REU Program Schedule and Activities for Summer 2024              (May  29-August 6, 2024) (tentatively, will be updated once activities are added)
Week	Day	Activity
1	Wednesday May 29: Welcome and Introduction Time Events Location 8:30am-9:00am Welcome breakfast Outside of HPCL (HS 143) 9:00am-9:30am Opening remarks: Henson School Dean - Dr. Michael Scott  Department Chair -Dr. Sophie Wang HPCL (HS 143) 9:30am-10:00am Faculty Mentors/REU students introduction HPCL (HS 143) 10:00am-11:30am Grant office: Vanessa Collins Orientation meeting, grant paper work, Gull card  Gull card office HPCL (HS 143) 12:00pm-1:30pm Joint lunch with all participants Commons 1:30pm-2:00pm Campus and facility tours,  group pictures   2:00pm-3:00pm Computer accounts, lab facility, work log, summer schedule, etc. HPCL (HS 143) 3:00pm-4:00pm Entry program pretest survey HPCL (HS 143) 4:00pm-5:00pm Responsible Conduct of Research Online Training HPCL (HS 143)    Thursday  May 30:  Crash Course with Drs. Lu & Halperin Time Topics Mentor Location 9:00am--12:00pm graph pattern detection; Stable matching problem Professor Lu   HS 143   1:30pm-4:30pm N-tuple graphs Professor Halperin     Friday May 31:  Crash Course with Dr. Jin Time Topics Speaker Location 9:00am-12:00pm Image reconstruction and processing; ML algorithms and Matlab implementation Professor Jin HS 143
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	June 4,  Tuesday	Students project proposal due
	June 5, Wednesday	Project finalized
	June 6, Thursday	Project proposal presentation at 9am in HS 143;
	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
3	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
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	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
5	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	June 27, Thursday	Students project progress due and presentation at 9am in HS 143
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	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
7	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	July 11, Thursday	Students project progress due and presentation @ 9am in HS 143
8	July 18, Thursday	NASA Wallops trip
	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
9	July 22, Monday	UMCP visit and graduate school application and academic career information session
	Tuesday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
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	July 31, Wednesday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	Aug 1, Thursday	REU final research project presentation @9am; Exit Interviews with Dr. Barbara Wainwright and program post-test survey at 1pm
	Aug 2, Friday	Mentor-student meetings to finalize the final project reports
	Aug 5, Monday	Final PPTs and poster due; Project final report draft due
	Aug 6, Tuesday	Final reports due  (including source codes and all data etc.) at myClasses@SU ;