2006 Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Computational Number Theory and Combinatorics
Research Projects
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Please note that some of these works are still in progress!
Possible placements of nonattacking chess pieces.
This group consisted of Jolie Baumann, Saretta Goss and Gretchen Zahm and
was supervised by Neil Calkin, Kevin James and Jeremy Lyle.
They studied configurations of certain chess pieces on boards of
varying shapes and dimensions.
REU report
Covering Congruences
This goup consisted of Amina Dozier, Charles Fahringer and Martin Harrison and
was supervised by Neil Calkin, Kevin James and Jeremy Lyle. They performed
computational investigations of covering congruences.
This group developed parallel code to search for covering
congrueces with a prescribed smallest modulus and with distinct moduli and
proved some elementary results on such covers.
REU Report
Generalizations of the Lang-Trotter Conjecture.
This group consisted of Matthew King, Todd Molnar and Kenny Stauffer and
was supervised by Neil Calkin, Bryan Faulkner and Kevin James. They studied
a generalization of the Lang-Trotter conjecture to the setting of number
fields. They made significant progress toward proving that an average version
of this conjecture holds for many number fields.
REU Report
Modular Forms and Partitions
This group consisted of
Shirley Law, Philip Lee and Jeanne Radder and was
supervised by Neil Calkin, Kevin James and Nathan Drake. They
studied the distribution of the values of certain restricted partition
functions modulo various small primes.
Preprint
Code and documentation