Presentations of 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.

10:00 am Welcoming Remarks 

Prof. Michel Goemans, Head of the MIT Mathematics Department 
Prof. Pavel Etingof, PRIMES Chief Research Advisor 
Dr. Slava Gerovitch, PRIMES Program Director

10:15 am Session 1: PRIMES STEP

Isha Agarwal, Matvey Borodin, Aidan Duncan, Kaylee Ji, Shane Lee, Boyan Litchev, Anshul Rastogi, Garima Rastogi, and Andrew Zhao (PRIMES STEP Senior group), A Penney for our thoughts: A story of a series of games and an Avaricious Duo (mentor Dr. Tanya Khovanova)
Eric Chen, William Du, Tanmay Gupta, Alicia Li, Srikar Mallajosyula, Matthew Qian, Rohith Raghavan, Arkajyoti Sinha, Maya Smith, and Samuel Wang (PRIMES STEP Junior group), Hidden dimension of SET: The classification of magic SET squares (mentor Dr. Tanya Khovanova)

11:00 am Session 2: PRIMES Circle 

Peter Haine, PRIMES Circle Coordinator, Introduction
Anya Ditkoff and Arshia Verma, Random numbers (mentor Natalya Ter-Saakov)
Kaylee Chen, Hawa Hamidou Tabayi, and Alice Zhou, Game theory: A playful presentation (mentor Marisa Gaetz)
Diego González Gauss and Anthony Zhao, Dynamic programming and applications (mentor Jung Soo (Victor) Chu)

12:10 pm Session 3: PRIMES Circle 

Joaquín Pischner Gutierrez and Jessica He, On group automorphisms (mentor Zhuofan Xie)
Zoe Shleifer and Elena Su, Continued fractions (mentor Maya Sankar)
William Ayinon, How Knot Theory is important to DNA Biology (mentor Kenneth Cox)
Benjamin Ratin, Surfaces in Knot Theory (mentor Kenneth Cox)

1:15 pm Session 4: PRIMES Circle 

Akhil Kammila and Anshul Rastogi, Evolution of curves via curve shortening flow (mentor Bernardo Hernández Adame)
Divya Rajaraman and Henry Serrano-Wu, Puzzles in graph theory (mentor Agustin Garcia)
Minghan Sun, Andrew Weinfeld, and Christopher Zhu (PRIMES reading group), Homomorphisms of Graphs: Colorings, Cliques and Transitivity (mentor Younhun Kim)