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Past Polymath Jr Mentors

Jyoti Arora founded Not-A-Bot Studio at Silicone Valley. This company developments mathematical games with Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence.

Jyoti mentored Polymath Jr project in the summers of 2023 and 2024.

Saadeddine Mneimneh (CUNY) researches applications of mathematical modeling and algorithmic techniques to problems such as scheduling, load balancing, and computational biology.

Saad mentored a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2024.

Lisa Berger (Stony Brook) is working in algebraic number theory.

Lisa mentored a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2024.

Zhanar Berikkyzy (Fairfield University) is working in combinatorics. She is the director of the Summer Math Research Program at Fairfield.

Zhanar ran Polymath Jr projects in the summers of 2024, 2022, and 2021.

Daniel P. Johnston (Trinity College) is working in graph theory and combinatorics.

Daniel ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2024.

Jeffrey Meier (Western Washington University) studies manifold theory and knot theory in dimensions three and four.

Jeffrey ran Polymath Jr projects in the summers of 2023 and 2024.

Lisa Naples (Fairfield University) is working in Geometry of measures / Analysis on Metric Spaces.

Lisa ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2024.

Geremias Polanco (Smith College) is working primarily in analytic number theory, but this has led him also into the interplay with algebraic combinatorics.

Geremias ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2024.

Puck Rombach (University of Vermont) is working in structural and extremal graph theory, matroids, algorithms, and complexity.

Puck ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2024.

Daniel van Wyk (Fairfield University) is working in in the research sphere of operator algebras.

Daniel ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2024.

Matthew Junge (CUNY) uses probability to describe natural phenomena. He is a regular mentor for the NYC discrete math REU.

Matt ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2023.

Enrique Treviño (Lake Forest College) is working in analytic and computational number theory. He is an editor in chief of the USAMO.

Enrique ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2021.

Christopher O'Neill (San Diego State University) is O'Neill is working in the intersection of commutative algebra, discrete optimization, and semigroup theory, using methods from algebraic and enumerative combinatorics. He is the co-PI of the SDSU REU.

Christopher ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2021.

Marion Campisi (San Jose State University) is working in geometric topology, 3-dimensional manifolds, knot theory, and gerrymandering.

Marion ran Polymath Jr projects in the summers of 2021 and 2022.

Eric Rowland (Hofstra University) studies arithmetic properties of integer sequences that arise in combinatorial settings. He creates highly popular mathematical YouTube videos and is a regular mentor at the NYC Discrete Math REU.

Eric ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2021.

Ananthnarayan Hariharan (IIT Bombay) is working in Commutative Algebra and Homological Algebra.

Ananth ran a Polymath Jr in the summer of 2022.

Cody Stockdale (Clemson University) works in analysis and particularly in harmonic analysis, operator theory, and complex variables.

Cody ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2022.

Kira Adaricheva (Hofstra University) is working in universal algebra, lattice theory, and convex geometries. She is a regular mentor at the NYC Discrete Math REU.

Kira ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2020.

Eyvindur Palsson (VirginiaTech) works in analysis and combinatorics. He is regularly a mentor at the SMALL REU.

Eyvi ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2023.

Caro Williams-Pierce (University of Maryland) develops innovative approaches to STEM education.

Caro ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2023.

Aditya Potukuchi (York University, Canada) works in Algorithms, Probability, Discrete Mathematics, and the Mathematical Foundations of Data Science.

Aditya ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2023.

Sherry Sarkar (Carnegie Mellon) works on optimization algorithms.

Sherry ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2023.

Mehmet Celik (Texas A&M University-Commerce) works in complex analysis.

Mehmet ran Polymath Jr projects in the summers of 2022 and 2023.

Victor Moll (Tulane University) works in Classical Analysis, Symbolic Computation, Special Functions and Number Theory.

Victor ran Polymath Jr projects in the summers of 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Si Tang (Lehigh University) works in probability

Si ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2023.

Xianyi Zeng (Lehigh University) is interested in the construction, analysis, and application of numerical methods to solve partial differential equations that arise in emerging fields.

Xianyi ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2023.

Luis David Garcia Puente (Colorado College) is interested in Algebraic Statistics, Applied and Computational Algebraic Geometry, and Algebraic Combinatorics.

Luis ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2022.

Natasha Morrison (University of Victoria, Canada) is interested in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics..

Natasha ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2022.

Ferdinand Ihringer (Ghent University) is interested in extremal combinatorics, finite geometry, spectral graph theory, and coding theory.

Ferdinand ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2022.

David Narvaez (VirginiaTech) is interested in formal verification and solving combinatorial problems using constraint satisfaction techniques.

David ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2022.

Seoyoung Kim (University of Basel) is interested in number theory, arithmetic statistics, and graph theory.

Seoyoung ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2021.

Zoran Sunic (Hofstra University) is interested in algorithms, automata, language theory, decidability, complexity, and statistics.

Zoran ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2021.

Vic Reiner (UMN Twin Cities) is interested in combinatorics, and its connections with fields such as algebra, geometry, and topology. He is the long-time director of the Twin Cities REU.

Vic ran a Polymath Jr project in the summer of 2020.