09/16/09
Urge to Compute - Research
Posted by Nigel on September 16, 2009 in Career Opportunities, Honors Experiences, Research Information and Opportunities
URGE to Compute provides apprenticeships worth $10,000 to each of 12 students annually to conduct research of a computational nature in mathematics and the mathematical sciences. URGE stands for Undergraduate Research Group Experiences, and it is the implementation in Buffalo of the National Science Foundation’s CSUMS program. It is a collaboration of the UB and Buffalo State Mathematics Departments, the UB Physics Department, the UB Center for Computational Research, and the Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute.
Students accepted to the program conduct a year-long program of closely mentored research and engage in many activities that support their research as well as their intellectual and personal development.
Each year’s research has a theme, and four team research projects unified by that theme are carried out. In 2009, the theme was modeling processes with randomness, and the projects investigated agricultural pest populations, optical fiber communications, the functioning of the human kidney, and strategies in armed conflict. The theme for 2010 is computational combinatorial mathematics.
For more information consult the following flyer: urge_brochure_200908
***This would count towards the Honors Experiences as “Research” credit.***
