Past RSI Projects
2025 Participants and Topics
2024 Participants and Topics
| Isaac Chen | On the Crossing Profile of Rectilinear Drawings of Complete Graphs | Mentor: Oriol Solé Pi |
| Nikola Gyulev | On Torus Orbits of Symplectic Leaves from Upper Cluster Algebras with Poisson Structure | Mentor: Hamilton Ji Wan |
| Sophia Liao | Orbits of the Braid Group Action on Rank m Fp-Local Systems Over the n-Punctured Riemann Sphere | Mentor: Yonghwan Kim |
| Austin Luo | Chip-Firing on Directed and Binary Trees | Mentor: Ryota Inagaki |
| Tatiana Medved | Dynamical Torsion for Surfaces of Constant Negative Curvature | Mentor: Alain Kangabire |
| Christopher Qiu | Slice Genus Bounds for Knots using Grid Diagrams | Mentor: Yonghwan Kim |
| Akilan Sankaran | From Walking to Tunneling: A Generalized Pilot-Wave System | Mentor: Diego Israel Chavez |
| Eric Wang | An Isoperimetric Problem for the First Neumann Eigenvalue on the Sphere | Mentor: Shrey Aryan |
| Davido Zhang | Lipschitz Optimal Transport Maps | Mentor: Shrey Aryan |
| Ashley Zhu | Curve Shortening Flow on n-Loop Curves | Mentor: Michael Law |
2023 Participants and Topics
2022 Participants and Topics
2021 Participants and Topics
2020 Participants and Topics
| Lucy Cai | Optimal Heating on Parallelogram Tori | Mentor: Catherine Cawley Wolfram |
| Yunseo Choi | On Two-sided Matching in Infinite Markets | Mentor: Prof. Scott Duke Kominers |
| Elliott Fairchild | Pointwise Temporal Decay of Solutions of the Klein-Gordon Equation in Schwarzschild Spacetime | Mentor: Ethan Sussman |
| Gregory Li | Clique Structure of Orthomodular Posets | Mentor: Ethan Sussman |
| Andrei Mandelshtam | Sums of Binomial Coefficients Evaluated at $\alpha \in \bar{\mathbb{Q}}$, and applications | Mentor: Daniil Kalinov |
| Nikola Staykov | On the Sizes of Unions of Circles over Finite Fields | Mentor: Elia Portnoy |
| Rahul Thomas | Width of Graph Mappings | Mentor: Elia Portnoy |
| Gerald Xu | Geometric Quaternionic Quantum Mechanics | Mentor: Ethan Sussman |
| Alexis Yi | Bounding The Size of The Modular Pants Graph | Mentor: Catherine Wolfram |
2019 Participants and Topics
| Dimitar Chakarov | On a Generalization of Artin's Conjecture for Primitive Roots in Gaussian Integers | Mentor: Yichi Zhang |
| Lauren Chen | Two Problems on Cantor Set Arithmetic | Mentor: Yuqiu Fu |
| Eddie Hu | $R_+(S)$ for Algebraic Numbers | Mentor: Daniil Kalinov |
| Benjamin Kang | A Variation of the Erdös-Turán Conjecture and the Minimality of Multiplicative Bases | Mentor: Yichi Zhang |
| Rupert Li | $\mathbb{F}_q$-rational Points of Hypersurfaces in Weighted Projective Spaces over Finite Fields | Mentor: Chun Hong Lo |
| Jason Liu | On Q-binomial Polynomials and Quantum Integer-Valued Polynomials | Mentor: Robert Burklund |
| Austen Mazenko | Determination of Markov Model Dynamics from Equilibrium Data Snapshots | Mentor: Dominic Skinner |
| Assylbek Olzhabayev | Diagonal Form of the Varchenko Matrices for Oriented Matroids | Mentor: Adela YiYu Zhang |
| AnaMaria Perez | On Generalizations of the Double Cap Conjecture | Mentor: Rose Zhang |
| Alexander Zhu | Modeling Local Order in Bacterial Collective Motions | Mentor: Boya Song |
2018 Participants and Topics
2017 Participants and Topics
| Jordan Lee | Stability of Finite Difference Schemes on the Diffusion Equation with Discontinuous Coefficients | Mentor: Sungwoo Jeong |
| Anqi Li | On Density of Integers and the Sumset | Mentor: Hong Wang |
| Tanya Otsetarova | Boundaries on the Number of Points in Acute Sets | Mentor: Zhulin Li |
| Alan Peng | The Lusztig-Vogan Bijection in the Case of the Trivial Representation | Mentor: Guangyi Yue |
| Sílvia Casacuberta Puig | On the Divisibility of Binomial Coefficients | Mentor: Oscar Mickelin |
| Michelle Shen | Modeling Population Dynamics in Changing Environments | Mentor: YounHun Kim |
