Through this talk, I will introduce some research opportunities for undergraduates, as well as opportunities to prepare for them. In particular, I will spend some time talking about summer research programs (eg., REUs), as well as Math 389 (Explorations in Mathematical Research) and Math 440 (LoG(M)), both of which are running next semester! Following this, I will discuss some standard components of an application to summer research programs.

Time permitting, I will talk about my experience with summer research programs, particularly the Michigan Math REU in 2022 and the Carnegie Mellon Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in 2023, as well as the kind of math I got to learn through these projects.

Please bring your questions!