The CSU Channel Islands Mathematics Research Experience for Undergraduates allows four undergraduate students to explore the world of mathematical research in a six week residential summer program. Each participant is awarded a $3500 stipend plus a weekly food stipend and provided a room in Anacapa Village. Students and two faculty members work together in a variety of activities to achieve the goals listed below.
Goals · Raise the mathematical maturity level of the program’s participants. · Get participants excited about doing mathematical research. · Create a learning community. · Help participants develop the confidence to succeed in ongoing mathematical studies. · Increase participants’ skills in communicating mathematics. · Extend the participants’ abilities to read, understand, construct, and write proofs. · Acquaint participants with the culture and activities of research mathematics. · Develop participants’ skills in reading professional-level mathematics. · Give the participants technical tools for future mathematical learning and research. (LaTeX, MathSciNet, presentation software)			2007 participants at the Student Poster Contest, Joint Mathematics Meetings San Diego, CA, January 2008
CSUCI campus	Our beautiful campus lies six miles from the Pacific Ocean at the edge of the Santa Monica Mountains, just west of Camarillo, CA.
Students eligible for this opportunity will be undergraduates as of Fall 2009 and will be members of minorities currently under-represented in the mathematical sciences (African Americans, Latino Americans, American Indians, and Native Pacific Islanders). Students will ideally have completed three semesters of Calculus and one semester of Linear Algebra, but should inquire should individual circumstances be different. Upper division proof-based mathematics courses are recommended.
Application and Details		Aids for past participants 2008 posters and presentations
Page last updated:  March 19, 2009.