Below is a brief summary of the people involved in the 2017 REU, and their results:

PROJECT GROUPS AND RESULTS

1. General Area: Binary quadratic forms
   • • Leader: Kate Thompson
     • Participants:
       • Chris Donnay (Pomona College)
       • Havi Ellers (Harvey Mudd College)
       • Kate O’Connor (2018 Goldwater Scholar, 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellow, The College of New Jersey)
       • Erin Wood (The University of Kentucky, now a Ph.D. candidate in math at the University of Georgia)
     • Results: “Numbers Represented by a Finite Set of Binary Quadratic Forms” (Donnay, Ellers, O’Connor, Thompson, Wood), submitted.
2. General Area: Elliptic curves
   • • Leader: Jeremy Rouse
     • Participants:
       • Skye Binegar (Reed College, now a Ph.D. candidate in math at Georgia Tech)
       • Randy Dominick (Texas Tech University, now a Ph.D. candidate in math at University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
       • Meagan Kenney (Bard College, now a Ph.D. candidate in math at the University of Minnesota)
       • Alex Walsh (Brown University)
     • Results: “An Elliptic Curve Analogue to the Fermat Numbers” (Binegar, Dominick, Kenney, Rouse, Walsh), accepted for publication in Involve.

GUEST SPEAKERS

1. Mitch Keller, Washington & Lee University.
2. Ben Linowitz, Oberlin College.
3. Lola Thompson, Oberlin College.
4. Will Damron (2016 WADE alum).

TALKS ON REU MATERIAL GIVEN

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• “Numbers Represented by a Finite Set of Binary Quadratic Forms” (Donnay, Ellers, O’Connor, Wood). Mock AMS Conference, University of Georgia, July 2017.
• “An Elliptic Curve Analogue to the Fermat Numbers” (Binegar, Dominick, Kenney, Walsh). Mock AMS Conference, University of Georgia, July 2017.

INFORMAL UGA GRADUATE STUDENT PANELISTS

• Sarah Blackwell (2015 WADE alum).
• Catrina May.
• Jason Joseph.
• Andrew Maurer.
• Nate Zbacnik.