Timeline for How important is it for one on the job market to have thought about suitable REU projects?
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| Sep 13, 2011 at 15:29 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | Nilima - I think you miss the point here, which is that a computation using a numerically poor algorithm based on a bad model still leads to something that (to the student) looks like an answer, whereas a failed attempt to prove some lemmas does not (especially for a student still hazy on what constitutes a proof). | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 3:20 | comment | added | Nilima Nigam | I like this answer, with a caveat- I have found it's quite hard to get a undergraduate student involved in an project on an 'applied or computational' area of mathematics as well. Either the student requires familiarity both with the application as well as the mathematical tools which may be needed, or the student needs to understand the mathematics in depth as well as program. In other words, breadth in the one instance, and depth in the other. So, maybe avoid suggesting projects involving a heavy dose of computation or applications-driven work, unless your students are great. | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 4:59 | history | answered | Alexander Woo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |