Student Research: Learn through Inquiry

Diving into Research Courses

Diving into Research courses provides opportunities for students to work together in small groups on research projects in Math and Computer Science. A key objective of these courses is to show students that exposure to mathematics and computer science can provide them with the skills to solve problems in a wide range of fields. These courses are designed for, but not limited to, first year students. Read more about these courses.

A Diving into Research course differs from a first-year seminar in three ways:

1. It is a year-long course where you will work on a research project with a small group of students.
2. It is focused in either math or computer science.
3. Credit (1.0) for the Diving into Research course is awarded after completion of two semesters of study.

Learn more about these Diving Into Research Courses:

• CSCI110 - Diving into Research: programming microcontrollers
• CSCI111 - Diving into Computer Science Research/Seminar
• MATH110 - Diving into Research: Rigidity and Geometry
• MATH111 - Diving into Mathematical Research

Some Current Student Research and Active Learning Projects

• Math Problem Solving Team
• Multibody research group
  
  This is a current faculty and student research project which develops efficient algorithms for multi-body systems with applications to robotics, graphics, biochemistry, and many more.

Some Recent Student Honors Projects

• 2007 Peter Stein - 3D Visualization -- See Video of this project
• 2007 Yesh Gunewardena - Analysis of Stock Market Training
• 2006 Ryan_Schenk - Computers_And_Art -- See Video of this project
• 2006 Ryan_Twomey - Network Topologies
• 2005 Jule Slootbeek - Networks - investigating new network protocols
• 2005 Matt Magliocca - Languages - building an assembler for Intel hardware

Some Student-Faculty Published Work

• Joint paper by Jonathon Blumenthal '06, Ihar Valodzin '07, and Professors Li Han and Lee Rudolph, International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (2006). http://parasol.cs.tamu.edu/wafr06/papers/p51.pdf [PDF]
• "Influence of Ramsauer Effect on Bounded Plasmas in Magnetic Field," N. Sternberg and C. Sataline, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA.V. Godyak, RF Plasma Consulting, Brookline, MA, USA, presented at EPS2008, Crete, Greece.