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Registration for OURFA2M2 2023 is open! Join us to learn about the many and various paths through an undergraduate mathematics career, and to have fun hanging out with other math folks. Feel free to shoot me a message if you have any questions, and please share!

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Summer Math

As usual, great work from OURFA2M2.

REU Programs

Discrete and Continuous Analysis in Appalachia

Program Runs: June 3 - July 26

Application Deadline: March 4th

Undergraduate US citizens who expect to graduate AFTER July 26, 2024, and especially such students attending university in the Appalachian region apply for the DCAA REU. The projects center around probability and data analysis, as well as linear algebra and combinatorics. 

Participants will receive a $4,800 stipend and paid housing for 8 weeks during Summer 2024.

Participants funded by DCAA must be US Citizens or Permanent Residents of the United States. Students who are women, underrepresented minorities, first-generation college students, and those whose home institution have limited research opportunities in mathematics are encouraged to apply.

Applied Mathematics and Computational and Data Science

Hosted at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley 

Program Runs: June 13th - August 12th

Review of applications will begin on March 15, 2024 and offers will be made by April 1, but competitive late applications may be considered until April 15. 

Students will work collaboratively on group research projects in applied mathematics, mathematical modeling, and computational and data science, including applying theoretical models to physical and biological phenomena. In the application the student should choose one of the two possible research topics:

Wave Phenomena and Mathematical Modeling

Mathematical Modeling of Spatial Processes and Deep Spatial Learning

Only US citizens or permanent residents are eligible. 

Women and underrepresented groups in Mathematics are encouraged to apply!

Stipend $5400 plus $900 meal allowance and $1000 travel expenses. Housing will be provided. 

Computational Modeling Serving The Community

Program runs: June 10th - August 16th

Application Deadline: March 31st

Held Virtually in 2024

The focus of this REU is computational modeling to serve and enhance communities. Students will be involved in multi-disciplinary, community-based research projects and trained in computational thinking across different disciplines. In doing so, they will gain an understanding of the potential and limits of these tools and how they can serve diverse communities.

The activities of this virtual REU Site will involve a 2-week training followed by an 8-week research project completed under a faculty mentor’s guidance and with the involvement of a community partner.

Only US citizens or permanent residents are eligible. 

Students from institutions with limited STEM and research opportunities (such as 2-year community colleges) and tribal colleges/universities are specifically encouraged to apply.

Stipend $7000 + $1400 meal allowance and $2200 housing allowance

REU Program in Algebra and Discrete Mathematics at Auburn University

Program Dates: May 28 - July 19

Application Deadline: March 25th

See the program webpage for more info on problems and ares.

Participants will receive a stipend of $4,500 and will live near campus at 191 College with housing paid.

NSF funding is restricted to US citizens and permanent residents. Other self-funded students are welcome to apply.

Polymath Jr.

Program Runs: June 20th - August 14th

Application Deadline: April 1st

Application Here

The Polymath Jr program is an online summer research program for undergraduates. The program consists of research projects from a wide variety of fields. For more information go to the website linked above.

The goal of the original polymath project is to solve problems by forming an online collaboration between many mathematicians. Each project consists of 20-30 undergraduates, a main mentor, and additional mentors (usually graduate students). This group works towards solving a research problem and writing a paper.  Each participant decides what they wish to obtain from the program, and participates accordingly. 

MathILy-EST

Program runs: June 16th - August 10th

Application Deadline: April 2th

In 2024 the MathILy-EST topic will be combinatorial geometry of origami, an area that mixes discrete mathematics, geometry, and analysis, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Hull.

MathILy-EST is an 8-week intensive summer research experience for exceptional first-year college students. MathILy-EST provides early research opportunities each year for nine college students who are deeply but informally prepared for mathematics research. The focus of the program is on first-year students, with second-year and entering college students also considered for participation.

Stipend- $4800, housing and meals included. 

Internships

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Summer Internship

Programs Begin: May and June

Registration Deadline: March 29th

Summer Internship ProgramThe JPL Summer Internship Program offers 10-week, full-time, summer internship opportunities at JPL to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. As part of their internships, students are partnered with JPL scientists or engineers, who serve as the students' mentors. Students complete designated projects outlined by their mentors, gaining educational experience in their fields of study while also contributing to NASA and JPL missions and science.

Conferences

Women in Data Science Livermore 

“WiDS Livermore is an independent event organized by LLNL ambassadors to coincide with the annual global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference held at Stanford University and an estimated 200+ locations worldwide. All genders are invited to attend WiDS regional events, which features outstanding women doing outstanding work…This one-day technical conference provides an opportunity to hear about the latest data science related research and applications in a number of domains, and connect with others in the field. The program features thought leaders covering a wide range of domains from data ethics and privacy, healthcare, data visualization, and more.”

