Resources

It can be difficult to find opportunities for REUs, mentoring programs, fellowships, etc., so we’ll post opportunities that we’re aware of here. If there’s something you think is missing here, please reach out to us at mathclub at stonybrook.edu.

At Stony Brook

• ASTC’s list of campus tutoring services: Various free tutoring/extra help resources for students at Stony Brook.
• Directed Reading Program (DRP) in Math: Program pairing undergraduates with graduate student mentors to do readings in mathematics, running every other semester.
• MAT major advising: Several mathematics faculty members regularly hold hours for major advising.
• Math Dept. events calendar: List of all the coming seminars/talks hosted by the Math Department.
• Stony Brook Putnam Seminar: Fall seminar run by Prof. Hough every Friday, focusing on problem solving for the William Lowell Putnam Exam.
• Stony Brook Summer Math Scholarship: Annual 12-month enhanced REU concerning topics in (usually) dynamics or geometry, for undergraduate math majors at Stony Brook.
• Undergraduate Research & Activities (URECA): Program promoting undergraduate research at Stony Brook; provides funding to students engaged in research, offers some general advice relating to undergraduate research, and maintains a list of summer opportunities of interest to Stony Brook students.
• You may be able to find a copy of your math course’s textbook at the math/physics/astro library or our library.

REUs

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs provide an opportunity to conduct research in some topic over the summer.

• NSF sponsored REUs: The National Science Foundation’s list of REUs it funds.
  • NSF Education & Training Application (ETAP): Centralized application portal for (some?) NSF REUs.
• AMS’s list of REUs: Maintained by the American Mathematical Society, concerning summer math opportunities, including REUs and summer schools.
  • mathprograms.org: Commonly used application portal for opportunities in math, maintained by the American Mathematical Society.
• mathreuprograms.org: Large list of REU programs, overlapping with the previous lists.
• “How to Apply to Math REUs”: Advice on applying to REUs from a graduate student, based on personal experience.
• Individual programs:
  • See Stony Brook’s own enhanced REU above.
  • PCMI’s summer school: Runs annually, with opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students. Notably not an REU.
  • Polymath Jr.: Work in large groups on projects over the summer, with a wide variety of potential mentors. Online, unfunded, able to accept international students and part-time program commitments.

Scholarships/fellowships

• Two Sigma scholarships: For undergraduates and PhD students in STEM; must be in your 3rd or 4th year of study when receiving the scholarship.
• See this page by the External Scholarship & Fellowship Advising office for more information on the following scholarships, as campus nomination may be required:
  • Goldwater scholarship: For sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research careers in mathematics, science, or engineering; must be a US citizen/national or permanent resident.
  • Churchill scholarship: For seniors in STEM, funds a year of study at Cambridge (e.g. for Part III of the Maths Tripos).
  • DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF): For undergraduate seniors, master’s students, and first year doctoral students in research areas related to high-performance computing.
  • Fulbright scholarship: For seniors and graduate students: federal fellowship for research and teaching abroad. Campus nomination required.
  • Hertz fellowship: For seniors and first-year graduate students in STEM.
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP): Prestigious federal fellowship for students in STEM.
    • For undergraduates (unlimited applications, but usually just seniors), and graduate students (first-years only).
    • Associated to the SUNY GREAT award, a one-time $5000 award for incoming/current graduate students at a SUNY who won a GRFP spot/honorable mention. Make sure to allow your honorable mentions to be announced while applying for the GRFP.
    • Resources:
      • NSF video series
      • Recordings of a series of workshops by the University of Utah
      • Alex Lang’s NSF Fellowship webpage
• Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity (GFSD): For graduate students in STEM; multi-year fellowship, with opportunities for internships in industry or government.
• Actuarial scholarships:
  • Actuarial Foundation scholarships: Various programs for students interested in the actuarial sciences.
  • Organization of Latino Actuaries (OLA) scholarships: Various programs to support Hispanic actuarial students.
• Google scholarships: Various.
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Merit-based scholarships for students of Hispanic heritage at the undergraduate or graduate level.

Miscellaneous

• Terry Tao’s blog: Personal blog of UCLA’s Prof. Tao; contains very insightful advice for all those interested in mathematics.
• AMS Find Graduate Programs: A giant list of graduate programs that can be filtered in many ways. Not every notable program is on here, but it’s a great place to start.

Mathematics recreation

Here is a page full of some of the best in mathematical games that can be played in either the browser or downloaded. Please note the system requirements for some of these programs.

• Planarity: the classic in this genre (in the former President’s opinion), this game challenges you to move the vertices of a graph so that no edges are crossing. It can be ramped up in difficulty by increasing the number of vertices in the graph.
• Nim 1/2: Here are two sites where you can play the classic combinatorial game of Nim.
• Torus Games: a bundle of games that take traditional ones like tic-tac-toe and put them not on the Euclidean plane, but on other exciting surfaces like the torus and Klein bottle.
• 3-dimensional.space: Not so much a game as an interactive tour of the 8 Thurston Geometries. These are the 8 possibilities for model geometries in 3-space.