We walked through reading three math papers as a group, selected by Dr. Emily Olson.
We read The Game of Cycles to study a more approachable paper which needed little background knowledge.
For a more challenging read, we looked at RNA, local moves on plane trees, and transpositions on tableaux and A Combinatorial Bijection Between Standard Young Tableaux and Reduced Words of Grassmannian Permutations.
Recommended reading:
Dr. Kent recommends “Getting what You Came for: The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning a Master’s Or a Ph.D.” by Robert L. Peters and and “How to Think Like a Mathematician” by Kevin Houston.
Dr. Bruce Reznick recommends the classic “How to Solve It” by Georg Pólya. Professor Reznick’s tips on research can be found here and here.