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Summer Symposium 2023 (videos)

  • CMUSR (May 30th – Aug 4th)
  • CSUREMM (May 30th – Aug 4th)
    • Organizers
      • Ivan Corwin
      • George Dragomir
    • Graduate mentors:
      • Catherine (Casey) Ivanovich (Earth and Environmental Sciences, PhD Candidate)
      • Tao Long (Computer Science, PhD Student)
      • Hanyang Zhao (IEOR, PhD Student)
      • Xintong Zhou (Statistics, MA Student)
    • Undergraduate Projects & Teams
      • From Climate Talk to Stock Shock: Modeling Policy Headline Sentiment and Index Fund Performance
        • Aditya Jain
        • Yun-Tzu Lin
        • Valerie Rogel
      • Sector-specific forecasting of volatility from Twitter sentiment
        • Shiruo Liang
        • Joe Wee Sham
        • Yiming Song
      • INSIGHT: Intelligent Negotiation Strategy for Information Games with Hidden Tactics
        • Maksym Bondarenko
        • Justin Haddad
        • Phebe Lew
      • A Noise Level Aware Poisson Denoising Algorithm for Fluorescence Microscopy Data Using SwinConv U-Net
        • Judah Engel
        • Milena Harned
        • Maahi Patel
      • Refining gender bias algorithms using sentiment analysis
        • Yvon Lu
        • Jordan Shiff
        • Sophia Tu
      • Modeling The Dual-Sourcing Inventory Problem – A Reinforcement Learning Approach
        • Jingtao Li
        • Jingwen Zhang
        • Yihan Shen
  • CMUSRP (May 21 – June 17 in Paris, France)
    • Organizer
      • George Dragomir
    • Project: Geometry and Dynamics of Moduli Spaces
    • Columbia Participants
      • Alex Scheffelin – Graduate Student Mentor
      • Undergraduate students:
        • Aaron Cohen
        • Tuan Dolmen
        • Remy Kaldawy
        • Zachary Lihn

2022 Programs

  • CMUSR (May 31st – Aug 5th)
  • CSUREMM (May 31st – Aug 5th)
    • Organizers
      • Ivan Corwin
      • George Dragomir
    • Graduate Mentors
      • Enlin Qian (BME)
      • Joe Suk (STATS)
      • Xiaoxiao Sun (MBE)
      • Han Yong Wunrow (APAM)
    • Undergraduate Teams & Projects
      • Modeling the Dynamics of Language Shift in Bilingual Communities
        • Melody Harwood
        • Yoojin Lee
        • Pengfei (Ashley) Ren
      • Tuberculosis transmission in United States correctional facilities pre- and post-2020
        • Wynna Huang
        • Sadie Klaus
        • Lillian Rountree
      • Data-Driven News-vendor
        • Makoto Powers
        • Ethan Turok
        • Haoran Yuan
      • The Impact of Climate Change Induced Natural Disasters on Education and Child Marriage Rates
        • Daniela Perez
        • Krystal Yimeng Sun
        • Shivani Tripathi
      • Extending the Sparse Projections Fine-mapping Model by Learning Genomic Annotation Weights
        • Jack Henry Cleeve
        • Ekene Ezeunala
        • Gilead Turok
      • Determining an Optimal Route for a Futuristic Probe to Visit Earth-like Exoplanets
        • Samuel Farrell
        • Longling (San) Winter
        • Robert Young
      • Using Stochastic Processes to Characterize the Metastatic Progression of Breast Cancer
        • Brianna Han
        • Carlos Mendonca
        • Andrada (Mara) Nicolae
        • Jane Zhang
  • CMUSRP (June 6th – July 15th in Paris, France)
    • Organizer
      • George Dragomir
    • Project: Asymptotic Stabilities in Algebra and Geometry
      • Quentin Guignard – Faculty (Université Paris Cité)
      • David Marcil – Graduate Student (Columbia)
    • Undergraduate Participants (Columbia)
      • David Chen
      • Behshad Jahan Pour
      • Remy Maurice Kaldawy
      • Zheheng Xiao

