Spring 2022 convocation

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Spring 2022 convocation

Five Ph.D. and ten M.Math. C&O students will receive their degrees at the June 16 (6:30 pm) Spring 2022 convocation. This is the first in-person convocation ceremony since Fall 2019!

Congratulations to the students and their supervisors!

Joan Arrow (MMath)
Assessing the trainability of the variational quantum state diagonalization algorithm at scale
Supervisor: Jon Yard

Matthew Gerstbrein (MMath)
Vertex stabilizers for network bargaining games
Supervisor: Jochen Koenemann and Laura Sanita

Valerie Gilchrist (MMath)
An isogeny-based adaptor signature using SQISign
Supervisor: David Jao

Simeng Hu (MMath)
A combinatorial tale of two scattering amplitudes: See two bijections
Supervisor: Karen Yeats

Hongyu Li (MMath)
Cointeractions of some word bialgebras
Supervisor: Karen Yeats

Yanjia Li (MMath)
Coloring algorithms for graphs and hypergraphs with forbidden substructures
Supervisor: Sophie Spirkl

Yinchen Liu (MMath)
Moments of random quantum circuits and applications in random circuit sampling
Supervisor: David Gosset

Angus Lowe (MMath)
Learning quantum states without entangled measurements
Supervisor: Ashwin Nayak

Colter MacDonald (MMath)
On finding large cliques when the chromatic number is close to the maximum degree
Supervisor: Penny Haxell

Jimit Majmudar (PhD)
Recovery guarantees for graph clustering problems
Supervisor: Stephen Vavasis

Rose McCarty (PhD)
Local structure for vertex-minors
Supervisor: Jim Geelen

Joshua Nevin (PhD)
Thomassen's 5-choosability theorem extends to many faces
Supervisor: Bruce Richter

Steven Santoli (MMath)
Minimum number of triangles of K5 descendants
Supervisor: Karen Yeats

Leanne Stuive (PhD)
Comparing intersection cut closures using simple families of lattice-free convex sets
Supervisors: Bertrand Guenin and Leven Tuncel

Matthew Sullivan (PhD)
Simple drawings of Kn from rotation systems
Supervisor: Bruce Richter