VIGRE Internship and Interdisciplinary Outreach

VIGRE II: Vertical Integration of Research and Education
Department of Mathematics -- University of Georgia

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 $4,000 is provided to the student for the summer.

Internships have been available in the past at Boeing, NASA, UGA Engineering, Physics, Marine Sciences, Genetics and the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center.

Application Format

Name
Address
Current year of study
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.)
The reasons for your interest

Please send the above information via email to Dr. Kazanci: caner@uga.edu

IIO-Related Publications

Resulting from Leopold Matamba's internship on "Systems and Engineering Ecology" with Prof. Kazanci during Summer 2007:

Kazanci, C., Matamba, L. and Tollner, E. W., "Cycling in ecosystems: An individual based approach," Ecological Modelling, no. 220, pp. 2908-2914, 2009.
Matamba, L., Kazanci, C., Schramski, J. R., Blessing M., Alexander, P. and Patten, B. C., "Throughflow analysis: A stochastic approach," Ecological Modelling, vol. 220, no. 22, pp. 3174-3181, 2009.