MATHCOUNTS® at WPI
This summer day program offered from 9:00am-12:30pm focuses on introducing talented middle school students in mathematics to successful MATHCOUNTS® problem-solving techniques. MATHCOUNTS® is a national math enrichment, coaching, and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics in every state and U.S. territory.
August 9-13 | Audience: Students entering grades 6-8.
Program Fee: $195
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Application deadline: July 15, 2010
For more information please contact the Summer Office at 508-831-5517.
Meet the Faculty!
Irina Mitrea
Associate Professor
Educational Background
- B.S./M.S. University of Bucharest, Romania, 1993
- Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2000
Recent Publications
- Spectral Theory and Iterative Methods for the Maxwell System in Nonsmooth Domains, with K. Ott, to appear in Mathematische Nachrichten (2010).
- Mixed Boundary Value Problems for the Stokes System, with R. Brown, M. Mitrea, and M. Wright, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 362 (2010) 1211-1230.
- On the Interplay between several complex variables, geometric measure theory and harmonic analysis, with M. Mitrea and M-C. Shaw, to appear in Revue Roumaine de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees (2010).
- Coercive energy estimates for differential forms in semi-convex domains, with D. Mitrea, M. Mitrea, and L. Yan, to appear in Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, (2010).
- On the Dirichlet and Regularity Problems for the Bi-Laplacian in Lipschitz Domains, with M. Mitrea, Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, Volume 1, Analytic Methods, Birkauser Boston, (2009), 245-254
Service and Outreach:
- Spring 2009: Organizer of the conference Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Elliptic PDE , May 8th-10th, 2009
- Summer 2009: Lecturer at the 2009 Program for Women and Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, June 8-19, 2009
- Spring 2008: Coordinator for the Mathematics and Science Day for the Young Women Leaders Program , January 26, 2008
- F07-S08: Organizer of the 2008 University of Virginia Mathematical Contest in Modeling; 2007 Edition;
- F07-S08: Coach for the American Mathematics Competitions and Virginia Mathematics League at the Charlottesville High School
- F07-S09: MathCounts Coach for the Sutherland Middle School Mathematics Teams; 2009 Regional Competition Performance; 2008 Regional Competition Performance
- S08: MathCounts at UVa Summer Program; 2008 Brochure
- S06-S08: Girls and Mathematics Summer Program; 2008 Brochure ; 2007 Brochure; NBC News Coverage ; 2006 Brochure
- Spring 2006: Math Club, Spring 2006 ; Math Club Spring 06 Poster
A typical day in the MathCounts Program:
| Time | Tuesday |
| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Sign-In |
| 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. | Warm Up Session |
| 9:50 – 10:00 a.m. | Break |
| 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. | Factoring |
| 10:50 – 11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 – 11:50 a.m. | Sprint Round |
| 11:50 – 12:00 p.m. | Break |
| 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. | Countdown Round |
| 12:30 – 12:45 p.m. | Sign-Out |
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