Students take two 4-credit COURSES in mathematics or statistics taught by full-time doctoral-holding FACULTY .
The Summer Mathematics Institute at Oakland University is FREE to all participants.
The Summer Mathematics Institute at Oakland University is a day camp. Check with the SCHEDULE.
Completed applications will be given full consideration if received by May 15, 2009. Refer to ADMISSION policy and APPLICATION MATERIALS (including problem set). Brochure in pdf format available here. Flyer in pdf format available here.

The Distinguished Colloquium Speaker: Paul Seymour (Princeton University)

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The Institute Director and Instructor :
Dr. Eddie Cheng is Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland University. He joined the faculty of Oakland University in 1997. He graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons.) from Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada) in 1988. During the summer of 1988, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of National Defence in British Columbia. For his graduate studies, he earned his M.Math. in 1990 and Ph.D. in Combinatorics and Optimization from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow and part-time lecturer in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. He was the Director of the Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition (MMPC) from 2005 to 2008. He is currently a member of the examination committee of MMPC, a position that he held prevouslyfrom 2001 to 2005. MMPC is a state-wide competition given every year to thousands of high school students in Michigan. He is also a member of the editorial board and an associate editor of the journal Networks. Networks publishes material on the modelling of problems using networks, the analysis of network problems, the design of computationally efficient network algorithms, and innovative case studies of successful network applications. His research interests include combinatorial optimization, integer programming and network analysis. He has authored and coauthored about 50 research papers. He is the recipient of the 2007 Mathematical Association of America (Michigan Section) Distinguished Teaching Award.

The Institute Instructor :
Dr. Serge Kruk is Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland University. He joined the faculty of Oakland University in 2000. After studying physics, computer science, engineering and philosophy in Montreal in the seventies, he entered the industrial world where he spent more than a decade designing optimization software, telecommunication protocols and real-time controllers. He left Bell-Northern Research in 1993 to become a student again. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 2001. He taught mathematics and computer science at Waterloo, Wilfrid-Laurier and finally Oakland. His current research interests still bear the stamp of practicality enforced by years in industry: algorithms for semidefinite optimization, scheduling, feasibility and the related numerical linear algebra and analysis. He has authored and coauthored 18 research papers.