Yu-Hin Au
Home university:
University of Waterloo
Supervisor:
Levent Tunçel
Project title:
Geometric Representations of Graphs and the Stable Set Problem
Balasingham Balamohan
Home university:
University of Toronto
Supervisor:
Bruce Richmond
Project title:
A Riemann Hypothesis for Graphs
Comments:
As a USRA I worked on understanding the construction of Ramanujan graphs. I was challenging and rewarding experience. My supervisor helped me whenever I was unable to progress. There were weekly seminars which introduced to us various topics in Combinatorics and Optimization. The experience I gained as USRA had been a very good preparation for my graduate studies in Mathematics I am currently pursuing.
Maurice Cheung
Home university:
University of Waterloo
Supervisor:
Romy Shioda/Levent Tunçel
Project title:
Optimization for Functional Genomics
Comments:
I
worked
under
the
supervision
of
Professor
Shioda
and
Professor
Tunçel
this
term.
My
work
centered
on
finding
the
optimal
price
of
a
product
line
that
maximize
a
company's
profit/revenue.
We
investigated
various
formulations
of
this
problem
as
a
mathematical
program
to
find
the
optimal
solution,
as
well
as
different
approximation
algorithms
that
finds
"good"
feasible
solution.
I
would
recommend
the
Undergraduate
Research
Assistant
(URA)
to
anyone
who
loves
math
especially
those
who
would
like
pursue
graduate
studies
in
mathematics.
You
will
gain
valuable
experience
in
doing
research
and
get
to
know
the
faculty
members
better.
Jonathan Dietrich
Home university:
University of Waterloo
Supervisor:
Jochen Koenemann
Project title:
On finding k edge-disjoint spanning trees in k-edge connected graphs
Lalit Jain
Home university:
University of Waterloo
Supervisor:
Chris Godsil
Alejandro Morales
Home university:
University of Waterloo
Supervisor:
Andris Ambainis/David Jackson
Mohamed Omar
Home university:
University of Waterloo
Supervisor:
David Jackson
Project title:
Towards a genus g Tutte invariant for the r-ring
Jamie Sikora
Home university:
University of Waterloo
Supervisor:
Henry Wolkowicz
Project title:
Protein Folding and Molecular Conformation using Euclidean Distance Matrices
Comments:
This summer I worked with Professor Henry Wolkowicz on a few different projects such as matrix differentiation and 3D anchored graph realizations. As I would like to continue my studies in optimization, working with Professor Wolkowicz, an expert in the field, has been a great experience. The summer URA program is a great way to learn about the joys of doing research. In summary, getting paid to do optimization is definitely awesome!
William Slofstra
Home university:
University of Waterloo
Supervisor:
Ian Goulden/Andu Nica
Project title:
A Combinatorial Extension of the Harer-Zagier Formula