MIT Mathematics SPUR 2025 Conference

9:20 am - 9:30 am: Opening Remarks    

9:30 am - 10:00 am: Mohamed Meddour and Veronika Moroz, Computing link cobordism maps in Khovanov homology (mentor Mary Stelow)

10:00 am - 10:30 am: Maximus Lu and Aloysius Ng, Bounding the number of 2 rich points of configuration of lines (mentor Jiahui Yu)

10:30 am - 11:00 am: 30 Minute Break    

11:00 am - 11:30 am: Dyne Lee, Geometry of conormal varieties (mentor Katia Bogdanova)

11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Rosa Paten, Positivity in the Key Polynomial Basis (mentor Dora Woodruff)

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm: 90 Minute Lunch Break

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Ezra Guerrero and Oluyinka Lindblad, The nodal count condition for the Anderson model (mentor Lior Alon)

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Papon Lapate, Toric actions on lens spaces and applications to Ricci solitons (mentor Michael Law)

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm: 30 Minute Break    

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Eric Shen and Tony Wu, Learning Sparse Gaussian Graphical Models from a Single Glauber Trajectory (mentor Mahbod Majid)

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Henrick Rabinovitz and Joseph Vulakh, Langlands correspondence and Hitchin systems on nodal curves (mentor Ivan Motorin)

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Teo Lara, Transport characteristics and optimality in Medusozoan feeding (mentors Harry Walden and Ashu Tripathi)