REU Program Schedule and Activities for Summer 2025              (June  9-August 15, 2025) (tentatively, will be updated once activities are added)
Week	Day	Activity
1	Monday June 9: 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)    Tuesday  June 10:  Crash Course with Drs. Lu & Wang Time Topics Mentor Location 9:00am--12:00pm graph pattern detection; Stable matching problem Professor Lu   HS 143   1:30pm-4:30pm Facial Emotion Recognition Professor Wang     Wednesday June 11:  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
	June 12, Thursday	Students project proposal due
	June 13, Friday	Project finalized
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	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	June 18, Wednesday	Project proposal presentation at 9am in HS 143;
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
	July 9, Wednesday	Students project progress due and presentation at 9am in HS 143
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	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	TBA	NASA Wallops trip
7	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
8	July 30, Wednesday	Students project progress due and presentation at 9am in HS 143
	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
9	TBA	UMCP visit and graduate school application and academic career information session
	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
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	Monday-Tuesday,	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	Aug 13, Wednesday	REU final research project presentation @9am; Exit Interviews with Dr. Barbara Wainwright and program post-test survey at 1pm
	Aug 14, Thursday	Final PPTs and poster due; Project final report draft due
	Aug 15, Friday	Final reports due  (including source codes and all data etc.) at myClasses@SU at 5pm