Spring 2024 Projects
ColorTaiko!, led by Prof. Igor Mineyev
Graduate leaders – Manisha Garg, Aziz Bouland, IML scholars – Anvitha Manepalli, Aditya Ved,Aditya Kshirsagar, Enson (Zhenyi) Gai, Kevin Liu, Jeongjae Park
Optimizing capacities: what shape does best when adding a dimension?, led by Carrie Clark and Prof. Richard Laugesen
Graduate leaders – Qiuling Fan, IML scholars – Chris Becraft, Ben Taylor, Haoqi Chen, Yuan Qian
Scattering Diagrams and Broken Lines, led by Prof. James Pascaleff
Graduate leaders – Chengbin Zhu, IML scholars – Joey Zhou, Saibo Xu, Matthew Leonardson, George White
Spatial Models of Evolutionary Dynamics, led by Prof. Daniel Cooney
Graduate leaders – Muhammad Raza
IML scholars – Seokhwan Moon, Chenning Xu, Ahmad Rahman, Edwin Shen, Jirui Liu, Tianyong Yao
Tennessee Traffic, led by Prof. Richard Sowers
Graduate leaders – Karthik Vasu
IML scholars – David (Weidai) He, David Li, Neha Valavala, Weijian Chen
Winter Spaces and the Stabilizer Formalism, led by Roy Araiza
Graduate leaders – Yefei Zhang
IML scholars – Adrian Calinescu, Morgan Anderson, Dheeran Wiggins, Ben Booker, Naro Panjaitan, Dilys Wu
Paintability of Multipartite Graphs, led by Peter Bradshaw
Graduate leaders – Grace McCourt, The Nguyen, Ramon Garcia Alvarez
IML scholars – Amit Krishnaiyer, Atlas Chen, Braden Dean, Tianyue Cao, Arvind Murty, Yat Hei Yung
Predictability and Competitiveness in Sports Leagues, led by Prof. AJ Hildebrand
Graduate leaders – Bingyan Liu
IML scholars – Yiqian Zhang, Yihan Gao, David Xia, Samuel Lam
Developing Inclusive Outreach Materials in Mathematics, led by Prof. Karen Mortensen
Graduate leaders – Ada Stelzer, Grace McCourt
IML scholars – Chen-Wei Chou, Anmol Shah, Jane Pak, Yuri Chen
Quantum Gates for Quantum Noise, led by Prof. Marius Junge
Graduate leaders – Advith Govindarajan
IML scholars – Arjun Aggarwal, Ashmit Dutta, Divij Garg, Minghao Shi, Stevie Ridens
(Linear) Poisson structures and their cohomology, led by Florian Zieser
Graduate leaders – Wonwoo Kang
IML scholars – Xianhao An, Xinyu Wang, Uyen Nguyen, Gabe Lewis, Dmitriy Shvydkoy, Luke Bielawski
Fall 2023 Projects
- Linear Poisson structures in dimension 4, led by Prof. Florian Zieser
- Automated proofs of partition congruences, led by Prof. Scott Ahlgren
- Transforms of Functions – Theory and Applications, led by Prof. Joseph Rosenblatt
- Win/Loss Sequences in Sports Leagues, led by Prof. AJ Hildebrand
- Scale-free First Passage Percolation, led by Prof. Partha Dey
- Mapping out the quantum channel zoo, led by Prof. Felix Leditzky
- Real superalgebras, led by Prof. Dan Berwick-Evans
- List coloring with requests for planar graphs, led by Prof. Peter Bradshaw
- Finding the Department’s Deep Structure, led by Prof. Yuliy Baryshnikov
Spring 2023 projects
- Uniform distribution and rigidity, led by Prof. Emeritus Joseph Rosenblatt
- Talbot effect on the 2-sphere, led by Prof. Burak Erdogan
- Math models, led by Prof. Steven Bradlow and Prof. Karen Mortensen
- Quantum circuits and quantum machine learning II, led by Prof. Marius Junge
- Rumor propagation on a spread-out lattice graph, led by Prof. Partha Dey
- Win/loss sequences in sports leagues, led by Prof. Emeritus A J Hildebrand
- Quantum channels and error correction II, led by Roy Araiza
- Data from Ukraine, led by Prof. Richard Sowers
- Data in Ukraine II, led by Prof. Richard Sowers
2022 projects
- Modular forms and homotopy, led by Prof. Vesna Stojanoska
- Developing advice for getting into graduate school, led by Prof. Susan Tolman
- Rainbow connections in multipartite graphs, led by Sean English
- Select topics in quantum information theory, led by Roy Araiza and Prof. Felix Leditzky
- Optimal approximations, led by Prof. Emeritus Joseph Rosenblatt
- Competition with random walk on random graphs, led by Prof. Partha Dey and Daesung Kim
- Dynamics of generalized coupled spin systems, led by Joseph Palmer
- Computing packing capacities from polygons, led by Joseph Palmer
- Randomness in Number Theory, led by Prof. Emeritus A J Hildebrand
- Edge colorings without small substructures, led by Sean English
- Burning graphs, led by Sean English
- The math department’s deep structure, led by Prof. Yuliy Baryshnikov
- Root dynamics for random polynomials under differentiation, led by Prof. Yuliy Baryshnikov and Tomoyuki Shirai (Kyushu)
- Distance cospectrality of networks, led by Sean English
