The Institute provides an opportunity for bright and gifted pre-college
students to interact with university faculty and each other, to take some
challenging math classes that earn college credit, and have fun in an academic
atmosphere. Check with the Institute PHILOSOPHY.
Students take two 4-credit COURSES in
mathematics
or statistics taught by full-time doctoral-holding FACULTY
.
The Summer Mathematics Institute at Oakland University is FREE
to all participants.
The Summer Mathematics Institute at Oakland University is a day camp. Check
with the SCHEDULE.
Completed applications will be given full consideration if received by May
15, 2004. Refer to ADMISSION policy and APPLICATION MATERIALS .
(Flier in pdf format available here and
brochure in pdf format available here.)
The Distinguished Colloquium Speaker: Professor Erik D. Demaine, MIT
Banquet pictures NOW AVAILABLE: zip file
Further information is available from:
The Institute Director and Instructor :
Dr. Eddie Cheng
is Associate Professor in the Department
of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland
University. He joined the faculty of Oakland
University in 1997. He graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons.) from
Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada) in 1988. During the summer
of 1988, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of National
Defence in British Columbia. For his graduate
studies, he earned his M.Math. in 1990 and Ph.D. in Combinatorics and
Optimization from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1995.
From 1995 to 1997, he was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow and part-time lecturer in
the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. He is currently
a member of the examination committee of the Michigan Mathematics Prize
Competition (MMPC). MMPC is a state-wide competition given every year to
thousands of high school students in Michigan. He is also a member of the
editorial board and an associate editor of the journal Networks.
Networks publishes material on the modelling of problems using networks, the
analysis of network problems, the design of computationally efficient network
algorithms, and innovative case studies of successful network applications.
His research interests include
combinatorial optimization, integer programming and network analysis.
He has authored and coauthored about 25 research papers.
The Institute Instructor :
Dr. Jack Nachman
is Professor and Chair of the Department
of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland
University (since 2002). He has been at Oakland
since 1968. He started out as a math education major at Ohio State,
taught high
school for two years, and then decided to go into higher education. He
obtained his doctorate in mathematics also at OSU. One memorable
experience there was teaching calculus to 1500 students at once via
television. Professor Nachman is one of the campus experts in computer
graphics and had taught an entire graphic course via the web.
He is the first member of the department who supervised an Oakland
University Ph.D. graduate (in computer science).
For serveral years Professor Nachman served as mathematics consultant
to Ford Motor Company's Product Development
CAD/CAM group. He has published papers in general topology,
topological dynamics, and analysis of curves and surfaces for CAD.
In addition to his
academic duties, Professor Nachman has served in some administrative
roles: six months as acting Associate Vice President for Academic
Affairs (in charge of the Office of Computer and Information Systems
and the Registrar's Office) and prior to that as the Distance Learning
facilitator. He is currently the co-president of the Great Lakes
Section of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). His
current interests are in applied approximation theory - mathematically
modeling curves and surfaces, especially as they are used in CAD/CAM.