Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) - Application Form


Center for Industrial Mathematics and Statistics
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA 01609

Please fill in all requested information:

1. General Information

Family Name:
First Name:
Middle Initial:
Social Security Number:
Date of Birth:
Country of Citizenship:

If you are not a US citizen, are you a permanent resident of the US?   Yes

2. Address

  Current Address Permanent Address
Street
City, State, ZIP
Telephone:
E-mail:

Note: All correspondence will be via e-mail.

3. Ethnicity

Please check all that apply.

(Among applicants who are equally qualified, this information will be used to help us admit an ethnically diverse group of participants. We especially encourage applications from women and ethnic groups historically under-represented in mathemtics graduate programs.)

African-American American-Indian
Asian-American Chicano
European-American Fillipino
Latino Native Alaskan
Puerto Rican  
Other (please specify)

4. Education

List all colleges and universities you have attended, regardless of whether credit or a degree was obtained.

Name of Institution Dates Attended Major

List all advanced mathematics courses you have taken or are taking.

Course Name Textbook (Author) Grade

Projected Date of Graduation:

Rate the extent of your background in the following project areas (0 - little or no experience; 5 - highly experienced), as well as your preference for a project in that area (0 - not at all desirable; 5 - highly preferable). Below each category are links to representative examples of past REU projects in that area.

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Actuarial Mathematics

 Experience:
Preference:

Examples:
Expert System Design for Long Term Care Underwriting (2006)
Volatility Costs for an Assigned Risk Plan (2004)
Estimating the Cost of Extending a Term Insurance Policy (2005)

0 1 2 3 4 5

Applied Statistics

 Experience:
Preference:

Examples:
Quantifying Uncertainty in Predictions of Hepatic Clearance (2007)
Statistical Procedures for Failure-mode Testing of Diagnostic Equipment (2002)

0 1 2 3 4 5

Mathematical &
Statistical Finance

 Experience:
Preference:

Examples:
Modeling Stock Returns and Optimizing Bond Portfolios (2007)
Portfolio Optimization with Non-Smooth Constraints (2005)
Alternate Methods for Covariance Estimation in Portfolio Analysis (2004)
Estimation and Optimization for Pairwise Hedge Portfolios (2003)

0 1 2 3 4 5

Mathematical Modeling

 Experience:
Preference:

Examples:
Mathematical Model of the Self-Tapping Screw Insertion Process (2006, 2007)
1D and 2D Modeling for a Coupled Electromagentic-Thermal Boundary Value Problem (2006)
Numerical Models for Tumor Growth (2004)


Briefly describe your computer programming experience, focusing on the programming languages (e.g., C, C++, Fortran, etc.) and mathematical and statistical software packages (e.g., Matlab, SAS, R, etc.) with which you are most familiar.



Rate the extent of your background in the following application areas (0 - little or no experience; 5 - highly experienced)

Application Area 0 1 2 3 4 5
Physics
Engineering
Finance
Biology

5. Recommendation

Please arrange to have two or three faculty who know you well complete a recommendation form.

Please mail the completed recommendation forms to the address below:

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) 2008 in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics
Center for Industrial Mathematics and Statistics
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA 01609

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Tel: 1-508-831-5241
Fax: 1-508-831-5824
Email: cims@wpi.edu

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