- Math models, led by Prof. Steven Bradlow
- Phase retrieval, led by Prof. Emeritus Joseph Rosenblatt
- Detection of displacement and needs related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, led by Jana Diesner and Prof. Richard Sowers
- Fractal Fourier series, led by Prof. Emeritus A J Hildebrand
- Quantum channels and error correction, led by Roy Araiza
- Permutations and shallow quantum circuits, led by Prof. Marius Junge
- Quantum teleportation and quantum state discrimination, led by Prof. Felix Leditzky
2021 projects
- Arithmetic properties of partition ranks, led by Olivia Beckwith
- Developing exciting outreach material III, led by Prof. Philipp Hieronymi
- Developing Pecan, led by Prof. Philipp Hieronymi
- Gait dynamics
- Greek drivers
- Half integral weight Eisenstein series, led by Olivia Beckwith
- Higher symmetries in geometry and physics, led by Prof. Daniel Berwick-Evans
- Homotopy, modular forms, and the spectrum Q(l)
- Interactive visualizations with Mathematica II, led by Prof. Emeritus Joseph Hildebrand
- Packing capacities of Delzant polygons, led by Joseph Palmer
- Packing capacities of semitoric polygons, led by Joseph Palmer
- P-adic numbers and ultrametric calculus, led by Shiang Tang
- Patient hospital fall dynamics, led by Prof. Richard Sowers and Mao Li
- Semitoric helices and polygons, led by Joseph Palmer
- Theorem proving in LEAN, led by Prof. Phillipp Hieronymi
- Turán problems, led by Prof. Jozsef Balog
- Uni-High Project: Representation of integers as sum of squares, led by Debmalya Basak
- Uni-High Project: A project in learning theory, led by Jiajie Yang
- Uni-High Project: A project in extremal combinatorics, led by Igor Albuquerque Araujo
- Uni-High Project: Some applications of theoretical computer science, led by Rocco Davino
- Uni-High Project: Counting infinite symmetric tiling patterns, led by Joseph Rennie
- Building a computer by braiding colorful knots II, led by Eric Samperton
- Competition among random walks on torus, led by Prof. Partha Dey and Daesung Kim
- Detecting knottedness with quantum computers, led by Eric Samperton
- Developing exciting outreach material IV, led by Prof. Susan Tolman
- Interactive Visualizations with Mathematica III, led by Prof. Emeritus A J Hildebrand
- Modular forms and the homotopy of Q(l), led by Prof. Vesna Stojanoska
- Toric and semitoric packing capacities, led by Joseph Palmer
- Zeros of electrical fields, led by Prof. Emeritus Joseph Rosenblatt
2020 projects
- Building a computer by braiding colorful knots, led by Eric Samperton
- Building a theorem prover, led by Prof. Philipp Hieronymi
- Cyclic vectors for certain D-modules, led by Prof. Aron Heleodoro
- Developing exciting outreach material II, led by Prof. Philipp Hieronymi
- Finding Weierstrass equations for elliptic curves
- Finite subalgebras of the Steenrod algebra and their modules, led by Dominic Culver
- Firefighters on graphs, led by Sean English
- Game theory with arithmetic progressions, led by Sean English
- Higher-shuffles operads II, led by Aron Heleodoro
- Interactive visualizations with Mathematica, led by Prof. Emeritus A J Hildebrand
- Majestic colorings of graphs, led by Sean English
- Pairs of disjoint matchings, led by Anush Tserunyan
- Saturation problems for paths in hypergraphs, led by Sean English
- Uni-High Project: Exploring algorithms, led by Weihang Wang
- Uni-High Project: Geometric group theory and computation, led by Heejoung Kim
- Uni-High Project: “Interactive theorem proving in Lean: Can we teach proofs to a computer?”, led by Vaibhav Karve
- Uni-High Project: Investigations in combinatorial game theory, led by Bob Krueger
- Uni-High Project: The hunt for great graphs, led by Madie Farris
- Calculus, geometry, and probability in n dimensions, led by Prof. A J Hildebrand
- Developing exciting outreach material, led by Prof. Philipp Hieronymi
- Exploring divisibility patterns in colored partitions, led by Olivia Beckwith
- Mathematics of change—Ringing and the Altgeld Chimes, led by Prof. Jeremy Tyson
- Pecan: An automated theorem prover, led by Prof. Philipp Hieronymi
- Polygonal billiard tables with obstacles, led by Chandrika Sadanand
- Theorem proving in LEAN, led by Prof. Philipp Hieronymi
- Traveling along straight lines on an infinite surface with finite area, led by Chandrika Sadanand
- Traveling along straight lines on a symmetric infinite surface, led by Chandrika Sadanand