The Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium (NUMS) is regional mathematics conference providing a venue for undergraduate students in the Pacific Northwest to present mathematical research and projects, including REUs, senior projects, COMAP solutions, etc.

The Oregon State University (OSU) Math Club, the Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) Oregon Beta Chapter, the OSU student chapters of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) organized the first annual NUMS meeting at OSU in Corvallis on Saturday, May 9, 2009. There were 33 attendees including 17 speakers filling two parallel sessions. The local venue served as an effective training opportunity for the national stage; several of the first NUMS participants went on to present at MathFest 2009 in Portland. In fact, two of the six 2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Presentation Prize winners were NUMS participants! Subsequent NUMS… more

The 13th annual NUMS meeting will be held, in conjuction with PiMUC, online as a virtual meeting using Zoom on April 10th, 2021! The registration site can be found at the PiMUC home page. REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Speakers: Friday, March 26; Participants: Wednesday, April 7. There is no registration fee for this conference. However, all participants, whether planning to present or not, need to register.

Update 4/10/2021: Presentation Prizes awarded

• First Prize: Ethan Jensen, George Fox University, "Existence and Shape of Numerical Oscillations in Solving Parabolic PDEs"
• Second Prize: Josie O'Harrow, Oregon State University, "More Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems"
• Third Prize: Amanda Mallott, Gonzaga University, "Total Roman Domination of Kneser Graphs"

The 12th annual NUMS meeting will be held, in conjuction with PiMUC, online as a virtual meeting using Zoom on April 18th, 2020! The registration site can be found at the PiMUC home page. As many campuses are closed, it is likely that you will have to connect to the meeting individually. If you do not have a laptop or other device that can connect to a virtual meeting, reach out to your department soon to ask for advice. There will be practice session appointments available in the days before the meeting.

Update 4/18/2020: Presentation Prizes awarded

• First Prize: KATHRYN DAVIDSON, University of Washington Tacoma, "Improving Meshing Algorithms for Neuronal Reconstructions in Pursuit of Quantitative Spinule Analysis"
• Second Prize: BROOKE MATHEWS & ISAAC ORTEGA, Seattle University, "Knotris: A New Game"
• Third Prize: AMY JENSON, University of Alaska Southeast, "Model of Yellow Fever Among Aedes Agypti… more

The 11th annual NUMS was held at Willamette University, Oct 2018. See more details at the archived conference website: https://web.archive.org/web/20190604081529/http://willamette.edu/cla/ma…

The 10th annual NUMS was held at WWU, Oct 2017. See more details at the conference website: https://cse.wwu.edu/nums