Results of REU Research 2020

REU Mini-Conference, July 20-21, 2020
Schedule and Abstracts

Participants, Presentations, and Reports

• Probability and algebra Mentors: Prof. Jeffrey Kuan; Aleksandra Sobieska and Zhengye Zhou
  • Andrew Park (Wheaton College):Parallel SSEP and a Casimir Element of so_2n (Part 1), slides, report(joint with Mark Landry)
  • Mark Landry (Michigan State): Parallel SSEP and a Casimir Element of so_2n (Part 2), slides
  • Andrew Lin (MIT): A Central Element of the Quantum Group U_q(so_2n), slides, report
• Algebraic Methods in Mathematical Biology Mentors: Prof. Anne Shiu; Aleksandra Sobieska and Alex Ruys de Perez
  • Patrick Chan (Loyola University Chicago): Degenerate and non-degenerate embedding dimensions of neural codes, slides, report
  • Joseph Lent (Penn State): Algebraic signatures for a non-local obstruction and sunflowers, slides, report
  • Clare Spinner (University of Portland): Characterizing Codes with Three Maximal Codewords, slides, report
  • Katherine Johnston (Lafayette College): Identifiability of Linear Compartment Models: The effects of model operations, slides, report
• Number Theory Mentors: Prof. Matt Young and Prof. Riad Masri; Agniva Dasgupta
  • Eric Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology ): Bounds for Coefficients of the f(q) Mock Theta Function and Applications for Partition Ranks (part 1), slides, report (joint with Kevin Gomez)
  • Kevin Gomez (Vanderbilt University): Bounds for Coefficients of the f(q) Mock Theta Function and Applications for Partition Ranks (part 2), slides
  • Juan Ramirez (University of Houston): Patterns arising in the Kernel of Generalized Dedekind Sums (Part 1), slides, report (joint with Evuilynn Nguyen)
  • Evuilynn Nguyen (Rhodes College): Patterns arising in the Kernel of Generalized Dedekind Sums (Part 2), slides

Group photo (July 20, 2020)