2021 Projects

  • Special projects (CSUREMM)
    • Organizers
      • Ivan Corwin
      • George Dragomir
    • Graduate Mentors
      • Alejandra Quintos Lima (Stats)
      • Chanyang (Judah) Ryoo (APAM)
      • Maithreya Sitaraman (Math)
      • Joseph Suk (Stats)
    • Teams
      • Diana Gregoire
        Jonathan Socoy
        Ahkeel Timothy
      • Dennis Cruz
        Andrew Jin
        Thiago Otto
      • Maria Stuebner
        Silvia Toderas
        Yiqi Wang
      • Jackman Liu
        Ribhav Talwar
        Xinyu (Rain) Wei
      • Ketan Jog
        Oliver Li
        Andrew Magid
      • Anthony Ozerov
        Steven DiSilvio
        Yu (Anna) Luo
  • Independent projects
    • Anda Tenie (Francesco Lin)

 

2020 Projects

  • Independent Projects
    • Ben Goldwin and Yuze Zhang (Woodbury)

2019 Projects

  • Toric Varieties (Paris, France)
    • Michael Harris – Faculty Organizer
    • Huayi Chen – Faculty
    • Raymond Cheng – Grad Student
      Benjamin Church
      Myeonhu Kim
      Hobart Pao
      Anda Tenie
      Yunsong Wei
  • Independent Projects
    • Yujin Kim (Corwin)
    • Lizka Vaintrob (Hayden, Daemi)

2018 Projects

  • Enumerative geometry and arithmetic
    • Jo Nelson – Faculty
    • Ila Varma – Faculty
      (Alex) Zhongyi Zhang – Grad Student
      Teresa Brown
      Quang Dao
      Mariya Delyakova
      Lucas Furtado
      Evan Wickenden
      Myeonhu Kim
  • Curves on surfaces over finite fields
    • Daniel Litt – Faculty
    • Alex Perry – Faculty
      Raymond Cheng – Grad Student
      Ben Church
      Chunying Huangdai
      Matthew Lerner-Brecher
      Navtej Singh
      Ming Jing

2017 Projects

**Final Presentation videos**

  • Representation theory in graph theory
    • David Hansen – Faculty
    • Daniel Litt – Faculty
      Raymond Cheng – Grad Student
      Renata Piccioto – Grad Student
      Alejandro Buendia
      Joseph Freund
      Yihao Huang
      Matthew Malone
      Bharatha Rankothge
      Jia Wan
      Yi Wang
      Junho Won
  • Explicit central elements of quantized Lie algebras
    • Jeffrey Kuan – Faculty
      Darren Gooden – Grad Student
      Ravi Campbell
      Zachary Davis
      Max Krawczyk
      Keke Zhang
  • Constructions and obstructions of symplectic embeddings
    • Jo Nelson – Faculty
      Saraswathi Venkatesh – Grad Student
      Theodore Coyne
      Sara Edelman-Munoz
      Chunying Huangdai
      Greyson Potter
  • Special projects
    • David Hansen – Faculty
    • Daniel Litt – Faculty
      Raymond Cheng – Grad Student
      Renata Piccioto – Grad Student
      Adam Block
      Micah Gay
      Helena Rios

2016 Projects

**Final presentation videos**

  • Constructions and Obstructions of Symplectic Embedding
    • Jo Nelson – Faculty
      Robert Castellano- Grad student
      Katherine Christianson
      Irit Huq-Kuruvilla
      Greyson Potter
      Roxane Sayde
      Elizabeth Yoo
  • Interacting particle systems and representations of quantized Lie Algebra
    • Jeffrey Kuan – Faculty
      Darren Gooden- Grad student
      Nguyen Dung
      Noah Miller
      Junho Won
      Keke Zhang
  • What does a random variety look like?
    • Daniel Halpern-Leistner – Faculty
    • Daniel Litt – Faculty
      Dan Gulotta- Grad student
      Carl Lian- Grad student
      Louisa Carpenter-Winch
      Kevin Choi
      Lilian Cohen
      Theodore Coyne
      Seth Davis
      Willie Dong
      Michael Tong
      Jason Vaccaro
  • Special project on Algebraic Stacks
    • Dave Hansen – Faculty
      Linus Hamann

 

