Department of Mathematics

Kansas State University

Center for Integration of Undergraduate and Graduate Research

A major emphasis of the I-center is to provide directed research experience for our undergraduate majors as soon as possible and in an area of their choice. The center also promotes graduate research. The center employs four postdoctoral fellows who serve for three year terms. The center hosts conferences, mini courses and extended visits from distinguished faculty from around the world. The center sponsors I-center undergraduate scholars who are paired with faculty or graduate student mentors and organizes teams of undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, and faculty jointly working on cutting edge problems in Applied Math/Differential Equations, Algebra/Number Theory, Modern Analysis, and Geometry/Topology. The center runs a freshman seminar, and a contest problem seminar class in the fall and a mathematical modeling seminar class in the spring. It also hosts our Brainstorming and Barnstorming REU program, and is in the process of creating an extended math physics magnet program that should run throughout the school year. The I-Center also administers a dual Ph.D. agreement between K-State and the Universite de Paris Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI).

For more information about the center or activities related to the center contact our director Marianne Korten. Her contact info is:

Current and Upcoming I-Center Events

• Graduate Student Seminar Thursdays, 4:30, in CW 122

  The graduate student organized and graduate student run seminar has it's own webpage now.

  Thanks to Ibrahim Saleh.

• GRE Prepping Team

  We are offering math GRE prepping on Thursdays at 4pm, in Burt 204, starting 9/10.

  Thanks to Sarah Reznikoff, Ricardo Castano-Bernard, Ivan Blank, Chuck Moore, Marianne Korten, who are donating hours (more hour donations are welcome! - contact Marianne or Tom) and Tom Muenzenberger for putting together the logistics and keeping us on the ball.

• Panel on Graduate School 10/12/09

  The I-Center and the Undergraduate Director will be hosting a panel in the Undergraduate Math Seminar MATH 199 about Graduate Studies in Mathematics on October 12 from 1:30 to 2:20 p.m. in CW 122.

  Our panel members will be Rachel Manspeaker, MS; Peter Nguyen, MS; Vincent Pigno; graduate/doctoral students in our Department and our alumna LaVerne Bitsie-Baldwin, MS, Director of the Multicultural Engineering Program. All of our panel members obtained their undergraduate degrees in the U.S., like probably all of you.

  The main questions we want to look at are:

  1-How did you end up in math grad school?

  2-How is math grad school? What do people do there?

  3-How much does it cost/pay

  4-What comes after?

  5-What helps you stay safe there? What to do beforehand to be in good shape? Is it really so scary?

  6-Whatever else comes to mind.

  Tom Muenzenberger and Marianne Korten will loosely moderate, and LaVerne Bitsie-Baldwin will function as both a panel member and a moderator.

• Panel on Undergraduate Research 10/19/09

  The I-Center and the Undergraduate Director will be hosting a panel in the Undergraduate Math Seminar MATH 199 about Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (and a bit more) on October 19 from 1:30 to 2:20 p.m. in CW 122.

  Abstract coming soon.

• Panel on NSF Career proposal prepapartion 2/10

  Zongzu Lin, currently on leave while serving as a Program Officer at the NSF, will lead a discussion on the preparation of Career proposals. This panel is geared toward assistant professors and postdocs preparing, or soon to prepare Career proposals.

  We expect to have additional speakers joining Zongzhu.