REU mini conference
Tuesday July 21, 2026 at Yale University
Tuesday July 21, 2026 at Yale University
Schedule
11 arrival to LOM (12 hillhouse ave)
11:10 - 11:35 Session 1 in LOM classrooms
11:35 - 12:00 Session 2 in LOM classrooms
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch in LOM classrooms
1:00 - 2:00 colloquium in Davies Auditorium (Jeff Brock, Yale)
2:10 - 2:35 Session 3 in LOM classrooms
2:35 - 3:00 Session 4 in LOM classrooms
3:00 - cookies and goodbyes in LOM lobby
SESSION 1 (11:10 - 11:35)
The Riordan group and RNA applications (LOM 205)
Victoria Spriggs, Lauryn Shepard, Ifeoluwa Olorunlogbon, Milan Tenn
Steinberg module of the braid group (LOM 206)
Mikayla Ruffin, Itamar Olmert, Gideon Holt Heltzer, Evan Budd
Ranks and Moments of (Hyper)elliptic Curve Families (LOM 214)
Lucas Chen, Joshua Im, Devayani Pradhan, Yuval Amit, Christopher Housholder
Sensor sensitivity in several setting (LOM 215)
Christopher Housholder, Mateo Palomares, Nico Alberti, Lillian Cao
SESSION 2 (11:35 - 12:00)
The intersection of vertex domination-critical graphs and edge domination-critical graphs (LOM 205)
Makenna Howell, Presha Goel, Sophie Yinuo Zheng, Yasmina Traoré
Graph-based Manifold Learning (LOM 206)
Cassidy All, Jeffrey Lee, Christine Gao, William Dai, Gabriel Escobedo
On Volumes of Intermediate Dimension Simplices in Finite Fields (LOM 214)
Joshua Khan, Lucas Chen, Naida Gavranović, Connor Yau
Generating and generalizing MSTD sets through Markov processes (LOM 215)
Frank He, Karol Daniewski, Emily Upton, Azmera Gebre
SESSION 3 (2:10 - 2:35)
Optimal Tverberg with Tolerance and its Hyperplane Variants (LOM 206)
Aleksey Lopez
Rainbow-free Colorings of Z_{p^2} for x+y=z^2 (LOM 214)
Emily Codere, Lucas Danburg, Ian Lundy, Amy Wang
Lattice Walks, Patterns, and Riordan Arrays (LOM 215)
Milan Tenn
SESSION 4 (2:35 - 3:00)
Distinct Distances in l_p and related norms (LOM 205)
Lillian MacArthur
Activated Random Walk with Shifted Driving (LOM 206)
Antigone Stark
The asymptotic behavior of the ropelength of knots (LOM 214)
Sebastian Caillault
Activated Random Walk on the Complete Graph (LOM 215)
Clarice Andorno