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Who are the people behind SUMaC?

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Who are the people behind SUMaC?

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SUMaC was founded in 1995 by Professors Rafe Mazzeo and Ralph Cohen of the Stanford Mathematics Department, and is currently directed by Prof. Mazzeo and Dr. Rick Sommer. Rick was an Assistant Professor in the Stanford Mathematics Department and is currently Managing Director of the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), at Stanford; he designed the Program I course and has been teaching versions of it since the first SUMaC in 1995. The Program II course is designed by Prof. Rafe Mazzeo. The Program II instructor will be announced at a later date. Most of the SUMaC residential counselors and teaching assistants are Stanford mathematics graduate students and undergraduate math majors. SUMaC provides at least a 1-to-4 ratio of staff to students, with most of the teaching assistants serving in the role of live-in counselors. Many of the SUMaC teaching assistants and counselors will be returning from previous years, and some attended SUMaC in high school. The counselors and teaching as