{"id":2205,"date":"2024-07-19T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2024-07-19T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T16:20:45","slug":"undergraduate-research-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/undergraduate-research-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Research Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Last summer our undergraduate student, Cam Milliken, was awarded a prestigious Undergraduate Research Bursary by the London Mathematical Society  to work with Dr Bas Lemmens and his PhD student Kieran Power on horofunction compactifications of metric spaces. A horofunction compactification is a way to add a boundary at infinity to a space. It allows one to analyse the geometry of the space when one wanders off to infinity. The results of the project were written up in a research paper that was accepted for publication by the journal Involve. This is a well-known journal that publishes high quality research in mathematics with significant input from undergraduate students.\n<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/files\/2024\/07\/involve.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2206\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/files\/2024\/07\/involve.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/undergraduate-research-success\/&amp;t=Undergraduate Research Success' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Undergraduate Research Success%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/undergraduate-research-success\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/undergraduate-research-success\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/undergraduate-research-success\/&amp;title=Undergraduate Research Success' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/undergraduate-research-success\/&amp;title=Undergraduate Research Success' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer our undergraduate student, Cam Milliken, was awarded a prestigious Undergraduate Research Bursary by the London Mathematical Society to work with Dr Bas Lemmens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/undergraduate-research-success\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145912],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}