Thirteenth Annual Spring-Term PRIMES Conference, May 13-14, 2023

Room 2-190 , MIT

Open to the public

May conference abstracts booklet

Saturday, May 13

1:15 pm: Welcoming Remarks

Prof. Pavel Etingof, PRIMES Chief Research Advisor
Dr. Slava Gerovitch, PRIMES Program Director

PRIMES Circle students with Program Coordinator Mary Stelow — PRIMES Circle students with Program Coordinator Mary Stelow

1:20-1:50 pm: Session 1. Math Reading Groups

Rishi Gujjar, “Theorems in the Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces” (mentor Dr. Jingze Zhu) (slides)
Isha Agarwal & Victoria Li, “Knot Theory” (mentor Julius Baldauf) (slides)

Chahat Kalia & Cynthia Tian — Chahat Kalia & Cynthia Tian

2:00-3:10 pm: Session 2. PRIMES Circle

Marisa Gaetz & Mary Stelow, PRIMES Circle coordinators, Welcoming remarks
Chahat Kalia & Cynthia Tian, “Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind” (mentor Paige Dote) (slides)
Cathal Stephens & Roonak Thapa, “Euler’s Totient Function” (mentor Ariana Park) (slides)
Elian Martinez & Jorge Sanchez, “Knot Theory” (mentor Luis Modes) (slides)

Cathal Stephens & Roonak Thapa — Cathal Stephens & Roonak Thapa

3:20-4:10 pm: Session 3. PRIMES Circle

Matheus Alves & Gael Medina, “Data Structures and Graph Algorithms (mentor Carlos Alvarado) (slides)
Veronika Moroz, Ada Tsui & Athena Wang, “Combinatorics and Representation Theory” (mentor Katherine Tung) (slides)

Elian Martinez & Jorge Sanchez — Elian Martinez & Jorge Sanchez

4:20-4:50 pm: Session 4. PRIMES Circle

Sophia Heinrich & Lucy O'Brien, “Introductory Combinatorics and Its Applications” (mentor Lily Chen) (slides)
Lillian MacArthur, “Classifying Isometries” (mentor Honglin Zhu) (slides)

Veronika Moroz, Ada Tsui & Athena Wang — Veronika Moroz, Ada Tsui & Athena Wang

Sunday, May 14

1:00-1:55 pm: Session 5. Computer Science and Computational Biology

Anshul Rastogi, “Threshold-Based Inference of Dependencies in Distributed Systems” (mentor Prof. Raja Sambasivan, Tufts University) (slides)
Alicia Li & Mati Yablon, “Adversarial Attacks Against Online Learning Agents in MDPs” (mentor Mayuri Sridhar) (slides)
Steven Tan, “Improved Models for Somatic CAG Repeat Expansion in Huntington’s Disease” (mentors Bob Handsaker and Seva Kashin, Broad Institute) (slides)

PRIMES STEP students with Dr. Tanya Khovanova — PRIMES STEP students with Dr. Tanya Khovanova

2:00-2:40 pm: Session 6. PRIMES STEP

Jasper Caravan, Michael Han, Andrew Kalashnikov, Ella Li, Alexander Meng, Vaibhav Rastogi, Gordon Redwine, Lev Strougov, Angela Zhao (PRIMES STEP Junior group), “SOS” (mentor Dr. Tanya Khovanova) (slides)
Nikhil Byrapuram, Irene Choi, Adam Ge, Selena Ge, Sylvia Zia Lee, Evin Liang, Rajarshi Mandal, Aika Oki, Daniel Wu, Michael Yang (PRIMES STEP Senior group), “Cards, Magic Squares, and Codes” (mentor Dr. Tanya Khovanova)

Adrian Baez & Danielle Harrington — PRIMES STEP students with Dr. Tanya Khovanova

3:00-4:10 pm: Session 7. PRIMES Circle

Adrian Baez & Danielle Harrington, “Types of Normal-Play Games” (mentor Yuyuan Luo) (slides)
Ryan Chao & Yakir Propp, “Theoretical Machines” (mentor Zhao Yu Ma) (slides)
Luba Slesarenko & Chloe Zhong, “Introduction to Cryptography” (mentor Aparna Gupte) (slides)

Luba Slesarenko & Chloe Zhong — Luba Slesarenko & Chloe Zhong

4:30-5:30 pm: Session 8. PRIMES Circle

Emmanuel Mateo & Jonathan Nguyen, “Graph Theory” (mentor Lexy Zitzmann) (slides)
Niva Sethi, Tzofia Strey & Angela Zhao, “A Brief Survey of Key Topics in Group Theory” (mentor Kaili Liu) (slides)
Iris Liu, Bella Qu, & Niyathi Srinivasan - Applications of Probability” (mentor Lexi Spinetta) (slides)

PRIMES Circle students with Program Coordinator Marisa Gaetz — PRIMES Circle students with Program Coordinator Marisa Gaetz

Contact

With questions, contact PRIMES Program Director Slava Gerovitch at