| Grace M. Tian | Linear Upper Bound on the Ribbonlength of Torus Knots and Twist Knots | Mentor: Vishal Patil |
| David Wu | Nonuniform Distributions of Patterns of Sequences of Primes in Prime Moduli | Mentor: Robert Burklund |
| Karthik Yegnesh | Braid Groups on Triangulated Surfaces and Singular Homology | Mentor: Augustus Lonergan |
2016 Participants and Topics
2015 Participants and Topics
2014 Participants and Topics
2013 Participants and Topics
2012 Participants and Topics
2011 Participants and Topics
| Stanislav Atanasov | Rational Fixed Points of Polynomial Involutions | Mentor: Kestutis Cesnavicius |
| Megan Belzner | Emptying Sets: The Cookie Monster Problem | Mentor: Wuttisak Trongsiriwat |
| Rebecca Chen | A Computational Analysis of Triangle Subdivision | Mentor: Wenzhe Wei |
| Sitan Chen | On the Rank Number of Grid Graphs | Mentor: Jesse Geneson |
| Sidharth Dhawan | Complexity of Interlocking Polyominoes | Mentor: Zachary Abel |
| Eric Mannes | Bounds on Monotone Switching Networks for the Matching Problem | Mentor: Aaron Potechin |
| Todor Markov | On Extremal Degrees of Minimal Ramsey Graphs | Mentor: Wuttisak Trongsiriwat |
| Jessica Oehrlein | Book Thickness of Graphs and their Subdivisions | Mentor: Aaron Potechin |
| Matthew Rauen | On Strongly Multiplicative Graphs | Mentor: Jesse Geneson |
| Abraham Shin | Analysis of Random Surfaces Representing the Motion of Strings | Mentor: Wenzhe Wei |
| Adam H. Su | Rank-Generating Functions for the Distributive Lattice of Order Ideals for Comb Posets | Mentor: Benjamin Iriarte |
| Zacharias Tsampasidis | Non-divisibility of Binomial coefficients with a Given Set of Primes | Mentor: Kestutis Cesnavicius |
2010 Participants and Topics
| Rohit Agrawal | Avoiding Paradoxes in Positional Voting Systems | Mentor: Gregory Minton |
| Wenyu Cao | Expander Graphs, Eigenvalues, and Four-Cycles | Mentor: Rosalie Belanger-Rioux |
| Aubrey Faust | Orbits of Lower Triangular Matrices under Braid Group Transformations | Mentor: Ailsa Keating |
| Christopher Guthrie | Tropical Oriented Matroids and Subdivisions of Products of Simplices | Mentor: Kartik Venkatram |
| Kevin Hu | Enumerating Multiplicity-Free Labeled Floor Diagrams for Rational Curves | Mentor: John Lesieutre |
| Randy Jia | Simple Connectedness of Some Flip Complexes | Mentor: John Lesieutre |
| Matthew Kilgore | A New Look at the Unknotting Question | Mentor: Ailsa Keating |
| Brian Kim | Polynomials and 2-adic Analogues of the Collatz Problem | Mentor: John Ullman |
| Benjamin Kraft | Entries of Random Matrices | Mentor: Gregory Minton |
| Styliani Pantela | On Prime Factors of Fibonacci Numbers | Mentor: Wang Lu |
| Rafael Rafailov | The Hausdorff Dimension of Cycles Generated by Degree d Maps | Mentor: Fang Wang |
| David Ye | Generalization of a Coin-Weighing Problem | Mentor: John Ullman |
| Leon Zhang | On Alternative Error Indicators for an Adaptive Newton's Method | Mentor: Rosalie Belanger-Rioux |
2009 Participants and Topics
| Anirudha Balasubramanian | On the Lower Central Series Quotients of a Graded Associative Algebra | Mentor: Martina Balagović |
| Martin Camacho | Lattice Representations and Linear Extensions of Series-Parallel and (m + n) - free Posets. | Mentor: Yan Zhang |
| Jonathan Hung | The Kummer congruence for Hurwitz numbers | Mentor: Jennifer French |
| Jacob Hurwitz | Decycling Density of Tessellations | Mentor: Nan Li |
| Tian-Yi (Damien) Jiang | On the Period Lengths of the Parallel Chip-Firing Game | Mentor: Yan Zhang |
| George Kerchev | On the Filtration of the Free Algebra by Ideals Generated by its Lower Central Series. | Mentor: Bhairav Singh |
| Akhil Mathew | A Classication of Finite-Dimensional Simple Objects in the Generic Deligne Category of the Degenerate Affine Hecke Algebra. | Mentor: Dustin Clausen |
| Dimitrios Pagonakis | An Improved Lower Bound on Moser's Worm Problem | Mentor: Tirasan Khandhawit |
