New York City Alliance for Minority Participation in Science, Engineering and Mathematics (NYC AMP)
Contact Person: Dr. Maria Psarelli, Director, Room: CP 112, Phone: (718) 289-5375, Email maria.psarelli@bcc.cuny.edu
Background
The NYC AMP is a
federally funded minority research and training program sponsored by a
grant from the
National Science Foundation in collaboration with CUNY. Its goal is
to encourage the participation of minority students in scientific,
engineering and mathematical disciplines (SEM). The AMP at BCC provides
instructional and tutorial support for introductory SEM courses.
Moreover, it also provides funding for supervised research by
undergraduate students.
Along with other CUNY colleges, BCC enthusiastically participates in
the AMP program. Our program has grown during the last years, and we
strongly encourage students to participate, taking advantage of this
unique opportunity to elevate their academic achievement in science,
engineering and mathematics.
The program is structured in research units where faculty members in
the above mentioned disciplines supervise undergraduate research
projects with the participation of selected students.
List of Current AMP Projects
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Project:
“Visualizing Essential Singularities for Complex Ordinary Differential Equations”,
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 |
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Project:
“Evolutionary Game Theory”,
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 |
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Project:
“Nondegenerate linear forms”,
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 |
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Project:
“Binary Linear Codes and Decoding by Message-Passing”,
Spring 2014-Fall 2014 |
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Project:
“Navigating in a Dynamically Changing Closed Environment”,
Spring 2014- Fall 2014 |
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Project:
“Cops and Robbers on Graphs”,
Summer 2013 |
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Project:
“(Coming)”,
Fall 2013-Spring 2014 |
Recent AMP Projects
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Project:
“The
Sum of Four Squares Theorem and the Hurwitz Integers”,
2011-12 |
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Project:
“The
Sum of Four Squares Theorem and Minkowski's Geometry of Numbers”,
2011-12 |
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Project:
“Kepler's
Laws”,
2011-12 |
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Project:
“Multidimensional
risk theory and its duality”,
2012 |
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Project:
“Elliptic
Curves Over Finite Fields”,
2012 |
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Project:
“Introductory
Insights into Knot Theory and Its Applications”,
2012 |
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Project: “The
arithmetic of a sequence of polynomials associated with the
Fibonacci sequence”,
2010-11 Mentor: Dr. Rony Gouraige, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science Student: Freddy Gomez. Major: Computer Science |
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Project: “Introduction
to Point-Set Topology using Moore’s method”,
2010-11 |
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Project: “Modern
Techniques in Solving Linear Differential Equations”,
2010-11 |
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Project: “The
Irrationality of Zeta(2)”,
2010-11 |
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Project: “Cramer’s
Rule in Boolean Algebra”,
2009-10 |
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Project: “The
dynamics of the sums of cubes of the digits of a natural number”,
2009-10 |
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Project: “Continued
fractions and the Frobenius problem”,
2009-10 |
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Project: “Icosahedron”,
2009-10 |
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Project: "Lissajous knots
", 2008-09 |
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Project: "Jones polynomial and classical invariants of knots
", 2008-09 |
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Project: "Group Characters and the Kesava Menon Identity",
2008-09 |
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Project: "Sums of Squares of Digits,"
2008-09 |
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Project: "Numerical Exploration of Elliptic Curves with
Complex Multiplication," 2008-09 |
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Project: ``Classification of Tricolorable Knots and
Links, II", 2007-08 |
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Project: ``Tricolorable Links and Knot Polynomials",
2007-08 |
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Project: ``The Generalized Division Algorithm",
2007-08 |
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Project: ``Phytoremediation of Aluminum by American and
International Rice Oryza Sativa Cultivars in vitro," 2007-08 |
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Project: ``Properties of polymer environmentally friendly
polymer membranes," 2007-08 |
Further AMP Projects, 2002-2007
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Project: "Arithmetic Eigenvalue Problems,"
2006-07 |
