Undergraduate Research
Carnegie Mellon students encounter frontier of mathematical research through many routes, including reading and research courses and summer research opportunities.
SURF/SURA
The Carnegie Mellon Office of Undergraduate Research offers two programs to support undergraduate research. The SURA (Summer Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship) program is primarily designed for students with no prior research experience and offers students tuition-free credit for working with a CMU faculty mentor over the summer. The SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) program is primarily designed for students with prior research experience, and it provides students a stipend for working with a CMU faculty mentor over the summer. Through the generosity of alumni, the Department has been able to expand the availability of SURF fellowships in mathematics.
Summer SURF Projects:
REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates)
Many universities in the US host summer undergraduate research experience programs, known as REUs. Many of these are supported by the NSF, and they usually offer a stipend to student participants. For a list of mathematics REU programs and useful links visit the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) websites.
Carnegie Mellon hosts a summer undergraduate research program called the Summer Undergraduate Applied Mathematics Institute (SUAMI), primarily for students from outside Carnegie Mellon.
New Sampling in High Dimensions
NSF supported REU in Applied Math
This REU is a fully funded opportunity for undergraduate students and focuses on mathematical aspects of problems encountered when sampling from probability distributions in high dimensions.
21-410 Research Topics in Mathematical Sciences
This course affords undergraduates an opportunity to pursue elementary research topics in the area of expertise of the instructor. The prerequisites will depend on the content of the course. In some cases, this course is offered in the semester after an advanced undergraduate course is taught by the same instructor on the same topic.
SEMS
SEMS (Summer Experiences in Mathematical Sciences) is a program where Carnegie Mellon mathematics majors can do research during the summer in a group with a faculty-mentor.