The Ross program is the model on which many young scholars programs are based. It aims to create a body of individuals who have struggled with challenging mathematics and who will go on to rigorous intellectual pursuits. In its 28th year, the program joins college professors, math majors, and graduate students with high school students to investigate challenging and rewarding problems from number theory, group theory, combinatorics, probability, graph theory, infinite sets, fractals, chaos and many other active branches of mathematics. The program combines the talents of UM faculty, advanced graduate students, and high school students on topics such as codes, ciphers and secret messages, the nature of infinity, and knot theory.
Students explore topics in number theory, cryptography, and dynamics.
This is a cooperative program in which the students work together exploring new ideas and sharing in the excitement of finding the simple mathematical ideas that underlie and explain seemingly complex problems. The Directors hope to use additional funds to make the program more accessible to disadvantaged students.