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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!

I came to City College as an international student about two years ago. I can perfectly remember the first day at CCNY where I struggled with the smallest things such as finding the classroom I was located in for that day. From that day, I see myself continuing my PhD at the University of Connecticut, where I will continue my studies in the Statistics Department.

Looking back at these past years, when I put the memories I have together, it is clear that I have been very lucky. I have had the privilege to work with amazing professors, have helpful friends, and overall been surrounded by great and welcoming people.
I am beyond grateful for all of my professors whom I would like to say thank you to the following people

Professor Shirshendu Chatterjee who was my statistics professor and mentor in the summer research project. Thank you, for giving me a hand when I needed it the most! The patience you possess and trust you give were two qualities that made my journey with you an honorable and important one. You believed that I had potential even when you struggled to understand my ideas, since my communication was extremely poor. Your assistance and dedication inspired me to work even harder.

Professor Zajj Daugherty - Thank you for your support that has lasted since the first day of being in your class all the way to giving me amazing advice you gave for the PhD application.

A warm thank you to Professor Blair Davey, Professor Bianca Santoro, and Professor Jack Hanson. Thank you so much for your recommendations, advice, and for being such an inspiration to me. Honestly, I feel since I am now a part of the academy, I look up to each of you as a role model.
I also want to thank Professor Thea Pignataro and Professor Stanley Ocken for believing and giving me the opportunity to be a lecturer in the Math Department. I will keep this with me throughout my life as one of the most valuable experiences I have been through.

Thank you so much to Jason Redman for informing me about multiple crucial moments including a scholarship, job opportunities, the teaching process and more. Jason, I truly admire the patience that you possess. When I kept asking you an extensive number of questions each day you always calmly explained, even if it took multiple tries for me to understand it. You are definitely one of the people that made my life easier at CCNY.

A great thank you for George Braithwaite who is one of the nicest people that I have met in my life. You have always been so helpful and so positive! According to George, he is like this because he was born where negative numbers were not invented. You are undeniably an amazing person that I will miss so extremely much.

Finally, a huge thank you to my friends. Thank you for your advice and collaboration. I wish you only the best!