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Project: "Ideal
Class Group of an Imaginary Quadratic Number Field," 2006-07 |
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Project: "The
Number of Points on an Elliptic Curve Modulo p," 2006-07 |
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Project: "Classification
of Tricolarable Knots and Links," 2006-07 |
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Project: "Winning Strategies for a Graph
Deletion Game," 2006-07 |
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Project: "An Exploration of Software
Methods of Handwriting Recognition," 2006-07 |
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Project: "Matrix
Rings of the form R= M_2 (Z/p^n Z), p a rational prime, n a
natural number," Summer 2006 |
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Project: "Integral
Binary Quadratic Forms", Summer 2006 |
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Project: "Quadratic
Number Fields and their Subrings of Algebraic Integers",
Summer 2006 |
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Project: "Pell's
Equation; Use of Continued Fractions for Integral Solutions to Pell's
Equatio," Summer 2006 |
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Project: "Solving a 2 by 2 System
of Linear Boolean Equations by Elimination," 2005-06 |
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Project: "Characteristics of
Polymer Blends," 2005-06 |
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Project: "Characterization of
Cobomax, an amino-acid-vitamin B12 non-Covalent Complex," 2005-06 |
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Project: "Statistical Mechanics
and Topology Applied to Biopolymers," 2004-05 |
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Project: "The Impact of
Psychosocial Measures on Depression and Anxiety Among Ethnically
Diverse Students," 2004-05 |
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Project: "Constructing Large
Planar Networks," 2004-05 |
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Project: "Properties of
Symplectomorphisms", 2003-04 |
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Project: "Legendre Curves in R3",
2003-04 |
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Project: "Flows of Hamiltonian
Vector Fields", 2003-04 |
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Project: "Stirling, Bell and
Bernoulli Numbers", 2003-04 |
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Project: "Visualizing the Sweep
Line Algorithm for Computing the Voronoi Diagram", 2003-04 |
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Project: "Cellular Automata and
the Game of Life", 2003-04 |
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Project: "Turing Machines and
their Applications towards Cellular Automata", 2003-04 |
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Project: "Computational Studies
of the Natural Medicinal", 2004 |
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Project: "Developing a New
Technique for Measuring Interfacial Tension for Polymers", 2004 |
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Project: "Studies on Metal
Chelates of Vitamin B6 Model Compounds", 2003-04 |
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Project: "The Development of an
Ion Chromatographic Method to Quantitate Low levels of Anionic
Pollutants in Cloud Water and Snow Samples", 2003-04 |
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Project: "Asymptotic and
Numerical Study of the Location of Zeroes of a Special Transcendental
Equation", 2002-03 |
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Project: "Cellular Automata and
the Game of Life", 2003 |
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Project: "Deviation and
Optimization of Non-Smooth Functions", 2002-03 |
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Project: "The Fibonacci Numbers
Modulo p, Quadratic Reciprocity and Searching for Large Primes",
2002-03 |
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Project: "Bioinformatics and
Physical Properties of Biopolymers", 2002-03 |
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Project: "Extraterrestrial
Impacts and Mass Extinctions", 2002-03 |
Highlights
Aliou Diop, a Bronx Commmunity College alumnus
of
the 2001 class, began his undergraduate research with the AMP program
in Spring 2000 under the mentorship of Dr. Andrew McInerney of the
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science. A year later, he was among
the first eight CUNY students and the first BCC student to be awarded
the AMP Carver Scholarship. In this capacity, he presented his work in
Science Fairs at both BCC and CUNY and in several undergraduate
research conferences around the country. In Fall 2002, while a junior
at Lehman College, he was among a handful of talented undergraduates
recruited from throughout the US to participate in the MASS
(Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters) Program at Penn State
University. He completed his B.S. in Mathematics at Lehman College in
the Spring of 2003 and is currently pursuing his Ph.D degree in
Mathematics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York!!!
The AMP and the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science at BCC is
proud of accomplishments of students like Aliou Diop and is looking
forward to scout for a new generation of talented students in sciences
and mathematics.
