandra Monroe (Princeton University)
Stafan Nelson (Minnesota State University Moorhead)
Ian Pelakh (University of Florida)
Michael Wigal (University of West Virginia)

Research groups (mentors)

Inverse eigenvalue problem for small graphs (Steve Butler, Beth Bjorkman, Joshua Carlson)
Adjoint-based adaptive numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws (James Rossmanith, Caleb Logemann)

2015

Participants

Esther Banaian (College of Saint Benedict)
Grant Bowling (University of Michigan)
Brendan Cook (Carleton College)
Jeffrey Davis (University of South Carolina)
Kavi Reddy Duvvoori (Brown University)
Oscar E González (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus)
Jacob Landgraf (Michigan State University)
Alan Medinger (Lewis & Clark College)
Rachel Nevin (Augustana College)
Scarlitte Ponce (California State University Monterrey Bay)
Carolyn Reinhart (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Emma J Talis (Marist College)
Jae-Jae Young (Iowa State University)

Research groups (faculty mentors)

Association Schemes, Codes, Designs, Graphs and their Links (Sung-Yell Song)
Minimum Rank, Maximum Nullity, and Zero Forcing on a Graph (Leslie Hogben and Minerva Catral)
Mathematical Aspects of Juggling Patterns (Steve Butler, Christopher Cox)
Modeling and Computation with Lattice Boltzmann Systems (James Rossmanith)

2013

Participants

Dallas Albritton (Emory University)
Cora Brown (Carleton College)
Jeremy Burke (Vassar)
Josh Carlson (Iowa State University)
Chris Cox (Iowa State University)
Nathanael Cox (Saint Olaf College)
Jason Hu (University of California, Berkeley)
Katrina Jacobs (Pomona College)
Jonathan Lai (University of Texas at Austin)
Kathryn Manternach (Central College)
Greg Michel (Carleton College)
Chris Sheafe (Iowa State University)
Trevor Steil (Michigan State University)
Hannah Turner (Ball State University)
Caroline VanBlargan (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
Xiaosheng Zhang (Iowa State University)

Research groups (faculty mentors)

Existence and Nonexistence of (Directed) Strongly Regular Graphs (Sung-Yell Song)
Minimum rank, maximum nullity, and zero forcing on a graph (Leslie Hogben, Michael Young, Adam Berliner, and Travis Peters)
Automated Recursive Projected CS (ReProCS) for Real-time Video Layering and Performance Guarantees (Leslie Hogben and Namrata Vaswani)
Analysis (Justin Peters)

2011

Participants

Anna Cepek (Bethany Lutheran College)
Justin Cyr (Syracuse University)
Xavier Garcia (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
Angelica Gonzalez (Whittier College)
Chetak Hossain (University of California, Berkeley)
My Huynh (Arizona State University)
Jennifer Kunze (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
Kirill Lazebnik (State University of New York at Geneseo)
Sarah Meyer (Smith College)
Nathan Meyers (Bowdoin College)
Crystal Peoples (Longwood University)
Thomas Rudelius (Cornell University)
Anthony Sanchez (Arizona State University)
George Shakan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Sijing Shao (Iowa State University)
Emily Speranza (Carroll College)
Shanise Walker (University of Georgia)
Charles Watts (Morehouse College)

Research groups (faculty mentors)

Existence and Nonexistence of (Directed) Strongly Regular Graphs (Sung-Yell Song)
Zero forcing/graph propagation (Leslie Hogben and Michael Young)
Dynamical Systems and Markov Chains (Wolfgang Kliemann)
Matrices over C[a, b] (Justin Peters)

2010 (w/Stat)

Participants

Marie Archer (Columbia College)
Millicent Grant (Spelman College)
Rana Haber (Cal Poly Pomona)
Ashley Johnson (Florida A&M)
Xavier Martinez-Rivera (UPR-Mayaguez)
Jared Mills (Morehouse College)
Antonio Ochoa (Cal Poly Pomona)
Timothy Pluta (NC State)
Matthew Temba (Morehouse College)
Travell Williams (Morehouse College)
Brian Wu (Bowdoin College)

Research groups (faculty mentors)

Random walks in a game-theoretic environment (Alexander Roitershtein)
Eventually Nonegative Matrices and Sign Patterns (Minnie Catral and Leslie Hogben)
Zero forcing on hypercubes (Leslie Hogben)
Spatial Sampling Design with Ancillary Information (Zhengyuan Zhu)
Development of Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of RNAseq Data (Peng Liu)
Analysis of Data from the Family Transition Project (Fred Lorenz)
Statistical Analysis of Microarray Data on Gene Expression (Dan Nettleton)
The Effect of Nonconstant Variance on Spatial Prediction (Mark Kaiser)
Estimating Water Quality Through Subsampling (Mark Kaiser and Dan Nordman)

2009 (w/Stat)

