2007 Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Computational Number Theory and Combinatorics
Research Projects


Please note that some of these works are still in progress!

High order elements in finite fields

This goup consisted of Jessica Burkhard, Justine Chasmar, Shelly Manber and Jared Ruisz and was supervised by Neil Calkin, Kevin James and Ethan Smith. They studied the production of elements of finite fields of provably high order.

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Sumfree sets

This group consisted of Nikhil Gupta, Sujin Headrick and Bobby Wilson and was supervised by Neil Calkin, Nathan Drake and Kevin James. They studied bounds on the size of the largest sumfree subset of an arbitrary set of natural numbers.

REU Report


K-saturated graphs

This group consisted of Cliff Bridges, Amanda Day and Shelly Manber and was supervised by Neil Calkin, Kevin James and Jeremy Lyle. They studied k-saturated graphs.

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