2015 Projects

**Final presentation videos**

  • Spectral Graph Theory, Markov Chains, and the PageRank Algorithm
    • Alexander Drewitz – Faculty
    • Paul Siegel – Faculty
      Darren Gooden – Grad student
      Andrea Heyman – Grad student
      Nguyen Chi Dung
      Yujia Shi
      Daniel Fan Yang
      Greyson Katzel Potter
      Hardik Devang Shah
      Roxane Sayde
      Louisa Carpenter-Winch
      Jun Ho Yoon
  • Arithmetic Properties of Hurwitz Numbers
    • David Hansen – Faculty
      Pak-Hin Lee – Grad student
      Srikar Varadaraj
      Ashley Xin Xu
      David-Linus Hamann
      Kevin Choi
  • Obstructions to Symplectic Embeddings
    • Jo Nelson – Faculty
      Robert Castellano – Grad student
      Kat Christianson
      Nawaz Sultani
      Irit Huq-Kuruvilla
      Willie Guo Dong

 

2014 Projects

  • Left-orderable groups and knot surgery
    **End of project video**

    • Jennifer Hom – Faculty
      Mike Wong – Grad Student
      Katherine Christianson
      Justin Goluboff
      David Hamann
      Srikar Varadaraj
  • Geometry of Coxeter Groups
    **End of project video**

    • Jason Behrstock – Faculty (CUNY)
      Timothy Susse – Grad Student (CUNY)
      Daniel Gulotta – Grad Student
      Sarba Raj Bartaula
      Lena Min Ji
      Robert Lyman
      Samir Mathrani
      Ha-Young Shin
  • Reeb Dynamics of Lens Spaces
    **End of project video**

    • Jo Nelson – Faculty
      Robert Castellano – Grad Student
      Leonardo Abbrescia
      Willie Dong
      Irit Huq-Kuruvilla
      Nawaz Sultani
  • Spectral Graph Theory and the PageRank Algorithm
    **End of project video**

    • Paul Siegel – Faculty
      Thomas Nyberg – Grad Student
      Riaz Helfer
      Anish King
      Samuel Nicoll
      Robert Shorb

  

2013 Program

**Final presentation videos**

  • Heegaard Floer Homology and the Fundamental Group
    • Jennifer Hom – Faculty
      Kristen Hendricks – Graduate Student
      Fabian Doria-Medina
      Michael Jackson
      Joaquin Ruales
      Hadas Zeilberger
  • Random Models on Planar Graphs
    • Clement Hongler – Faculty
      Krzysztof Putyra – Graduate Student
      Adrein Brochard
      Woo Chang Chung
      Reza Gheissari
      Sung Chul Park
  • Knot Contact Homology
    • Adam Knapp – Faculty
      Jingyu Zhao – Graduate Student
      Romin Abdolahzadi
      Justin Goluboff
      Nilay Kumar
      Oren Weiss
      Venkata Yamajala
  • Elliptic Curves and Pairing Based Cryptography
    • Marc Masdeu – Faculty
    • Michael Woodbury – Faculty
      Paul Lewis – Graduate Student
      Joseph Eddy
      Aditi Nair
      Jenne O’Brien
      Micah Smith
      Yingtian Yang
      John Yu

  

2012 Program

  • Applications of knot Floer homology to the concordance group
    • Jennifer Hom – Faculty
    • Peter Horn – Faculty
      Kristen Hendricks – Graduate Student
      Andrew Fanoe – Graduate Student
      Michael Gartner
      James Groccia
      Christian Moscardi
      Siran Li
      Josh Tobin
  • Algebraic geometry over finite fields and rational curves
    • Johan de Jong – Faculty
      Andrew Kiluk – Graduate Student
      Tabes Bridges
      Rankeya Datta
      Joseph Eddy
      Michael Newman
      John Yu
  • Bordered Floer homology and knot complements
    • Adam Knapp – Faculty
      Corrin Clarkson – Graduate Student
      Andrew Fanoe – Graduate Student
      Won Gyu Choi
      Samson Koelle
      Jenne O’Brien
      Venkata Yamajala
      Yifei Zhao
  • Appollonian Circle Packings (CU/NYU/CUNY RTG)
    • Timothy Heath – Graduate Student
      Romin Abdolahzadi
      Jonathan Goetz
      Ke Huang

  

