Rogers Prize Winners

First Prize: Daniel Sheremeta '24, "Peg Solitaire on Graphs with Large Diameter."

First Prize: Ivan Specht '24, "Statistical Inference of Finite-Population Galton-Watson Branching Processes."

Honorable Mention: Dora Woodruff '24, "Game of Cones: Jeu de Taquin and Simplicial Complexes." 

First Prize: Madison Shirazi '23, "Finding Balance in Chaos: Approximating Orthogonal Polynomials on Julia Sets."

Second Prize: Silvia Cascuberta Puig '23, "Finding Simple Models of Complex Objects: From Regularity Lemmas to Algorithmic Fairness."

Honorable Mention: for a group presentation by: Peter Chon '25, William Hu '24, Mark Pekala '24, and Janna Withrow '23, "Lean into Theorem Proving." 

First Prize: Rebecca Saul '22, "Factoring and the Quadratic Sieve."

Second Prize: Forrest Flesher '22, "From Number Theory to the Solar System."

Honorable Mention: Jessica Shand '22, "Patterns, Play, and Processes: Sounding Topological Graph Theory."

First Prize: Hanna Mularczyk '21, "The Combinatorics of Rhombic Polygon Tilings."

First Prize: Richard Xu '22, "Elliptic Curves and a Problem 95% of People Cannot Solve."

First Prize: Kim Nguyen '21, "Hidden Markov Models as modern day map-makers."

Second Prize: Savvy Raghuvanshi '22, "Strong law of small numbers."

Second Prize: Lucy Wang '20, "Though the Ultrafilter: Dictators and God."

First Prize: Mularczyk, Hanna Lynn, "The Banach-Tarski Paradox."

First Prize: Cameron Krulewski '19, "Vector Bundles and K-Theory."

First Prize: Rohil Prasad '18, "Introduction to Morse Theory."

Honorable Mention: Frid Fu  (visiting student), "Surgery with Poincaré manifold as an application."

Honorable Mention:Xavier Gonzalez '18, "The Leech Lattice."

First Prize: Jennifer Hu '18, "Say What?!: Proving the Non-Context-Freeness of Natural Language."

First Prize: Julian Salazar '17, "Algebraic Functions and the Representability Zoo."

First Prize: Hannah Larson '17, "Partition Party."

First Prize: Nat Mayer, "Volume Densities of Hyperbolic Knots."

First Prize: Ashvin Swaminathan '17, "Arboreal Galois Representations."

First Prize: Xiaoyu He '16, "The parity problem in sieve theory."

First Prize: Barry Tng, "Integral geometry and the size of a cookie."

First Prize: Akhil Mathew '14, "Galois groups."

First Prize: Isabel Vogt '14, "What are formal groups and what are they good for?"

First Prize: Lucia Mocz, "What is the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture?"

First Prize: Akhil Mathew, "Finite fields and topology."

First Prize: Dmitri Gekhtman, "Bug Dynamics on Manifolds."

First Prize: Benjamin Edward Dozier '12, "The Julia and Fatou sets of a polynomial map."

First Prize: Caitlin King Stanton '14 , "The Euler Characteristic."

First Prize: Adrian Sanborn, "Scaling Dimensions with Fractal Curves."

Second Prize: Eric Larson, "An Inequality Involving the Perimeter and Curvature of Plane Curve."

Second Prize: Akhil Mathew, "Translation-Invariant Binary Representations."

First Prize: Zhou Fan, "Random Matrices, Catalan Numbers, and Wigner's Semicircle Law."

First Prize: Dmitri Vaintrob, "1+2+3+ ... = -1/12: Values of the Zeta Function at Negative Integers."

First Prize: Zachary Abel, "Hinged dissections exist."

Second Prize: Laura Starkston, "Khovanov homology."

First Prize: Scott Kominers, "C = 15."

Second Prize: Christian Zamora Jaen, "Fermat's Last Theorem."

First Prize: Robin Walters, "Generalizations of the Hexagonal Honeycomb Theorem."

Second Prize: Gerardo Con Diaz, "Cutting and Pasting Doughnuts: Three Ways of Constructing Lens Spaces."

Honorable Mention: Alison Miller, "Exp(pi*Sqrt(163)) and Friends."

First Prize: Gerardo Con Diaz, "Trefoils on your Shoes,Knots, Surfaces and Matrices."

First Prize: Igor Rapinchuk, "Elliptic Curves and Mordell's Theorem."

First Prize: Inna Zakharevich, "Homotopy and Simplicial Sets."

First Prize: Ronen Mukamel, "Four Things You Can Do in the Hyperbolic Plane that Your Parents Couldn't in the Euclidean."

Second Prize: Mike Hamburg, "Compass and Straightedge Constructions for Projectile and Orbital Motion."

Second Prize: Adam Levine, "Word-Hyperbolic Coxeter Groups."

First Prize: Corina Patrascu, "Computing order statistics in the Farey sequence."

Second Prize: Jonathan Bloom, "The Local Structure of Smooth Maps of Manifolds."

First Prize: Andrew Cotton, "Holomorphic curves and minimal surfaces."

First Prize: James Fowler, "Loves Me, Loves Me Not: what you shouldn't do after you dissect a Square into Identical Triangles."

First Prize: Alexander Daniel-Joseph Healy '02, "Zero Knowledge Proofs."

First Prize: Lionel Timothy Levine '02, "Clifford Algebras and Vector Fields on Spheres."

First Prize: Lionel Levine '02, "Iterates of a Spiky Function."

Second Prize: Dan Lee, "Spinors in Mathematics."

Second Prize: Lauren Williams, "Effecient Methods for Almost Proving Things: Techniques from Theoretical Computer Science."

First Prize: Anna Medvedovsky, "Dirichlet's Theorem on Primes in Arithmetic Progressions."

Second Prize: Lauren Williams, "Baby You Can Drive My Car: A Talk on Parking Functions."