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The 2013 summer program was hosted by
California State University Northridge.
The participants were:
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Jillian Glassett
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Channel Islands
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Ulysses Alvarez
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Fullerton
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Diana Gonzales
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Long Beach
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Brianna Amador
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Northridge
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Luis Mendoza
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Northridge
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Daisy Cuevas
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Pomona
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Joseph Jefferson
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Pomona
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Estefany Flores-Gutierrez
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San Bernardino
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Blaine Kutin
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Channel Islands
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Patrick Kwon
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Long Beach
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Julia Dandurand
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Northridge
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Francisco Ruelas
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Northridge
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Lauren Gomez
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Pomona
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Michael Lessley
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Pomona
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Marisela Hernandez
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San Bernardino
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Asha Cyrs
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Fullerton
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Khoa Cao
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Fullerton
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Andrew Navarro
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Channel Islands
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Goitom Fitwi
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Northridge
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Joseph Chavoya
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Fullerton
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Jeffrey Limbacher
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Northridge
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Maria So
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Northridge
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Adriana Granados
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Pomona
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Mayra McGrath
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San Bernardino
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It was a seven-day-a- week program that
prepared students for taking advanced mathematics courses. Dr. Stephen Breen
(CSU Northridge) assisted by the graduate students Lorena Lopez, Robert
Ostrander, and Austin Nickel worked in the program. Click
here for the list of topics covered in Summer 2013.
The program also had the following speakers:
Dr. Michael Cranston, U.C. Irvine
Dr. Tomothy Lucas, Pepperdine University
Dr. Geoffrey Buhl, CSU Channel Island
Dr. William Yessen, Post-Doc at Rice
University, former CSUN student
Dr. Triet Pham, Post-Doc at Rutgers
University, former CSULB student
Cynthia Flores, Ph.D. candidate at UCSB,
former CSUN student
Peri Shereen, Ph.D. student at UCR, former CSULB student
Donna Blanton, Ph.D. student at UCR, former
CSULB student
Gerardo Zelaya, Master student at CSUN
All talks emphasized the importance of getting
a doctoral degree, how to select and apply to PhD programs and how to be
prepared and succeed in such programs.
We also had Nisha Khilnani, Undergraduate at
CSU Pomona and Omar Mendez, Master student at CSU Pomona, that gave
information about REUs and other summer programs.
*PUMP: PREPARING UNDERGRADUATES through
MENTORING towards PhDs is
designed to help students interested in Mathematics to pursue a successful
career in this field. It is supported by the National Science Foundation .
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