2011 SUMMER REU

June 6 - July 30, 2011

From left to right: Marion Scheepers (mentor), Jonathan Siegel (Santa Cruz University), Jens

Harlander (mentor), Andrew Kimball (Western Carolina University), Chao Xu (Stony Brook

University), Anna Nelson (Boise State University), Hannah Brown (Dixie College), Alyssa

Bowden (Loyola Marymount University), Jacob Herlin (University of Northern Colorado),

Kameryn Williams (Boise State University), Liljana Babinkostova (mentor)

REU students during the Math 2011 Scientific Workshops

THE CONJUGACY TEAM

Chao Xu, Hannah Brown and Jonathan Siegel

THE CILIATE TEAM

Anna Nelson and Jacob Herlin

DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD TEAM

Kameryn Williams, Alyssa Bowden and Andrew Kimball

The REU students and their mentors discuss their work on the projects

Katherine Stange, Stanford University

gives a talk to the REU students

Alyssa, Andrew and Kameryn

work on the construction of

secure S-boxes for Simplified

Data Encryption Standard

over Elliptic Curves.

Hannah, Jonathan and Chao at the Summer Undergraduate Research

Poster Conference at Boise State

Jacob Herlin

Anna Nelson Anna and Jacob give a

talk about their research

at the Math REU weekly

presentations.

Kameryn Williams give a talk at the Math REU

weekly presentations about his research work with

Alyssa and Andrew on the DES project.

Chao Xu give a talk at the weekly presentations about his research

contribution to the Conjugacy Research Project

Lawrence Washington from

the University of Maryland

gives a talk to the REU students

about Hash functions, sponge

functions, and the birthday

paradox.

REU students and mentors having lunch at one of the restaurants in

downtown Boise.

Memories … Fun … Study

REU students at the Harry

Potter midnight premiere in

Boise

2011 Research Experience

for Undergraduates

Poster Conference

About 90 students that conducted research during the summer at BSU and 15

faculty from Mathematics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biological Sciences

have participated in the university’s first STEM Summer Research

Conference

REU 2011 Symposium poster

Hannah Brown Jacob Herlin Kameryn Williams

REU 2011 Symposium in Mathematics

Alyssa Bowden Jonathan Siegel

REU 2011 Symposium in Mathematics

Anna Nelson Andrew Kimball Chao Xu

REU 2011 Symposium in Mathematics

End of REU 2011 Symposium in Mathematics

Andrew Kimball

Alyssa Bowden

Jacob Herlin

Kameryn Williams

Hannah Brown

Anna Nelson

Chao Xu

Jonathan Siegel

End of REU 2011 Symposium

Great REU Summer 2011