DIMACS/VIGRE REU Summer 2002 Calendar
Monday, June 10 Arrival day. Receive housing and office assignments from staff at DIMACS
Tuesday, June 11 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar.
Speaker:Stephanie Forrest, Professor of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
Title: Why a Computer Needs an Immune System and Why an Immune System Needs a Computer
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, DIMACS Center, Room 431, Rutgers University
Lunch will be served.


Dinner reception and orientation.
Time and location: 5:30pm in the DIMACS Lounge, Room 401.
Thursday, June 13 Reaserch Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar.
Speaker:Dr. Ira Schwartz , Naval Research Laboratory
Title:Chaotic Epidemic Outbreaks: Are They Deterministic or Random?
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, DIMACS Center, Room 431, Rutgers University
Lunch will be served.
Monday, June 17 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar
Speaker: Eva Curry, Graduate Student, Rutgers University
Title: How To Give a Talk
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, DIMACS Center, Room 431, Rutgers University.
Lunch will be served.
Wednesday, June 19 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar
Speakers: Stephen Greenfield, Director of the Graduate Program, and
Eva Curry, Graduate Student, Mathematics Department, Rutgers University. 
Title: Applying to Graduate School
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, DIMACS Center, Room 431, Rutgers University
Lunch will be served.
Thursday, June 20 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Student Presentations
Time and location 1:00 pm, DIMACS Center, Room 431, Rutgers University
Friday, June 21 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Student Presentations
Time and location: 1:00 pm, DIMACS Center, Room 431, Rutgers University
Wednesday, June 26 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar
Speaker: Jeff Kahn, Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers University
Title: Long Range Effects in Discrete Systems
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, DIMACS Center, Room 431, Rutgers University.
Lunch will be served.
Wednesday, July 3 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar
Speaker: Eva Curry, Graduate Student, Rutgers University
Title:Wavelets, Multiresolution Analyses, Filters, and My Summer Research Project
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, DIMACS Center, Room 431, Rutgers University.
Lunch will be served.
Tuesday, July 9 AT&T Labs-Research Visit
Time and location: 11:30 am - 3 pm, AT&T Labs-Research.
Lunch will be served.
Wednesday, July 10 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar
Speaker: Eric Allender, Professor of Computer Science, Rutgers University
Title: Randomness and Complexity
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, DIMACS Center, Room 431, Rutgers University.
Lunch will be served.
Thursday, July 11 Research Experiencs for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar
Speakers: Martin Mares, DIMATIA REU Coordinator, and
Jakub Cerny, Zdenek Dvorak, Vit Jelinek, and Pavel Podbrdsky, DIMATIA REU Students
Title: A Brief Introduction to Prague, Czech Republic and the Charles University
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, DIMACS Center, Room 431, Rutgers University
Lunch will be served.
Friday, July 12 Nucleic Acids Database(NDB)/REU Swop
Joint pizza party and NDB project presentations.
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, PDB Doolittle Building, Room 111, Rutgers University.
Tuesday, July 16 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar
Speaker: Rebecca Wright
Title: Privacy in Today's World: Solutions and Challenges
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE A, Room 301, Rutgers University.
Lunch will be served.
Wednesday, July 17 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar
Speaker: Robert E. Jamison, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University
Title: Rank Tolerance Graph Classes
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE A, Room 301, Rutgers University.
Lunch will be served.
Thursday, July 18 REU presentations to the DCI program
Time and location: 11:30 am, 1st Floor Auditorium, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University
Abstracts
Lunch will be served after the presentaions.
Friday, July 19 Nucleic Acids Database(NDB)/REU Swop
Joint pizza party and REU project presentations.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE A, Room 301, Rutgers University.
Wednesday, July 24 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar
Speaker: Jozsef Beck, Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers University
Title: Generating Functions in Combinatorics and Number Theory
Time and locaion: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE A, Room 301, Rutgers University
Lunch will be served at 12 pm.


Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Final Presentations
Talks will begin at 2:15 pm.
For details visit the Schedule of Events


Dinner Reception
Time and location: 6:00 pm, DIMACS Lounge.
Thursday, July 25 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Final Presentation
Talks will begin at 11:40 am.
For details visit the Schedule of Events
Saturday, July 27 REU students leave for DIMATIA
Friday, August 2 End of U.S. REU program
Wednesday, August 14 End of DIMATIA REU program

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