Students pursue a significant problem independently, under the guidance of a faculty member.
Results are submitted in a written paper and presented orally for the department. The most significant feature of the work of mathematics is problem-solving. For the senior seminar, students concentrate on one problem in an independent manner over a long period of time. The problem may have originated in one of the student's upper-division courses or may be a topic in which the student is otherwise interested. Each student will choose a faculty mentor for their senior seminar research, usually choosing to work with the professor with whom the selected topic was first entertained, though flexibility is also appropriate.