PRiME (Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience)

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PRiME Staff

Program Directors

	Edray Herber Goins is a Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. He has led many research groups for summer research programs which have primarily focused on underrepresented minorities, such as SUMSRI at Miami University (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008), MSRI-UP (2010, 2020), and PRiME at both Purdue University and Pomona College (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022). He has mentored over 100 underrepresented minority undergraduates in his 20 years working with REUs.
	Alexander J. Barrios is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of St. Thomas. He has lead several undergraduate research groups: In Summer 2020 he lead a research group in the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program (MSRI-UP); and in Summers 2019, 2021, and 2022, he lead research groups as part of the Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME). His 2019 summer research group won the MAA MathFest award for the best undergraduate number theory presentation, and his 2022 summer research group won the MAA MathFest award for the best poster presentation.
	Brian Bishop acts as the Program Coordinator. He graduated from Pomona College in 2023 as a double major in Media Studies and Mathematics. He participated in PRiME in 2019. The Program Coordinator will (1) be responsible for promotion and publicity of the program, including MathPrograms.org, (2) arrange the biannual Advisory Board meetings, (3) coordinate travel arrangements to Claremont for students and staff, (4) sign the housing contract with the dormitories and bungalows at Pomona College, (5) reserve offices and classrooms in Seaver East at Pomona College, (6) assist with logins for RCR Training, (7) reserve Pomona Sagecoach for weekend field trips, (8) coordinate conference registration and travel arrangements to MAA MathFest, (9) administer pre-program and exit surveys, and (10) provide general administrative support during the program.

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board provides oversight of the program. It is responsible for the following:

to review the demographics of PRiME participants as well as review the efficacy of the recruitment and selection processes;
to review and evaluate the pre-program surveys, reflection essays, exit surveys, and summaries of discussions from the focus groups;
to review the research conducted by the groups to gauge the intellectual merit of the projects;
to discuss invitations for faculty and research topics for future programs; and
to track program alumni to gauge the success of graduate school acceptances and tenure-track employment.

The Advisory Board will have two virtual meetings each year: one in the Spring (in March after students have been chosen) and another in the Fall (in September after the exit surveys return). The Board members serve for two years.

	Wilfrid Gangbo is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He recently served as the Director of Graduate Studies at UCLA, and is a Fellow of the AMS.
	Kiran Kedlaya is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at San Diego. He directs the Arizona Winter School (AWS), and is a Fellow of the AMS.
	Fabio Milner is Professor of Mathematics at Arizona State University. He recently was the director of the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI).
	Rachel Pries is a Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University. She is an Algebraic Geometer/Number Theorist, and is a Fellow of the AMS.
	Jeremy Rouse is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Wake Forest University. He was the PI for Wake/Davidson Experience In Number Theory Research (DMS-1461189).

Research Leaders

	Alex Barrios is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of St. Thomas. In 2022, he led a research group with a project titled Good Elliptic Curves. In 2023, he will lead a research group with a project titled Elliptic Curves with a Non-Trivial Isogeny.titles
	Renee Bell is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Lehman College, City University of New York. In 2022, she led a research group with a project titled Galois Groups of Fields Generated by Points of Curves. (She was an Hans Rademacher Instructor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania while participating in PRiME 2022).
	Cory Colbert is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Washington and Lee University. In 2022, he led a research group with a project titled Automorphism Groups of Partially Ordered Sets.
	Rachel Davis is a fellow in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 2021, she led a research group with a project titled Monodromy of Compositions of Toroidal Belyi Maps.
	Luis David Garcia Puente is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Colorado College. In 2023, he will lead a research group with a project titled Algebraic Geometry of Phylogenetic Networks.
	Edray Herber Goins is Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. In 2022, he led a research group with a project titled Monodromy Groups of Belyi Lattes Maps. In 2023, he will lead a research group with a project titled Adinkras as Origami.
	Haydee Lindo is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. In 2023, she will lead a research group with a project titled Trace Ideals over Semigroup Rings.
	Bianca Thompson is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Westminster College. In 2022, she led a research group with a project titled Valuation Trees and Primitive Prime Divisors.
	Lori D. Watson, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College. In 2023, she will lead a research group with a project titled Abelian Extensions Arising from Torsion Points of Elliptic Curves.