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Geometry and Physics on Graphs This is the wiki for a geometry, physics, and graph theory NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates at Canisius College. Everyone is welcome to read our work but you must login to add things and to make changes. We offer login privileges to those in need; please contact us at the Canisius College Department of Mathematics and Statistics: [1] (http://www.canisius.edu/math/)

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Summer 2008

REU 2008
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REU 2008

REU2008 is mentored by Terry Bisson and B.J. Kahng, with students emily bargar (University of Chicago), Ari Binder (Williams College), Vivian Healey (University of Notre Dame), Rachel Hunter (Cornell University), Colin Klaus (Vanderbilt University), Brian Leary (Carnegie Mellon University), Josh O'Rourke (Reed College), and Gabrielle Paoletti (Canisius College).

Here is a page listing conferences (and journals) Future Conferences for Student Presentations

Tilings Vivian Healey

Groupoids and Graphs Colin Klaus and Brian Leary

Random Walks on Directed Multigraphs Ari Binder and Josh O'Rourke

Zig-Zag Product information Brian Leary

Hypergraphs emily bargar

Simplicial Complexes Gabrielle Paoletti

Box Products, Box Exponentials and Graph Covering Maps Rachel Hunter

Isospectral Graphs

Cayley Graphs

Characteristic Polynomials of Adjacency Matrices of Families of Graphs

Fractals and Graphs

Abstracts for MathFest08

Events for REU08

Here is a page listing links to papers, and lists of pdf files on one of the computers in our work room Some references for REU 2008

Here is a page with information and links to MathFest08 MathFest

You can see the announcement for Summer 2008 at REU2008 (http://www.canisius.edu/~kahngb/reu/)

Summer 2007

REU 2007
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REU 2007

REU2007 was mentored by Terry Bisson and Stratos Prassidis

with students Tim Doster,Alicia Hoffmann, Chelsey Cooley, Eric Lownes, Chloe Johnson, Stefan P. Sabo, Alissa Pioli, and Ben Lerman

(from left to right in the picture).

Here are some pages from the work this summer:

New coverings from groups Alissa Pioli, Chelsey Cooley, Chloe Johnson.
The Zig-Zag Product: Background and Examples... Stefan P. Sabo and Ben Lerman
The Heat Kernel of the K-Regular Tree Eric Lownes and Stefan P. Sabo
Fullerenes Alicia Hoffmann and Tim Doster
Generalizing the Zig-Zag Product of Graphs Ben Lerman
Preliminary work for Summer 2007
Events for REU07

Summer 2006

Summer 2006 Here is a link to a page with some overview on our activities.
REU 2006
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REU 2006

The two projects for Summer 2006 were

Spectral gaps in groups and graphs, directed by Stratos Prassidis, and

Cayley graphs and coverings, directed by Terry Bisson.

Participating students were Clara Brasseur, Julia Lazenby, Taylor Coon, Allison Davis, Ryan Grady, Dominic Dotterrer, Samuel Cooper, and Joe Consiglio.

Events for REU06

Summer 2005

Summer 2005 projects were Covers, Laplacians, and Growth on Graphs, directed by Stratos Prassidis, and

Characteristic polynomials and directed graphs, directed by Terry Bisson.

PICTURE (http://www2.canisius.edu/~prasside/reu_2005/pictures/PIC1.JPG)

Participating students in 2005 were Jordan Volz, Diane Lunman, Angelo Chandler, Robert Marciniak, Tricia Profic, Brian Meagher, David Mittiga, and Jack Wessel.

Events for REU05


Space for this website has been generously provided by Dr. Dewey J. Bayer, Professor of Psychology, Canisius College.


National Science Foundation (REU listings): [2] (http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.cfm?unitid=5044)

American Mathematical Society (REU listings): [3] (http://www.ams.org/employment/reu.html)

Here is a link to Buffalo Blue Bicycles, a local bike-sharing project [4] (http://www.buffalobluebicycle.org/)