Award Abstract # 1820731
Recruitment and Mentoring in Mathematics Program

NSF Org: DMS
Division Of Mathematical Sciences
Recipient: RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Initial Amendment Date: August 1, 2018
Latest Amendment Date: April 17, 2023
Award Number: 1820731
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Swatee Naik
snaik@nsf.gov
 (703)292-4876
DMS
 Division Of Mathematical Sciences
MPS
 Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Start Date: August 1, 2018
End Date: July 31, 2024 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $477,136.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $477,136.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2018 = $477,136.00
History of Investigator:
  • Gautam Chinta (Principal Investigator)
    gchinta@ccny.cuny.edu
  • Sandra Kingan (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • William Hooper (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Cesar Valverde (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Robert Donley (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: CUNY City College
160 CONVENT AVE
NEW YORK
NY  US  10031-9101
(212)650-5418
Sponsor Congressional District: 13
Primary Place of Performance: CUNY City College
Convent Ave at W. 138th St
New York
NY  US  10031-9101
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
13
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): L952KGDMSLV5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM,
WORKFORCE IN THE MATHEMAT SCI
Primary Program Source: 01001819DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 9251
Program Element Code(s): 126000, 733500
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.049

ABSTRACT

This grant will run a Recruitment and Mentoring in Mathematics Program (RAMMP) program, with the purpose of increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups entering doctoral programs in mathematical sciences. For three years, ten advanced undergraduate students will divide into teams and engage in mentored summer research projects in mathematics. The students will develop their interests in mathematics in an active, supportive community of peers. The program will be run at the City University of New York, an institution known for its student diversity, and will expose talented students to mathematical research and related activities, which form the daily work of a doctoral student but which many undergraduates never experience. This experience together with mentorship and community building activities continuing throughout the year will encourage the student participants to pursue higher degrees and careers in the mathematical sciences.

Research problems will be selected from the fields of faculty members participating in the program including Number Theory, Combinatorics, Algebra, Dynamical Systems, and Geometry. The problems will have a significant computational component and will be chosen so that even partial student progress will advance the long-term research agendas of their faculty mentors. Mentors will choose accessible, open questions whose resolution would lead to the discovery of new phenomena or new proof techniques with broad applicability.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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ANTON, GEORGE and MALATHU, JESSEN A. and STINSON, SHELBY and Friedman, J. S. "ON AN INTEGRAL OF -BESSEL FUNCTIONS AND ITS APPLICATION TO MAHLER MEASURE" Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , 2021 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0004972721000484 Citation Details
CHEN, YANG and JORGENSON, JAY and LOPEZ, LUIS and SMAJLOVIC, LEJLA "The heat kernel on a finite graph in different Time-scales" Turkish Journal of Mathematics , v.48 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-0098.3544 Citation Details

PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT

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This grant funded undergraduate students to work with faculty mentors on a directed research project during the summers of 2019-2024.  During these 6 summers, 39 students worked in 12 research groups.  This program was based primarily at The City College of New York, with the exception of two summers (Summer 2020 and Summer 2021) when all activities were conducted remotely.  The student participants were drawn primarily from CUNY and other area institutions and consequently reflect the diversity of the Greater New York City area.  

The student groups conducted research in varied fields of mathematics, including projects on heat kernels on discrete groups, higher order Jacobian ideals, the Collatz conjecture, and combinatorics of Young lattices.  The research conducted by the student groups has thus far resulted in three publications and several more preprints.  Results have been presented in talks and poster sessions at area conferences.

In addition to gaining experience in conducting mathematical research, the student participants received further guidance in their professional development via talks and workshops on topics such as document/poster preparation, how to prepare and give a lecture, and applying to and being successful in graduate school.  

In fact, one focus of the program was to help identify, recruit and support students from traditionally underrepresented groups with an interest in graduate studies in mathematics.  Roughly a third of the student participants have pursued graduate studies in mathematics or a related field and several more are currently applying to PhD programs in mathematics.


Last Modified: 11/26/2024
Modified by: Gautam Chinta

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