Information on Mathematics opportunities for undergraduates

Internal scholarships, awards & honors

External scholarship info -- General discussion of scholarships and the application process

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REUs)

• Research opportunities for undergraduates in the summer
• Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Iowa State University
• Summer in Budapest. This is an excellent program for the best undergraduates.
• National Science Foundation web page for math REUs. This is a list of many different REUs in mathematics at many different institutions.
• Applied Mathematical Sciences Summer Institute. This is a summer research program for undergraduates.
  
• Wabash Summer Institute in Algebra A summer research program for undergraduates.
  
• Clemson University A summer research program for undergraduates in computational number theory and combinatorics.
  
• Chico State University A summer research program for undergraduates in mathematical modeling, knot theory, and number theory.
  
• Kansas State University A summer research program for undergraduates in mathematical modeling for aviation.
  
• University of Washington A summer research program for undergraduates in inverse problems which arise in partial differential equations and discrete problems related to them
  
• University of Nebraska A summer research program for undergraduates in applied mathematics
  
• North Carolina State University A summer research program in modeling and industrial applied mathematics.
  
• Illinois State University A summer research program in combinatorics, design theory, and graph theory focusing on both research problems and exemplary teaching practices.
  

Information on graduate school

• Considering graduate school in the mathematical sciences?
• Tips on applying to graduate schools
• The ISU graduate program in mathematics

 

Contests and activities

• Iowa Collegiate Mathematics Competition This is an annual competition by student teams in Iowa, typically held in April.
• COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling This is an intense international competition usually held in February. Student teams of three spend a weekend preparing a mathematical model for some situation.
• Student activities at the MAA This page includes Undergraduate Mathematics Conferences as well as more career and job related links.
• ISU Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon This is the local chapter of the national honorary association. It serves also as the ISU Mathematics Club, with regular meetings and pizza parties.

 

Mathematics organizations

• Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
• The Math Forum
• Society of Actuaries
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pi Mu Epsilon

 

Links for fun

• Dan Ashlock's fractal collection
• Math in the movies
• Math fun facts
• Famous mathematical quotes
• Furman University Mathematical Quotations Server
• Women mathematicians
• Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
• Game-show like activities for recreational math events.

For more information, contact:

Steve Butler at butler@iastate.edu

James Wilson at jawilson@iastate.edu