| Arjun Puranik | Finite-dimensional Irreducible Representations of Rational Cherednik Algebras Associated to the Coxeter Group H3. | Mentor: Martina Balagovic |
| Lauren Stephens | Bounds on the Relative Sizes of Sumsets | Mentor: Bhairav Singh |
| Dennis Tseng | Generalized Nonaveraging Integer Sequences | Mentor: Nan Li |
| Lynnelle Lin Ye | Chomp on Graphs and Subsets | Mentor: Tirasan Khandhawit |
2008 Participants and Topics
| Noah Arbesfeld | On the lower central series for the free algebra with two generators | Mentor: David Jordan |
| Kristin Cordwell | On G-Dierence: A Property of Permutations and Words | Mentor: Joel Lewis |
| Miles Edwards | 2-Sylow subgroups of ideal class groups of imaginary quadratic elds | Mentor: Liang Xiao |
| Katrina Evtimovay | Representations of Rational Cherednik Algebras of Rank 1 and 2 | Mentor: Emanuel Stoica |
| Hyun-Sub Hwang | Permutations with a Special Property and their Extension to Abelian Groups | Mentor: Joel Lewis |
| Eric Larson | Fusion categories of dimension qp2 | Mentor: David Jordan |
| Paul Lee | Modelling Salt Eect on DNA Conformations | Mentor: Xia (Carol) Hua |
| Patricia Li | On the number of permutations with a given number of cycles and left-to-right maxima | Mentor: Matjaz Konvalinka |
| Zane Li | On the intersection of quadric and cubic surfaces | Mentor: Ryan Reich |
| Xiao Tian Liew | Predominant intersection vertices in spanning trees | Mentor: Maxim Maydanskiy |
| Young Wook Lyoo | On The Linear Extensions and Interval Extensions of Poset | Mentor: Yulan Qing |
| Benjamin Mirabelli | Finding non-degenerate critical points of the superpotential associated to a smooth Fano plytope. | Mentor: Maxim Maydanskiy |
| Dimitrios Papadimitriou | Factorization in terms of Cyclotomic Polynomials and Algorithms for their Coecients. | Mentor: Tathagata Sengupta |
| Eliyahu Putterman | Determination of the Rate of Convergence of the Equi-Energy Sampler | Mentor: Xia (Carol) Hua |
| Maxim Rabinovich | On the Scaling Limit of a Generalized Divisible Sandpile Model | Mentor: Emanuel Stoica |
| David Harry Richman | Counting diagonal matrices over finite fields | Mentor: Tonghoon Suk |
| Adam Sealfron | Hypergraph Property Testers: The Role of Adaptivity | Mentor: Victor Chen |
| Jean Shiao | A study on nite subgroups of multiplicative non-zero Quaternions and SO(3) groups | Mentor: Tonghoon Suk |
| Sang-Hun Song | Imaginary quadratic elds with class groups exponent a power of 2 | Mentor: Liang Xiao |
| Galin Statev | Fermat-Euler Dynamics | Mentor: Tathagata Sengupta |
| Daniel Vitek | Hamiltonicity of Conguration Spaces | Mentor: Yulan Qing |
| Brent Woodhouse | Characters of Induced Representations in Coxeter Groups | Mentor: Matjaz Konvalinka |
| Peter Zhang | The integrability of ƒ ex2dx in elds of characteristic p | Mentor: Ryan Reich |
2007 Participants and Topics
| Utsav Bhat | Mathematical Model of the Single Transferable Vote Election |
| Alex Churchill | Self-Reflective Comma-Free Codes |
| Alex Chen | On the Reducible Quintic Complete Base Polynomials |
| Benjamin Dozier | Descriptive Complexity of Random Bit Strings |
| Philip Hu | On the Kakeya Conjecture in Three Dimensions |
| Paul Kominers | On Various Chip-Firing Games |
| Laney Kuenzel | Modeling Choices in the Travelers Dilemma |
| Winston Luo | Cake-Cutting with Locally Negative Preference Functions |
| Ping Fung Ng | On the Problem of Finding the 27 Tropical Lines On A Tropical Cubic Surface |
| Yasin Razlik | Counting Nodal Curves in CP2 Via Floor Diagrams |
| David Rolnick | Subspace Intersection: Multi- dimensional Representation of Graphs |
| Caroline Suen | On Search Techniques for Root-Unitary Polynomials |
| Anne Ye | Finding Rootless Matrices Using Jordan Normal Form |
| Qiaochu Yuan | Elliptic Curves as Space Quartics |
| Susan Zhang | Decomposition of Algebraic Models of Quantum Information Transference |