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, 2005. Refer to ADMISSION policy and APPLICATION MATERIALS (including problem set).
(Flyer in pdf format available here and
brochure in pdf format available here .)
The Distinguished Colloquium Speaker: Jim Douglas, Jr., Compere and Marcella Loveless Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computational Mathematics, Purdue University.
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
the Director of the Michigan Mathematics Prize
Competition (MMPC). He served as a member of the examination committee from
2000 to 2004. 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 30 research papers.
The Institute Instructor :
Dr. Subbaiah Perla
is a Professor in the Department
of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland
University. He joined the faculty of Oakland University in 1976. He
received M. Stat. from Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta in 1969 and
Ph. D. in Statistics from University of Rochester in 1975. Prior to joining
Oakland University, he was at the University of Vermont from 1975 to 1976 as an
Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the department of epidemiology
and the department of mathematics. He teaches applied and theoretical courses
in statistics for undergraduate and graduate students. He has done consulting
work with several engineers from auto-industry, doctors from different
disciplines, and faculty and graduate students at Oakland University from
different departments. His research interests include multivariate statistical
methods, linear models, design of experiments and quality control.
He has published more than 40 research papers.