Mathematical Sciences: Research in Applied Mathematics
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The focus of research to be carried out under this REU site                award will be the applications of mathematics.  Eight students                  will have the opportunity to use one or more areas of mathematics               in a meaningful way.  These include the study of mechanical or                  electrical devices whose behavior can be approximated by a                      relatively simple dynamical system, e.g. a system of ordinary                   differential equations, which can be expected to have interesting               properties such as periodicity or chaotic behavior.  Other                      students will be introduced to problems in number theory.  In                   particular, problems of finding large primes and of factoring                   large numbers will be investigated.  This research will involve                 both theoretical and computational work.                                             Analytical and numerical models for the evolution of                       mudwaves at the bottom of the ocean will be carried out.                        Students will study existing models and learn about more                        realistic ways to represent erosion and deposition in the ocean.                These studies will be used to develop more sophisticated models                 of these complex phenomena.                                                          Research will also be carried out in theoretical population                biology, using stochastic dynamic programming to study                          behavioral problems in a evolutionary context.  Students involved               in this area will learn the technique of dynamic programming from               analytical and numerical studies of simple (and largely                         unrealistic) foraging models, then proceed to numerical                         experiments with models that are more realistic.  A specific goal               will be to explore various aspects of dispersal behavior in                     insects.                                                                             Topological applications in chemistry and molecular biology                will be used to model configurations in large molecules,                        molecular systems and dynamical processes in chemical reactions.                Students will use knot theory to model DNA enzyme reactions and                 study topological entanglements of large polymer molecules in                   semicrystalline polymers.
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