Presentations of Math research projects and expository talks by middle and high school students from PRIMES STEP and PRIMES Circle, suggested by MIT faculty and mentored by graduate and undergraduate students.

Expository talks by PRIMES Circle and Reading students, and presentations of research projects by PRIMES STEP students and seniors from the Computer Science and Computational Biology sections. The projects were suggested by MIT faculty and mentored by postdocs and graduate students.

Sunday, May 14

1:00-1:55 pm: Session 5. Computer Science and Computational Biology

• Anshul Rastogi, “Threshold-Based Inference of Dependencies in Distributed

Systems” (mentor Prof. Raja Sambasivan, Tufts University)

• Alicia Li & Mati Yablon, “Adversarial Attacks Against Online Learning Agents in

MDPs” (mentor Mayuri Sridhar)

• Steven Tan, “Improved Models for Somatic CAG Repeat Expansion in Huntington’s

Disease” (mentors Bob Handsaker and Seva Kashin, Broad Institute)

2:00-2:40 pm: Session 6. PRIMES STEP

• Jasper Caravan, Michael Han, Andrew Kalashnikov, Ella Li, Alexander Meng, Vaibhav

Rastogi, Gordon Redwine, Lev Strougov, Angela Zhao (PRIMES STEP Junior group),

“SOS” (mentor Dr. Tanya Khovanova)

• Nikhil Byrapuram, Irene Choi, Adam Ge, Selena Ge, Sylvia Zia Lee, Evin Liang,

Rajarshi Mandal, Aika Oki, Daniel Wu, and Michael Yang (PRIMES STEP Senior

group), “Cards, Magic Squares, and Codes” (mentor Dr. Tanya Khovanova)

3:00-4:10 pm: Session 7. PRIMES Circle

• Adrian Baez & Danielle Harrington, “Types of Normal-Play Games” (mentor Yuyuan

Luo)

• Ryan Chao & Yakir Propp, “Theoretical Machines” (mentor Zhao Yu Ma)

• Luba Slesarenko & Chloe Zhong, “Introduction to Cryptography” (mentor Aparna

Gupte)

4:30-5:50 pm: Session 8. PRIMES Circle

• Emmanuel Mateo & Jonathan Nguyen, “Graph Theory” (mentor Lexy Zitzmann)

• Niva Sethi, Tzofia Strey & Angela Zhao, “A Brief Survey of Key Topics in Group

Theory” (mentor Kaili Liu)

• Iris Liu, Bella Qu & Niyathi Srinivasan - Applications of Probability” (mentor Lexi

Spinetta)