Carleton College - Summer Math Program

Summer Mathematics Program for Women Undergraduates

Carleton College

The Carleton College Summer Mathematics Program for Women
is an NSF-funded program to encourage and support women in their study of mathematics. The goals of the program include:

		introducing students to new areas of mathematics;
		honing students' mathematical reasoning, proof writing, problem solving, and presentation skills;
		building self-confidence, encouraging enthusiasm for mathematics, and increasing awareness of opportunities for continued study in the mathematical sciences;
		connecting students into a supportive network of other female college math majors, graduates and professionals to support them through their graduate studies in mathematics.

Admission into this program is highly selective and is limited to female mathematics students who are currently completing their first or second year of college. Students are expected to have had Calculus and Linear Algebra. Participants must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents.

Participants in past programs reported:

"This experience has revived my mathematical soul and charged me up."

"The program has given me the confidence that I can succeed in math, both as a student and as a woman."

"I feel like a future in math was opened for me through the program."

"My confidence, interest and goals in mathematics soared to new heights with the information presented to me through the program."

Photo Courtesy Tom Roster

Program directors:: Deanna Haunsperger, Steve Kennedy, Laura Chihara, Gail Nelson, and Jill Dietz.

Information and application materials for the 2010 program:: Poster for the 2010 program.; Information about the 2010 program.; Applications are now being accepted even though we have not yet heard about NSF funding. We will announce on this website as soon as we hear whether or not we have funding for 2010.
Publications about the Summer Mathematics Program:: "A Serendipitous Sisterhood" in MAA's Math Horizons, September 2007.; "Serendipity and Inadvertence in the Building of Community" in Building Intellectual Community Through Collaboration, Carol Rutz and Mary Savina, Editors, 2007.; "Strength in Numbers" in MAA's FOCUS, February 2001, pp 4-5.; "Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges' Summer Mathematics Program" in AMS's Proceedings of the Conference on Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Research Programs, Joseph Gallian, Editor, 2000.; "Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges' Summer Mathematics Program" in MAA's Women in Mathmematics: Scaling the Heights, Deborah Nolan, Editor, 1997.; "Summer Mathematics Program for Women" in AWM's Newsletter, 1996.
Highlights and photos from previous summers
(We will be updating this eventually to highlight all thirteen past programs.): Celebrating our Tenth Year in 2005; Summer `95; Summer `96; Summer `97; Summer `98; Summer `99; Summer `00; Summer `01
Links to mathematical topics: Mathematical Association of America; Research Experiences for Undergraduates; Career Information; Graduate School Survival Information; Budapest Semesters in Mathematics; Edge Program for Women headed to graduate school; Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters at Penn State; SIAM's (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Undergraduate Page; Biographies of women mathematicians (Agnes Scott College; Atlanta, Georgia); Women In Math website at University of Oregon; Readings on Women and Mathematics Education

The program is being held on the Carleton College campus in Northfield, Minnesota, which is located approximately forty miles south of Minneapolis.

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