This page will serve a future REU "Polynomials and Their Zeros" that will be tentatively held at the Department of Mathematics of Oklahoma State University in summers. We hope to start this REU school in summer 2024, depending on availability of funding from NSA and NSF.

The topics of polynomials and their zeros cross practically all areas of mathematics, and go far beyond into many sciences. Yet many of such problems are very easy to understand for undergraduates, and they also have quite accessible partial ingredients. The REU will start with several carefully prepared mini-courses designed to refresh the basic knowledge on polynomials, introduce students to new areas, and provide them with tools for research. Further research work will be conducted primarily in groups of four to five undergraduate students, led by the organizers and several instructors selected among young talented Ph.D. students working in the relevant areas. An important part of REU activities will take place in a computer laboratory, where students will be working on numerical experiments, making and testing conjectures, and developing new algorithms.