VIGRE Internship and
Interdisciplinary Outreach (IIO)
As part of the VIGRE program at UGA, we have an Internship and
Interdisciplinary Outreach program. This program serves as the central
point for students to work on research projects with researchers off
campus or researchers outside of the Mathematics Department. These
internships can be a useful place for students to get a feel for how
mathematics is used in a wider context and to get experience with a
focused project. Former students participating in this program have
worked on research projects off campus at NASA, Boeing and other
industrial or government laboratories. These internships are usually
coordinated by the laboratories, who manage their own internship
program. The IIO may be approached with any questions about such
internships.
Students have also participated in the Summer Interdisciplinary
Internship Program with projects across campus in departments such as
Engineering, Bioinformatics and Marine Science. For these (UGA based)
summer internships, a VIGRE seminar is scheduled sometime during the
Fall semester. In this seminar, UGA researchers with interdisciplinary
projects for internships present a talk describing their project to
mathematics graduate students. Students interested in pursuing one of
these summer research internships then submit a (very brief, see below)
application in the late winter (usually February) and a selection is
made within a month. A stipend of $3,500 is provided to the student for
the summer.
Application Format:
1) Name
2) Address
3) Current year of study
4) Background information (This should include a list of advanced
undergraduate and graduate courses taken in either mathematics or
biological topics and any experience that you have with computers or
programming.)
5) The internship that you are interested in and the reasons for your
interest
Please send the above information via email to Dr. Sornborger:
ats@math.uga.edu
Former IIO Participants:
Bree Ettinger (Boeing)
Jeremy Praissman (NASA)
Leopold Matamba-Messi (Ecological Engineering)
Louis Yang Liu (Marine Science)
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