1. Student/Faculty Research
UW-Eau Claire
Mathematics Department

2. Student/Faculty UNDERGRADUATE Research PAGE
Math Department Undergraduate Research Projects page
UW-Eau Claire
Mathematics Department

3. What is it?
Students work with math faculty members on research projects designed for undergraduates to be able to help
Students work either
during the school year, or
during the summer, or
both.
Their work can be paid or unpaid, though most students and faculty mentors choose paid.
Students present the results of their research at various venues including:
Joint Math Meeting (JMM)
NCUR (National Conferences on Undergraduate Research)
UWEC - Math Retreat
UWEC - CERCA

4. But what is math research?
Research: An attempt by careful enquiry, experimentation, study, observation, analysis, creation, and recording to:
Develop new interpretations of facts, knowledge or information,
Discover new means of applying existing knowledge, or
Discover new facts, knowledge, and information.

5. But what is math research?
SOLVING MATH PROBLEMS NEVER SOLVED BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD ? Ideally. But, not always the case. FINDING NEW WAYS OF SOLVING MATH PROBLEMS ? That would be great!

6. Examples
Let’s check out some undergraduates faculty/students projects conducted in the math department.

7. Examples
Dr. Colleen Duffy: Look at fixed faces under symmetries of various polytopes and then count paths between levels in a Hasse graph to determine the structure of the formed algebra.

8. Examples
Dr. Walker Musical Set Theory and Atonalism

9. Examples
Dr. Walker Spectrograms and Musical Analysis

10. Examples
Dr. Brisbin A random forest analysis of unexplained genetic risk
2+2 S p

11. Examples
Dr. Brisbin Statistical analysis of urban development potential in Eau Claire Age-based analysis of college-to-career paths

12. Examples
Dr. Ahrendt Differential/Difference Equations Time Scale Analysis

13. Examples
Dr. Ahrendt Cellular Automata & Weather

14. Examples
Dr. Ahrendt Machine Learning

15. Examples
Dr. Penkava Moduli Spaces of 4-Dimensional Associative Algebras

16. Examples
Dr. Carolyn Otto Rational Tangles Knot and Links (applied to DNA) Relations to Graph Theory

17. Examples
Dr. Bingen How Student Attitudes Toward Mathematics Affect Achievement

18. Examples
Dr. Aziz Flexible Skew-Symmetric Distributions: Applications to Health Data

19. Examples
Dr. Kraker Cyclic Influences on Student Discipline

20. Examples
Dr. Tong Mathematics in Quilting

21. Examples
Dr. Lewis Classifying Subgroups

22. Examples
Dr. Davis Colored Links More Knot theory!

23. Examples
Dr. Mbirika Combinatorics of Complex Reflection Groups

24. Examples
Dr. Mbirika Visible Points in the Plane

25. Examples
Dr. Koissi Predictive Modeling of Big Data, and Application to S&P 500

26. Examples
Dr. Koissi Analysis of Variation in Price of mortality-linked Securities: Investigating Change in the Swiss Re bond index

27. Examples
Dr. Koissi Understanding and Modeling Longevity Risk

28. Then What? Present your research!
Students present the results of their research at various venues including:
National and International Conferences
Joint Math Meeting (JMM)
NCUR (National Conferences on Undergraduate Research)
UWEC - Math Retreat
UWEC - CERCA

29. Then What?
Present your research!

30. Then What? Write your findings, in submit for publication
In peer-reviewed (or non-peer reviewed) publications.
All of which go on your resumes!

31. A few details ACADEMIC YEAR PROJECTS
Students get paid between $1000 and $1600 per academic year project, depending on the number of students on the team. $1400 is typical over two semesters.

32. A few details ACADEMIC YEAR PROJECTS
Students get paid between $1000 and $1600 per academic year project, depending on the number of students on the team. $1400 is typical over two semesters.
Students work five hours per week during the academic year.

33. A few details ACADEMIC YEAR PROJECTS
Students get paid between $1000 and $1600 per academic year project, depending on the number of students on the team. $1400 is typical over two semesters.
Students work five hours per week during the academic year.

34. A few details SUMMER PROJECTS
Students get paid between $1000 and $2300 per summer project, depending on the number of students on the team. $ is typical over the summer
Students typically work between 20 and 35 hours per week during the summer.

35. When to join The deadline for summer projects is Feb. 15.
The deadline for academic year projects is July 15.
So speak to a faculty member or send an early enough.
Check the Math Department Undergraduate Research Projects page

36. When to join
You can take a course in which the students learned about the process of conducting math research: MATH 380: Research Methods
You will learn how to read math papers, how to use LaTeX, how to present mathematical ideas, and how to find a project.

37. How do I get involved? Which projects interest you?
Which match with your career goals?
Which professors do you think you work well with?
Talk to them about it!

38. Don’t hesitate to ask questions, if any.