Hybrid, free event: In-person at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, or Virtual

Registration Deadline: March 1, 2023

Date: March 13

The International Mathematics and Statistics Student Research Symposium (IMSSRS)

Date: April 13, 2023.

Location: Virtual

“IMSSRS is a free conference for all mathematics and statistics students (high school, community college, undergraduate, graduate) to share their research with the rest of the world, to learn about current research topics and to hang out with like-minded math and stat enthusiasts. Presenters must be students, but everyone is welcome as an attendee. Please feel free to share this opportunity with other students who might be interested.”

Abstract submission and registration deadlines: March 22, 2023.

To learn more, please visit the the IMSSRS website. 

OURFA2M2

Online Undergraduate Resource Fair for the 

Advancement and Alliance of Marginalized Mathematicians

Ashka Dalal, Gavi Dhariwal, Bowen Li, Zoe Markman, tahda queer, Jenna Race, Luke Seaton, Salina Tecle, Lee Trent ourfa2m2@gmail.com ourfa2m2.org

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i went to ur conference and while i wish that was something i'd had in high school it was still very informative for college me :P so at the very least you have done things that help people teehee <3

I'm glad you found it useful! We try to target it to first and second year undergrads, but definitely people before and after college can find use from it as well :)

For people who may not know what the asker is asking about, I will now shamelessly brag once again about OURFA2M2, ourfa2m2.org, an online conference for undergrads at US schools in math or similar fields, especially those from marginalized groups. We talk about the kinds of jobs you can get as an undergrad and how to get into research and how to learn more about different fields as you're figuring out what you want to do, and other general career building stuff. It's very fun and y'all should come! It is usually in November/December and we recently got approved for another NSF grant to run this year's iteration and I'm very excited about that!

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OURFA2M2 is having a workshop about applying to undergrad research programs and all are welcome!

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Putting my cat to work advertising a conference

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Registration is OPEN for OURFA2M2 2021! This year, we're planning TWO days full of resources, stories, community building, and math, to help marginalized undergraduate mathematicians build their careers. Register and find more info at https://bit.ly/3lUmdkk.

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If you participated in OURFA2M2 in the fall (and even if you didn't) this may be of interest to you!

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Hey math friends!

If you are interested in a career in academia and feel like the tools needed to build that career are not as accessible to you as they are to others, some friends and I have been working on something for YOU! We'll be sharing resources, stories, and, of course, math, all to help you build the career you want.

If you'll be joining us, the information for registration is on our website. Regardless of whether you'll be joining us, please feel free to share this flyer with anyone you think would be interested. We're super excited to make this event the kind of thing we wish we'd had access too earlier in our careers.

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The organizers of the OURFA2M2 conference have written a blog post for the AMS with advice for applying to math REU's! It's the culmination of advice we've gotten, experiences we've had, and things we learned during the conference. If you think it might be for you, it's for you! And thanks to my coorganizer Brittany for the following meme, which is the current mood:

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Not to like, turn scheduling talks for our conference into an exam scheduling graph theory problem or anything but...

Here's the post about the conference if you're interested...

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Student registration for our conference so far is looking rather like a logistic curve, as it probably should. Hard to know though if the registration rate is slowing because we're reaching the majority of the population we're trying to reach or just because of the holiday.

Please feel free to mess up that graph by registering to join us! The audience we're trying to serve is undergrad math majors but professional mathematicians are invited to join our networking session to help make it as productive as possible.

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are there restrictions on who can do the OURFA^2M^2 event? ie I know it's aimed at undergrads but could a high school senior maybe participate? it seems like a cool opportunity, sorry if that's not something you know!

Answer is... Probably? If you're a minor, please make sure your guardian fills out the registration form with you. We're still waiting to hear from some folks about making sure minors can be included. DM me if you want me to keep you updated. If you're already 18, no problem.

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you ran a conference???

ourfa2m2.org

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had a great time at day 1 of ourfa2m2, looking forward to tomorrow!

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I'm so glad! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Registration for OURFA2M2 2022 is open for 10 more days! Join us to learn about the many and various paths through an undergraduate mathematics career, and to have fun hanging out with other math folks :)

This conference is 100% online and free.

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out of curiousity, is ourfa2m2 a deliberate backronym of "our fam" or is that coincidental?

Not fully deliberate like we chose "our fam" and forced the words to fit but like, partially deliberate? Like we tweaked the words so it would have SOME kind of meaning as an acronym. But the acronym wasn't the primary goal? If that makes sense?