Leigh Marie Braswell,
The Cookie Monster Problem
(mentor Dr. Tanya Khovanova) (
slides
)
Saarik Kalia and Michael Zanger-Tishler,
Good functions and multivariate polynomials
(mentor Tue Ly, Brandeis University) (
slides
)
Head mentor Tanya Khovanova illustrates the Cookie Monster Problem
2:00 pm Session 4
Ying Gao,
Depths of posets ordered by refinement
(mentor Sergei Bernstein) (
slides
)
Vahid Fazel-Rezai,
Equivalence classes of length-changing replacements of size-3
patterns
(mentor Dr. Tanya Khovanova) (
slides
)
William Kuszmaul,
On
q
-enumeration of modular statistics
(mentor Darij Grinberg) (
slides
)
Ying Gao
3:15 pm Session 5
Gabriella Studt,
Higher Bruhat order on Weyl groups of Type B
(mentor Daniel Thompson) (
slides
)
Ravi Jagadeesan,
Belyi functions with prescribed monodromy
(mentor Akhil Mathew) (
slides
)
Ritesh Ragavender, q
-analogues of symmetric polynomials and nilHecke algebras
(mentor Alex Ellis) (
slides
)
Ravi Jagadeesan explains intricate aspects of his research
4:30 pm Session 6
Jeffrey Cai,
Orbits of the symplectic group on partial flag varieties of type A
(mentor Vinoth Nandakumar) (
slides
)
Isaac Xia,
Quotients of lower central series over
Z
with multiple relations
(mentor Dr. Yael Fregier) (
slides
)
Discussion between Prof. Pavel Etingof and Prof. Jacob Fox
Sunday, May 20
Section II. Computer Science
9:00 am Welcoming Remarks
Prof. Srini Devadas, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science
Dr. Slava Gerovitch, PRIMES Program Director
Patrick Long and Anish Athalye
9:15 am Session 7
Nicolaas Kaashoek and William Wu,
How to teach a class to grade itself
(mentors Christos Tzamos and Matt Weinberg) (
slides
)
Anish Athalye and Patrick Long,
Performance analysis and optimization of skip lists for modern
multi-core architectures
(mentors Austin Clements and Stephen Tu) (
slides
)
Ajay Saini,
Modeling the opinion dynamics of a social network
(mentor Dr. Natasha Markuzon) (
slides
)
Ajay Saini
10:40 am Session 8/h4>
Istvan Chung and Nathan Wolfe,
A collaborative editor in Ur/Web
(mentor Benjamin Barenblat) (
slides
)
Oron Propp and Alex Sekula,
Automating interactive theorem-proving with Coq and Ltac
(mentor Drew Haven) (
slides
)
Steven Homberg,
Finding enrichments of functional annotations for
disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms
(mentor Dr. Luke Ward) (
slides
)
John Long,
Evidence of purifying selection in humans
(mentor Angela Yen) (
slides
)
Steven Homberg
2:00 pm Session 10
Dr. Gil Alterovitz, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and
Technology, Introductory remarks
Ben Zheng,
Removing disorder in drug resistance-related proteins in
tuberculosis through hill-climbing algorithms
(mentor Dr. Gil Alterovitz) (
slides
)
Peijin Zhang,
Leveraging disordered-ordered interactions to yield new targets
and drugs for tuberculosis
(mentor Dr. Gil Alterovitz)
Jonathan Patsenker
3:00 pm Session 11
Jonathan Patsenker,
Finding the binding sites of MoRFs on a partner protein
(mentor Dr. Gil Alterovitz) (
slides
)
Yishen Chen,
SMART Genomics API
(mentor Dr. Gil Alterovitz) (
slides
)
Skanda Koppula,
Prediction of disease by pathway-based integrative genomic and
demographic analysis
(mentor Dr. Gil Alterovitz and Dr. Amin Zollanvari) (
slides
)
Boryana Doyle
Section III. Computational and Physical Biology
4:10 pm Session 12
Prof. Leonid Mirny, Division of Health Sciences and Technology and
Physics Department, Introductory remarks
Boryana Doyle,
Chromatin organization: from polymer loops to topological
domains
(mentors Geoffrey Fudenberg and Maxim Imakaev) (
slides
)
Carolyn Lu
Carolyn Lu,
Dynamic folding of chromatin domains by active SMC-mediated
loops
(mentors Geoffrey Fudenberg and Maxim Imakaev) (
slides
)
Ashwin Murali,
Lineage-dependent properties of 16S ribosomal RNA nucleotide
composition
(mentors Geoffrey Fudenberg and Maxim Imakaev) (
slides
)
Hao Shen,
The impact of gene order on evolution
(mentor Anton Goloborodko) (
slides
)
Hao Shen
Contact
With questions, contact PRIMES Program Director Slava Gerovitch at
2013 PRIMES Conference
