Philip Matchett Wood Advisor: Van H. Vu Research interests: I am interested in additive combinatorics and discrete probability theory. Particular areas of interest include discrete random matrices, structural behavior in sumsets, and using computers to explore problems in discrete mathematics. Contact Information: Department of Mathematics Hill Center-Busch Campus Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 110 Frelinghuysen Rd Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA email: matchett at math dot rutgers dot edu office phone: (732) 445-2390 x8050

• I worked at the Duluth REU as an advisor from 2002-2005 under the direction of Joe Gallian, and during that time maintained the Duluth REU Auxiliary website. A good list of the research produced by the students at the REU can be found on the Bibliography of the Duluth Summer Research Programs.

• In 2006, I attended the Conference on Promoting Undergraduate Research in Mathematics sponsored by the AMS and NSA.

• Publication: Graduate students as mentors in mathematics REUs, with Stephen G. Hartke and Daniel C. Isaksen, in Proceedings of the Conference on Promoting Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, ed. J. A. Gallian, Amer. Math. Soc. (2007) 285-287.

• The mathematics of the Rubik's Cube.

• Origami constructions, and how to trisect an angle by folding paper. Based on the paper by Robert Geretschläger: Euclidean constructions and the geometry of origami. Math. Mag. 68 (1995), no. 5, 357--371.

• The Lucy-Lily Pentagon Game, invented by Richard Evan Schwartz.

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