Meeting of the Minds
Poster Competition: past winners
This competition is sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences, through the generosity of alumnus David Simmons. Its purpose is to encourage undergraduate projects and research in mathematics, and to educate the CMU community about the wide range of opportunities in mathematics.
The competition is open to any student who has completed a project that has significant mathematical content. Students must be enrolled at CMU as undergraduates in the spring semester of previous year. A panel of judges will rate the projects to the following criteria: quality of abstract, clarity of objective, organization of thoughts, general quality of work, significance of work, oral presentation skills, visual presentation quality, novel and/or appropriate use of mathematical methods, responses to questions.
2020
David Simmons Prize for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics
Fei Peng
➤ What can you draw?
Runners-up
Max Aires
➤ On the number of edges in a maximally linkless graph
Philip Lamkin
➤ Log-convexity of moments of averages
Noah Stevenson
➤ Characterizations of screened Sobolev spaces
2019
David Simmons Prize for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics
Emily Zhu
➤ Multicolor Ramsey Numbers for Small Hypergraphs
Honorable Mentions
Alp Müyesser
➤ Unavoidable Colorful Patterns in Graphs
Xinyu Wu
➤ A Log-Sobolev Inequality for the Multislice, with Applications
Annie Xu
➤ Traces for Homogeneous Sobolev Spaces in Infinite Cylindrical Domains
Young Researcher Award
Laura Li & Lily Qiao
➤ Portfolio Optimization with Order Size Impact
2018
David Simmons Prize for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics
Zachary Singer
➤ Sparse Polynomial Approximations with Unknown Random Sampling
Second Place
Matthew Bowen
➤ The Sprague-Grundy Function for Some Selective Compound Games
Third Place (Tie)
Sidhanth Mohanty (CS major)
➤ Sum-of-Squares Refutation Threshold for Regular SORT_4 Instances
Nicholas Sieger
➤ Cycle Double Covers
Young Researcher Award
Zizhuo Chen, David Xu, Yuzhi Guo and Anni Huang
➤ Utility Optimization in the Agency Problem
2017
David Simmons Prize for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics
Sam Zbarsky
➤ Energy Decay in a Fluid with a Free Boundary
Runner-up
Ananya Kumar (CS major)
➤ Streaming Algorithms for Approximate Convex Hulls
Honorable Mentions
Manuel Fernandez
➤ Online Purchasing of Minimal Spanning Trees
Liuyu Jin
➤ Existence, Uniqueness and Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions to a Linear System of PDEs with Weak Viscoelastic Damping
Tim Li
➤ L1 Regularization for Compact Support
2016
First Place: Mathematics Poster
Jackson Bahr (2017)
➤ Subrings of C Generated by Angles
Honorable Mentions: Mathematics Poster
Keven Chionh (2018), Liuyu Jin (2018)
➤ Brachistichrone Problem in Non-uniform Gravitational Fields
Weichen Yin (2016)
➤ Twinning conditions in Austenite-Martensite Phase Transitions
2015
First Place: Mathematics Poster
Philip Garrison (2016)
➤ Good Graph Hunting
Honorable Mentions: Mathematics Poster
David Mehrle (2015), Tomer Reiter (2015)
➤ Newman’s Conjecture in Function Fields
Nicholas Takaki (2015)
➤ Image Segmentation with Dynamic Artifacts Detection and Bias Correction
Jeremy Meza (2015)
➤ Explicit Bounds for Pseudospectra of Matrices and Operators