Every summer, many of our students participate in various summer research programs. Students work as full participants in the processes of creating a research plan, executing a research project and preparing results for presentation in a public forum. Learn more about the research done by your fellow mathematics and statistics students.
This week's panelists include a couple of seniors who worked off-campus for their research.
Jimmy Baker ‘26 studied representation theory and lattice models, a concept first introduced in the field of statistical mechanics. His focus was to study certain solvable lattice models and prove that their associated generating functions match interesting special functions.
Owen Rodstrom ‘26 worked with the Polymath Jr. Program at Lewis University. Clostridiodes difficile is a common bacterial infection in hospitals and long-term care facilities. We used current literature to build a system of differential equations that models its spread in the community. We could then apply mitigation strategies to our system in order to find effective ways to prevent its emergence in hospitals.
Join us on Monday, Sept. 22, at 3:10 pm in Hayes Hall 109 to hear these exciting presentations and perhaps learn how you too can get involved in summer research programs. We hope to see you there!