Michael Zieve Department of Mathematics University of Michigan

zieve at umich.edu http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~zieve/

2011 Research Experiences for Undergraduates

Basic Information
Michael Zieve's 2011 REU program was part of the larger REU program in the math department at the University of Michigan. Due to the students' schedules, the program was only four weeks long. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation

Mentors
Zachary Scherr   (PhD student)
Michael Zieve   (Associate Professor)

Participants
Geoff Iyer   (University of Michigan junior)
Feiqi Jiang   (University of Michigan junior)
Molly Logue   (University of Michigan freshwoman)
Dominic Spadacene   (University of Michigan junior)

Subsequent developments
Geoff is in graduate school at UCLA.
Feiqi is in graduate school at Columbia.
Molly and Dominic won second prize at the 2011 OSU Young Mathematicians' Conference.

Papers
Geoff Iyer, Feiqi Jiang and Michael Zieve, Sets of periodic points of polynomial mappings of rings
Molly Logue, Dominic Spadacene and Michael Zieve, Slowly growing backwards orbits of rational functions