Marco Troper Summer Scholars

Organizer and mentors

• Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Berkeley), organizer

• Tom Stoiber (UC Berkeley), head mentor

• Xianzhe Li (UC Berkeley), mentor

• Rui Wang (UC Berkeley), mentor

• Andrei Mandelshtam (Harvard University), mentor

2026 Participants

• Adrian Fry

• Austin Lin

• William Nguyen

• Jason Cheng

• Kevin Huang

• Diego Jimenez

• Milo Jacob Robertson

• Ryan Zhou Lopes

2026 Research projects and outcomes

Preprints and publication links will be added as they become available. You can also look forward to meeting our students at JMM 2027

• Adrian Fry and Austin Lin. Diophantine Approximation and Interpolation in the Unit Disk. Mentor: Rui Wang.  Slides

• William Nguyen and Jason Cheng. Trimming Return Words of Irrational Rotations. Mentor: Tom Stoiber.

• Kevin Huang and Diego Jimenez. Classification and Periodicity in Ulam Words. Mentor: Andrei Mandelshtam. Slides

• Milo Jacob Robertson and Ryan Zhou Lopes. Generalized Random Hill Equations, Growth Rates of Transition Matrices and Random Matrices. Mentor: Xianzhe Li.