Many participants may not make research breakthroughs, and that's fine. It is completely fine to participate in the program part-time. Such a letter is usually much more important when applying to graduate school or research-related jobs. However, these students can get a strong letter of recommendation from the main mentor. This may seem unfair for students who made significant progress. This includes regular work meetings, but also social meetings (for example, to play games).Īll project participants who were active throughout the program have their name on the paper (sometimes under the pen name Poly Mathews Jr., with the actual names as a footnote). We encourage the participants to have as much interaction as possible.These are usually graduate students, but also postdocs and experienced undergraduates.
In addition to the main mentor, each project includes additional mentors. The final weekend is an online conference where each group presents their work. Towards the end of that week, you rank the projects that you are interested in. The first week is dedicated to learning about the various projects.
For work purposes, we rely on a dedicated wiki server, Discord severs, overleaf, Zoom, and more. The program will run from June 20th to August 14th. However, these problems are still of interest to the research community and the results should be published in a research journal. It focuses on more modest open problems, usually ones that do not require significant background. The Polymath Jr program is an undergraduate version of the polymath project. This involves longstanding open problems and some of the world's leading mathematicians.
The goal of the original polymath project is to solve problems by forming a online collaboration between many mathematicians.