Participants

Jonathan Ackerman (Bowdoin College)
Francis Adams (Carleton College)
Kim Ayers (Bowdoin College)
Eduardo Beltran Feliciano (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras)
Joshua Bonet Huertas (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras)
Chrisitina Edholm (Willamette University)
Mario Fields (Morehouse College)
Alexandra Gendreau (Wellesley College)
Carmen Gurrola (University of Texas-Pan American)
Diana Hay (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Vivek Hirpara (Iowa State University)
Kirsten Hogenson (University of North Dakota)
My Huynh (Arizona State University)
Alvin Kerber (Brown University)
Joshua LaGrange (Iowa State University)
Devin Lu (Stanford University)
Peter Lund (University of Pittsburgh)
Kaitlyn Murphy (Montclair State University)
Carlos Ortiz (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras)
Camila Ramirez (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras)
Ashley Schulteis (Wartburg College)
Roberto Toro (University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez)
Mose Wintner (University of California, Berkeley)

Research groups

Markov Chains/Stochastic Difference Equations
Combinatorial Matrix Theory
Algebraic Combinatorics/Symmetric Norms
Statistics

2006

Participants

Thomas Chen (Princeton University)
Nathan Chenette (Harvey Mudd College)
Sean Droms (University of Mary Washington)
Stephen Dupal (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)
Holley Friedlander (University of Vermont)
James Kalafus (Swarthmore College)
Hannah Mahan (Hillsdale College)
Andrew Matteson (Texas A&M University)
Max Parrish (Carleton College)
Jessica Ross (Iowa State University)
Steve Smith (Boston University)
Michael Yoshizawa (Pomona College)
Laura Zuchlewski (SUNY Buffalo)

Research groups (faculty mentors)

Dynamically Coupled Linear ODEs and Markov Chains as a Modeling Tool (Wolfgang Kliemann)
Design and Optimization of Explicit Runge-Kutta Formulas (Roger Alexander)
Minimum Rank of a Tree over an Arbitrary Field (Leslie Hogben)
Survey of Types of Matrix Stability (Leslie Hogben)
Biomolecular Modeling and Simulation (Zhijun Wu)
Modeling Cancer Mathematically (Khalid Boushaba, Howard Levine, and Michael Smiley)

2005

Participants

Rahul Bansal (University of Texas)
Rien Beal (Bethune-Cookman College)
Omar Chilous (Alabama A&M)
Atoshi Chowdhury (Princeton University)
Patrick Corbin (Tulane University)
David Eisenstat (University of Rochester)
Sylvia Fanous (Iowa State University)
Aleka McAdams (DePauw University)
Kelly McConville (St. Olaf College)
Tracy McKay (Bowdoin College)
Jude Melancon (Louisiana State University)
Christina Monford (Florida A&M)
Danielle Newton (Benedict College)
Justin P. Peters (Wartburg College)
Nathan Ray (Southeast Missouri State)
David Watson (Carleton College)

Research groups (faculty mentors)

Steganalysis: An Exploration of Methods (Jennifer Davidson and Clifford Bergman)
Performance Analysis of Numerical Software for Stiff Ordinary Differential Equations (Roger Alexander)
Rational realization of nonzero rational eigenvalues for trees and symmetric tree sign patterns (Leslie Hogben)
Strongly Regular Graphs (Sung-Yell Song)
Mathematical Systems Theory (Wolfgang Kliemann and Justin Peters)
Modeling Cancer Mathematically (Khalid Boushaba and Howard Levine)

2004

Participants

Michael Anderson (Taylor University)
Elizabeth Blankenship (Iowa State University)
John Bowers (Grinnell College)
Denrol Carayol (Jackson State University)
Brian Davis (Western Oregon University)
Laura Dev (Tufts University)
Jacob Harper (University of Denver)
John Hegeman (Stanford University)
Lori Kraus (The College of New Jersey)
Jeff Langford (Drake Unversity)
Sara Lapan (Univeristy of Chicago)
Jessica Poole (Texas Southern University)
Monica Robinson (Jackson State University)
Karyn Snider (University of Richmond)
Misha Teplitskiy (Rice University)
Laura Walters (Culver-Stockton College)

Research groups (faculty mentors)

Polygonal Designs: Existence and Construction (Sung-Yell Song)
Frames, Data Communication, and Security (Eric Weber)
Partial Semigroups and Primality Indicators in the Fractal Generation of Binomial Coefficients to a Prime Square Modulus (Jonathan D. H. Smith)
The Fischer Matrix Completion Problem (Leslie Hogben)
Modeling Cancer Mathematically (Howard Levine)
Dynamical Systems (Wolfgang Kliemann and Justin Peters)
Evolutionary Robotics (Daniel Ashlock)

2003

Participants

Eric Blabac (Iowa State University)
Elizabeth Blankenship (Iowa State University)
Lonnie Colbert (Jackson State University)
Doug Doan (Iowa State University)
Job Evers (MIT)
Jonathan Gandrud (Iowa State University)
Lindsay Hartman (Central College)
Neha Kothari (Iowa State University)
Laura Lutz (University of Chicago)
Erica Naves (Florida A&M University)
Steve Shaner (Iowa State University)
Arian Sibila (Iowa State University)
Tiya Sykes (Florida A&M University)
Anna Veit (Grinnell College)

Research groups (faculty mentors)

Operator Theory (Justin Peters)
Dynamics and statistical modeling of data (Wolfgang Kliemann)
Building Graphs from DNA Data to Reconstruct Evolutionary History (Stephen Willson)
Tumor Angiogenesis (Howard Levine)
Evolutionary robotics (Dan Ashlock)
Nonnegative P-Matrix Completion Problem (Leslie Hogben)
Modular Pascal Triangle (Jonathan Smith)

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