Past RSI Projects

2025 Participants and Topics

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Anay Aggarwal Weak Error Analysis and Small-Noise Optimization of Stochastic Linear Multistep Methods (SLMMs) for Itô and Lévy SDEs Mentor: Joonsoo Lee
Shruti Arun On $q$-Analogs of the Markov Equation Mentor: Mohit Hulse
Rachel Chen Explicit Irreducible Decomposition of the Spin Representation of the Temperley-Lieb Algebra Mentor: Kenta Suzuki
Samanyu Ganesh Characterizing Variations in the Ruelle Zeta Function Under Conformal Perturbations to the Metrics of Negatively Curved Riemannian 2-Manifolds Mentor: Alain Kangabire
Sophia Jin Coloring-Based Knot Invariants in Projective Space Mentor: Kenta Suzuki
Jaeho Lee Quadratic Large Sieves for “Algebraically Impossible” Sets Mentor: Samuel Packman
Shuxuan (Judy) Li Hilbert Series of Quasi-invariant Polynomials of $D_n$ in Characteristic $p$ Mentor: Frank Wang
Aaron Lin Labeled Chip-Firing on $k$-ary and 3-regular Trees Mentor: Ryota Inagaki
Susie Lu On the Maximum Spread of Directed Graphs Mentor: Prof. John Urschel and Genaro Laymuns
Dimana Pramatarova Investigating the Periodicity of Weighted Catalan Numbers and Generalizing Them to Higher Dimensions Mentor: Ryota Inagaki
Allen Qian Parameter Estimation in Dynamic Bayesian Networks Mentor: Joonsoo Lee

2021 Participants and Topics

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Reagan Choi Stochastic Processes in Quantum Error Correction Mentor: Andrey Boris Khesin
Kevin Cong On the Sizes of Furstenberg Sets in Finite Fields Mentor: Alexander Ortiz
Allen Lin On the Properties of Polyas Circular Symmetrization Mentor: Sarah Tammen
On Ki Luo Investigation on the Johnson-Leader-Russell Question for Square Posets Mentor: Pakawut Jiradilok
Eli Meyers Homological Equivalence and Forman Equivalence of Discrete Morse Functions on Graphs Mentor: Mary Stelow
Comfort Ohajunwa On Phase Transitions in the Approximation Ratio for MAX 2-SAT Mentor: Mitchell Harris
Isabella Quan On Snowflakes and Pizza: Graph Theoretic Properties of 2D Steiner Solutions Mentor: Mary Stelow
Angel Raychev A Generalization of Descent Polynomials Mentor: Pakawut Jiradilok
Tair Satubaldin Examples for the Robust Qualitative Uncertainty Principle Mentor: Alexander Ortiz
Daniel Xia An Inequality for the Antiferromagnetic Potts Model Mentor: David Jongwon Lee
Lucy Xiao The Adaptive Capacity for Two Mixed States Mentor: Andrey Boris Khesin

2020 Participants and Topics

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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

2015 Participants and Topics

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Amy Chou NP-Hard Triangle Packing Problems Mentor: James Hirst
Brandon Rafal Epstein Maximizing the Number of Lattice Points on a Strictly Convex Curve Mentor: Hong Wang
Kristian Georgiev On the size of unions of lines in $\mathbb{F}^n$ satisfying the Wolff axiom Mentor: Hong Wang
Brian Gu Bounds on Maximal Tournament Codes Mentor: Brandon Tran
Dylan Hendrickson Generalizing the Inversion Enumerator to G-Parking Functions Mentor: Pavel Galashin
Meena Jagadeesan An Analytic Approach to the Modeling of Microbial Locomotion in Porous Media Mentor: Andrew Rzeznik
Emily Jia Extremal Number of Trees in Hypercubes Mentor: Chiheon Kim
Abijith Krishnan A Secretary Problem with a Sliding Window for Recalling Applicants Mentor: Shan-Yuan Ho
Wilbur Li Distributions of the $k$-major index in random words and permutations Mentor: Cesar Cuenca
Sarvasva Raghuvanshi New Results on Ramsey Multiplicity and Graph Commonality Mentor: James Hirst
Pol Gómez Riquelme A combinatorial interpretation of the ℎ- and $\gamma$-vectors of the cyclohedron Mentor: Pavel Galashin
Uma Roy The $\beta(\infty)$ Crystal for a Family of Generalized Quantum Groups Mentor: Seth Shelley-Abrahamson
Jared Tramontano The Status Update Problem: Optimal Strategies for Pseudo-Deterministic Systems Mentors: Dr. Shan-Yuan Ho and Siddharth Venkatesh

2013 Participants and Topics

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Leigh Marie Braswell Angles of the Cookie Monster Problem Mentor: Benjamin Iriarte
Evan Chen Diagrammatic Computation of Morphisms between Bott-Samelson bimodules via Libedinsky's Light Leaves Mentor: Francisco Unda
Rumen Dangovski On the Lower Central Series of PI-Algebras Mentor: Nathan Harman
Annie Hu On the Number of Linear Extensions of Graphs Mentor: Benjamin Iriarte
Rohil Prasad On Binary Formations and Sequence Extremal Functions Mentor: Jesse Geneson
Raj Raina Minimum Degrees of Minimal Ramsey Graphs Mentor: Rik Sengupta
Sarah Shader Weighted Catalan Numbers and Their Divisibility Properties Mentor: Gaku Liu
Jessica Shi The Speeds of Families of Intersection Graphs Mentor: Francisco Unda
Albert Soh Crossing Numbers on the Disk with Multiple Holes Mentor: Gaku Liu
Bertrand Stone Characterization of the Line Complexity of Cellular Automata Generated by Polynomial Transition Rules Mentor: Chiheon Kim
Nickolay Stoyanov On Lower Central Series of the r,q-polynomial algebra Mentor: Nathan Harman

2011 Participants and Topics

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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