A Primer for Undergraduate Research: From Groups and Tiles to Frames and Vaccines

A pioneering text providing state-of-the-art resources for faculty looking to mentor in undergraduate research and students looking to participate

Contains a wide range of topics, not normally addressed by the undergraduate curriculum, appropriate for student-faculty exploration that are from pure and applied math

A completely self-contained and accessible text with pre-requisites, specific open problems, directions for new research and a carefully selected bibliography included in every chapter

Equips readers to tackle the many challenges of starting undergraduate research

Aaron Wootton, Valerie Peterson and Christopher Lee are all current professors in the Mathematics department of the University of Portland.

Professor Wootton’s research interests include Complex Algebraic Geometry: Defining equations for Riemann Surfaces, Quasiplatonic Surfaces and Dessins D’Enfants, Automorphism Groups of Compact Riemann Surfaces; Group Theory: Finite Groups (Group Actions and Structure Theory), Finitely Presented Groups; Geometric Group Theory: Discrete Groups (Fuchsian Groups and Fundamental Groups), Mapping Class Groups of Compact Connected Surfaces.

Professor Peterson’s research interests include algebraic topology, metric and combinatorial geometry, geometric group theory, and the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Professor Lee’s research interests include equivariant differential topology and geometry. In particular: Hamiltonian Lie group actions on (folded) symplectic and contact manifolds, symmetry in completely integrable systems, applications of (combinatorial and smooth) Morse theory, and singularities of differentiable mappings.