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When: July 27-31, 2026, 9am-3pm Where: Boyd Research and Education Center (200 D.W. Brooks Drive) Registration: TBA Registration fee: $22 (includes a t-shirt)
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About Topics Schedule MathCamp 2024
Higher Math for high school students.
At MathCamp, UGA faculty co-ordinators each work with a graduate student mentor and undergraduate helper guiding a group of roughly 5 high school students on exploratory projects in a range of topics. We plan to have 5 groups, for a total of 25 students. Registration will be on a first come first served basis.
Activities are aimed at high school students entering grades 9-12. However some younger students have also done quite well with the material in the past. With this in mind, there are no formal grade level requirements. The most important prerequisite is an interest in learning new things and curiosity about mathematics!
Snacks and Lunch: Snacks will be provides. Participants have the option of either bringing their own packed lunch (there is a refrigerator available), or have lunch at Bolton Dining Commons, for the price of $12.20.
Organizers: The UGA MathCamp is administered by Akram Alishahi and Jimmy Dillies. If you have any questions, you can reach out to us at:
akram.alishahi@uga.edu
Jimmy.Dillies@uga.edu
How: MathCamp is funded by NSF CAREER grant DMS-2238103.
Topics
Project 1: How to think about all possible configurations of a multi-legged, multi-jointed robot (Faculty co-ordinator: David Gay, Graduate student mentor: TBD)
Description: Said in a slightly less exciting way, a "linkage" is collection of rigid bars and hinges, with some points fixed in place and some points free to move. This is the "multi-legged, multi-jointed robot". The set of all possible configurations of a linkage is often a very interesting space, and this project will try to describe these spaces for some given linkages and also try to find linkages whose configuration spaces are certain given spaces. As a simple example, if there is one bar free to move around one joint, which is fixed in place on a plane, the space of all possible configurations is a circle; the bar can spin freely around the fixed joint. What if at the end of that bar is another joint and another bar? What about lots of bars and lots of joint? We will draw lots of pictures, and maybe even build something!