From left, Joshua Amaniampong, Juan Gil, Jake Wellens, Ankur Moitra, Davesh Maulik, Dhruv Rohatgi, Julius Baldauf-Lenschen, and Ao Sun.
From left, Joshua Amaniampong, Juan Gil, Jake Wellens, Ankur Moitra, Davesh Maulik, Dhruv Rohatgi, Julius Baldauf-Lenschen, and Ao Sun.
The 2018 Hartley Rogers Jr. Family Prize for the best SPUR paper was awarded to three teams, to be split evenly, as decided by the faculty committee (Ju-Lee Kim, Bill Minicozzi, and Elchanan Mossel).
SPUR student Julius Baldauf-Lenschen and mentor Ao Sun were awarded “for a sharp lower bound for the entropy of immersed curves with type 1 singularities and an excellent, clear presentation.” The project was suggested by Bill Minicozzi.
SPUR+ students Juan Gil and Joshua Amaniampong and mentor Jake Wellens, who suggested the project, were awarded "for new theoretical applications of partial rejection sampling and their practical implementation."
SPUR student Dhruv Rohatgi and mentor Jake Wellens were awarded "for elegant design constructions, their application to bi-partite clique partitions and for novel contributions to ordered Ramsey theory." The project was suggested by Asaf Ferber.
Congratulations to all of the students and mentors. We also appreciate everyone who helped out, including those who provided ideas for the projects, all of the mentors, SPUR/SPUR+ faculty advisers Davesh Maulik and Ankur Moitra, and the program director, Slava Gerovitch, along with the Rogers family for their support of this program.