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Julia Saccamano graduated from CCNY in 2019 with a B.S. in applied mathematics and a minor in economics. She is now working as a Research Associate at Deerfield Management, a healthcare investment firm!
Hear about it from Julia herself! --

My name is Julia Saccamano and I’m a 2019 graduate of the CCNY math department. I hold a BS in applied mathematics and a minor in economics. After graduating, I started working full time as a Research Associate at Deerfield Management, a healthcare investment firm where I interned the previous summer. I currently provide primary market research and analysis for companies and products in various healthcare sectors including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and healthcare services.

My favorite part about my work is the fact that I’m constantly learning. We need to understand and analyze the medical world as it advances, which is a never-ending process. It sometimes feels like not a lot has changed since I was a student because I’m still using the same skills that I developed during undergrad. I still get projects/assignments, have deadlines, do research, analyze data, and need to present my work.

When picking my major I didn’t know of many career opportunities for mathematics (aside from teaching or academia) but I decided that studying math was the best fit for me. Over the course of my undergraduate studies, I got exposed to many opportunities and avenues that revolved around math that I had no idea existed. One pathway led to the internship that I took at Deerfield as part of its Fellows program. Most of this exposure was outside of the classroom: talking with professors/faculty, going to lectures, and joining clubs and fellowship programs. This lead to me realize the importance of networking and being proactive to finding opportunities.

On that note, I’d like to thank Jason Redman for helping me learn to navigate the math department and for being available to answer any questions I had. I’d also like to express my deep gratitude to Professor Akin for his support over the years. Whether it was concerning classes, independent studies, internships, scholarships, presentations, or just general words of wisdom, he was always there for me, and I am sure I would not be where I am today without him.

Tuesday, October 10th, 12:45-1:45 in NAC 6/310 Rich Summer Internship participants, Abdullah Khan and Ryan Olsen, will be giving presentations on their work in two exciting fields!

Abdullah Khan
My work with Professor Medvedev involved studying specific parts of a Theorem by Hrushovski in a paper by Hirotaka Kikyo “On Generic Predicates and Automorphisms” in logic. My goal over the summer was to learn the necessary abstract algebra to parse this theorem and understand it. My final report consists of the preliminary mathematics needed to do this and an exposition of the theorem by Hrushovski from the perspective of an introductory student of mathematics.

Ryan Olsen
A theoretical cryptographic scheme based upon sending a string of bits, 0 and 1. This protocol circumvents the computational hardness assumptions found in most cryptosystems used today, although with a slight loss in accuracy. Its implementation and further improvements will be discussed.
There will be pizza and refreshments!

The NYC Regional Math Alliance organized a one-day conference highlighting the research of students being mentored by the NYC Math Alliance. The conference was held at the City College of New York on Saturday, September 21st, 2019 and featured short contributed talks by undergraduate students, poster sessions, two plenary talks, and a panel discussion on preparing for graduate school. Parallel sessions for the contributed talks will brought together students and faculty with shared interests in smaller groups. The poster sessions offered an opportunity for informal mathematical discussions. A special thanks to the organizers Prof. Gautam Chinta (CCNY), Prof. W. Patrick Hooper (CCNY), and Prof. Louis Beaugris (Kean University)

Prof. Gideon Zamba (University of Iowa) - keynote speaker.

Panelist (from the left)
W. Patrick Hooper, Professor of Mathematics and Director of the NYC Math Alliance, CUNY City College of New York.
Aihua Li, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Montclair State University.
Ilya Kofman, Deputy Executive Director of the Mathematics PhD Program, CUNY Graduate Center
Zheng-Chao Han, Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers University
Melody Goodman, Professor of Biostatistics, NYU College of Global Public Health
Thaddeus Tarpey, PhD Program Director Division of Biostatistics, NYU School of Medicine

Vincent Filardi (CCNY)- General Electric Aviation Material Wear Data Analysis

Anastasiia Timashova (CCNY) - Introduction to Residual Finiteness Growth Functions

Junjie Chen (CCNY) - Residual Finiteness Growths of Lamplighter Groups

Marino Echavarria (CCNY) - A Low Memory MPC Algorithm for the Minimum Cut

The Math Club will have a welcome back party on September 26th from 12:45PM-1:45PM in NAC 6/310 to discuss what kinds of events you might want to see the Math Club host, as well as various opportunities for undergraduate students like the department's new 4+1 joint Bachelor's/Master's degree program. Come grab some pizza and meet some other math enthusiasts!

Tuesday, Sept.17th, 12:45-1:45 in NAC 6/310 Rich Summer Internship participants, Joe Winter and Samuel Young, will be giving presentations on their work in two exciting fields.

Joe Winter
My work focuses on the dynamical system known as the perturbed doubling map, a function on the complex plane that maps a complex number z to z-squared + c, where c is a complex number known as the perturbation constant. My talk will detail computational approaches to estimating and visualizing the Julia set of this map. I will also discuss strategies used to estimate periodic points of the map which are then used to explore the relation between c and the maximization of a particular potential.

Samuel Young
The abstract commensurator of a group, Comm(G), generalizes the notion of the automorphism group Aut(G). We study a new variation of Comm(F_2), which embeds in Comm(F_2), which we show is not locally residually finite.
There will be pizza and refreshments!