Recent REU Students and Projects
- Troy Finlayson (Physics Major) 2001-2004 Thermal conductivity of sea ice
- Amy Heaton (Chemistry Major) 2002-2005 Fluid permeability of sea ice
- Ali Jabini (Electrical and Computer Engineering Major, Mathematics Minor) 2002-2005 Network model for fluid flow through sea ice
- Ben Murphy (Mathematics and Physics Majors) 2002-2004 Statistical mechanics of phase transitions
- Rhett Hadley (Biology Major), Enzymatic foraging of sea ice bacteria
- Adam Gully (Mathematics Major) 2004-2006 Fluid and electrical transport in sea ice
- Olakunle Eso (Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering Majors) 2004-2007 Numerical solutions of the Helmholtz equation
- Megan Morris (Mathematics and Bioengineering Majors) 2004-2007 Network model for fluid flow through sea ice and air flow through lungs
- Kellen Petersen (Mathematics and Physics Majors) 2006-2007 Fluid connectivity in rocks
- Dave Arcilesi (Mathematics and Physics Majors) 2006-2007 Lee-Yang theory in lattice statistical mechanics
- Peter Sommerkorn (Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics Majors) 2007- Experiments on the microstructures and bulk properties of electrorheological (ER) fluids
- Christian Sampson (Mathematics and Physics Majors) 2007- Electrical conductivity of sea ice
- Stephen Greene (Mathematics Major) 2008- Diffusion limited aggregation models for ER fluid microstructures
- Ginger Dobie (Mathematics Major) 2009- Modeling ice-albedo feedback in the Arctic ocean
- Jonathan Ng (Mathematics and Physics Majors) 2009- Modeling melt pond evolution and sea ice albedo
Publications with REU students
- K. M. Golden, A. L. Heaton, H. Eicken and V. I. Lytle, Void bounds for fluid transport in sea ice, Mechanics of Materials, 38, pp. 801-817, 2006.
- J. Zhu, A. Jabini, K. M. Golden, H. Eicken and M. Morris, A network model for fluid transport in sea ice, Annals of Glaciology, 44, pp. 129-133, 2006.
- A. Gully, L. G. E. Backstrom, H. Eicken, and K. M. Golden, Complex bounds and microstructural recovery from measurements of sea ice permittivity, Physica B, 394, pp. 357-362, 2007.
- K. M. Golden, H. Eicken, A. L. Heaton, J. Miner, D. Pringle, and J. Zhu, Thermal evolution of permeability and microstructure in sea ice, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L16501, doi:10.1029/2007GL030447, 6 pages and issue cover, 2007.
- J. Vry, R. Powell, K. M. Golden and K. Petersen, Metamorphic dehydration accompanying exhumation in orogeny, 2009 preprint (8 pages), to be submitted.
- K. M. Golden, T. Finlayson, J. Zhu, and H. Eicken, Bounding the thermal conductivity of sea ice in the presence of brine convection, in preparation.
- L. B. Simeonova, D. C. Dobson, O. Eso, and K. M. Golden, An effective complex permittivity for waves in random media with finite wavelength, 2009 preprint (9 pages), to be submitted.
REU Program in the Mathematics Department
Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Mathematics