VIGRE

REU Recruiting for Students

REUs are Research Experiences for Undergraduates. These are programs
all over the country. The letter below is for a program at UCLA. There is much
more information about REUs at the Undergrad Math Site.

October 16, 2003

Dear Colleague, we are very excited to announce the fourth year of
an innovative summer program for undergraduates at UCLA's Institute
for Pure and Applied Mathematics. We are recruiting talented
national and international undergraduates and would be grateful for
your assistance in bringing this program to their attention. Our
program called Research in Industrial Projects for Students ("RIPS")
creates teams of 3-5 undergraduates paired with faculty mentors and
industry liaisons whose goal is to solve real-world industrial
problems. Sponsors included companies such as Pixar and national
laboratories such as Los Alamos. Last summer we completed our 3rd
program and as in the previous two years, it was very successful and
the undergraduates who participated were enthusiastic about their
experience. More information, including comments from students and
information on prior projects can be found on our website at:

http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/rips2004/

Questions can be addressed to rips2004@ipam.ucla.edu

You can view and/or print out a poster for the program (and we'd be
grateful if you could post it in an area visible to undergraduates)
at this url:

http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/rips2004/rips2004_poster.pdf