2011 Program

  • Knot Floer Homology: Properties and Computations
    • Jennifer Hom – Faculty
    • Corrin Clarkson – Graduate Student
      Kristen Hendricks – Graduate Student
      Vivian Bailey
      Stephen Hancock
      Michael Newman
      Chun Ye
  • Computations of Non-commutative Knot Invariants
    • Shea Vela-Vick – Faculty
      Peter Horn – Faculty
      Ina Petkova – Graduate Student
      Jonathan Hanselman – Graduate Student
      Rankeya Datta
      Stephen Fitz
      Eden Prywes
      John Schultz
      Joshua Tobin
      Kitty Yang
  • Quantum Computing with Knots
    • Adam Knapp – Faculty
      Meagan Thompson – Graduate Student
      Sea Moon Cho
      Shazia Dharssi
      James Diotte
      Sung Chul Park
      Timothy Sun
  • Rigidity of Graphs in Space
    • Dylan Thurston – Faculty
      Joe Stern – Graduate Student
      Samuel Coolidge
      Jeffrey Kandel
      Arjun Mudan
      Monica Puri
  • RTG Undergraduate Research Projects

  

2010 Program

  • Rigidity of Graphs
    • Dylan Thurston – Faculty
      Andrew Fanoe – Graduate Student
      Fatima Ahmed
      Sherin George
      Matthew Jacobs
      Sung Chul Park
      Timothy Sun
      Chun Ye
  • Abelianized Characteristic Algebras of Legendrian Knots
    • Shea Vela-Vick – Faculty
      Rumen Zarev – Graduate Student
      Atanas Atanasov
      Jeffrey Irwin
      Daniel Kotzen
      Christopher Lopez
      Eliot Wycoff
  • Categorification of Quantum Groups and Geometry
    • Aaron Lauda – Faculty
      Sabin Cautis – Faculty
      Krzysztof Putyra – Graduate Student
      You Qi – Graduate Student
      Alexander Christian Moll
      Alex Blumenthal
      Alex Perry
      Andrew Zhang
      Axel Saenz
      Benjamin Albert
      James McIvor
      Jin Woo Jang
      Max Ehrman
      Rachel Vishnepolsky
      Sea Moon Cho
  • Eisentein Series and Zeta Functions
    • Yakov Kerzhner – Faculty
      Amella Farid
      Moyang Li

  

2009 Program

  • Knots, triple branched covers, and Heegaard Floer Homology
    • Adam Knapp – Faculty
      Rumen Zarev – Graduate Student
      Esther Adzhiashvili
      Axel Saenz-Rodriguez
      Claire Zukowski
  • Dehn twists and symplectic fixed points
    • Timothy Perutz – Faculty
      Robert Lipshitz – Faculty
      Thomas Peters – Graduate Student
      Jonathan Bloom – Graduate Student
      Alexandru Georgescu
      Jin Woo Jang
      Rachel Vishnepolsky
      Xuran Wang
  • Rigidity of graphs
    • Dylan Thurston – Faculty
      Joseph Ross – Graduate Student
      Ina Petkova – Graduate Student
      Samuel Frank
      Jiayang Jiang
  • Hyperbolic geometry
    • Maksim Lipyanskiy – Faculty
      Eric Potash
      Kyler Siegel
      Andrew Zhang
  • Sphere packing in odd dimensional hyperbolic space
    • Yakov Kerzhner – Faculty
      Alon Levy – Graduate Student
      Alex Blumenthal
      Christopher Lopez
      Alexander Moll
      Christopher Scaduto
      Warren Tai
  • Categorifying quantum groups
    • Aaron Lauda – Faculty
      Alex Ellis – Graduate Student
      Qi You – Graduate Student
      Corey Bregman
      Robert Legg
      James McIvor
      Delia Wang

  

2008 Program

  • Tower of Hanoi
    • Jason Behrstock – Faculty
      Eli Grigsby – Faculty
      Harold Sultan – Graduate Student
      Amy Cen
      So Eun Park
      Ian Spafford
      Michael Rand
      Andrew Zhang
    • So Eun Park posted a paper to the arxiv. It is available at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.1179v1
  • TQFT
    • Aaron Lauda – Faculty
      Joelle Brichard – Graduate Student
      Ben Elias – Graduate Student
      Giwan Kim
      Andrew Kontaxis
      David Xia
  • Floer Homology
    • Adam Knapp – Faculty
      Ina Petkova – Graduate Student
      Roman Zarev – Graduate Student
      Yael Degany
      James Oyuang
      Xuran Wang
  • Hyperbolic Geometry
    • Max Lipyanskiy – Faculty
      Thomas Peters – Graduate Student
      Cory Bergman
      Taekgyu Lee
      Eric Potash
      Rachel Vishnepolsky
  • Polyhedral cones and their intersections with lattices
    • Michael Thaddeus – Faculty
      Alex Perry
      Christopher Lopez
      Atanas Atanasov

  

2007 Program

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