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Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals On-Campus crime is a leading issue in US Colleges, a serious concern for parents and a difficult challenge for the college authorities. US Department of Education captures d…
Mathematics
Second Award
In this project, Ricci flow and normalized Ricci flow were studied in a discrete 3-dimensional setting, where the manifold of interest is the boundary of a 4-simplex. This manifold is the di…
Mathematical Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals In this project, we prove certain properties about the Rado Graph. In order to do that, we first consider a simpler case of the graph, a modified version, and prove that it'…
Mathematics
Third Award
Purpose: Given a prime p and polynomial f, how many pairs (x,y) are there such that y^a-x^b*f(x) is a multiple of p? Equivalently, how many rational points lie on a superelliptic curve? Answ…
Mathematical Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this research is to develop an algorithm that can analyze and accurately recognize the speaker's emotion from human speech using machine learning. This is not on…
Mathematics
Our purpose is to produce high security encryption algorithms by using the irregularity of decimal expansions. Different from other methods, we make use of the irregularity of irrational num…
Mathematical Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Determine if processes of natural selection can be applied to non-biological or simulated entities to produce nearly optimal solutions to a variety of computationally hard p…
Mathematical Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The combinatorial solution to the recurrence relation a_{n} =a_{n-1} +a_{n-3} +a_{n-4} leads to the trend, a_{2n} =f_{n}^2 , where f_{n} is the n-th term in the Fibonacci se…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Malnutrition is prevalent issue in this world: it accounts for 58 percent of all mortality. As a result, my project aims to solve the problem of malnutrition using the metho…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
The theory of Lie groups and algebras is an important and developing part of mathematics. Lie groups and algebras occur in different areas of science such as quantum physics, mathematical ge…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
Problem of Apollonius is a famous geometric problem. Apollonius of Perga posed it in the 3d century BC. The statement of the problem: construct (by straightedge and compass) a circle that is…
Mathematics
We address n-sided dice whose face values lie between 1 and n and whose faces sum to n(n+1)/2. We tackle the problem of generating n-sided dice by developing an algorithm to generate the int…
Mathematics
While studying the Second row (the second degree equation) surfaces with the method of coordinates we have noticed that in the Canonical system while we were cutting the surface with paralle…
Mathematics
Millennium Problems are problems in mathematics that were stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. One of these problems is related to the complexity of algorithms. The set of algor…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Air pollution is a concerning global issue with increasing public awareness and serious health consequences. As air quality and smog levels fluctuate throughout a city withi…
Mathematics
In the modern age, public-key cryptography has become a vital component for secure online communication. To implement these cryptosystems, rapid primality testing is necessary in order to ge…
Mathematics
Faked company payments and fraudulent schemes such as Ponzi schemes steal over $3.7 trillion from innocent consumers every year, with auditing methods significantly lagging behind the increa…
Mathematical Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to study the statistical properties of the iterations of tan(x). Methods/Materials Laptop computer with Fortran compiler and Grace. Ran pro…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
This project takes a different approach to meteorological forecasting by investigating underlying patterns in local weather fluctuations and attempting to find a connection between these phe…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project uses mathematical concepts, specifically theoretical probability, to create an optimal search model for a target. Computer programs in C++ are also used to perf…
Mathematical Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to create 2 things: 1) a low-cost lens that attaches to the back of a smartphone and allows laypeople to take a picture of the back of the eye and 2) an alg…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to build an algorithm that can detect an orange disease with an accuracy of more than 90% and have a processing time of less than 10 seconds per tree. The soluti…
Mathematics
Third Award
From the world wide web to social networks, big data often take the form of graphs. It is important to be able to generate realistic random graphs in order to analyze the properties of real…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to apply artificial neural networks (ANN) to the prediction of river gauge height two days in the future at a specific station in order…
Mathematics
Second Award
Number theory is a field where you study integers and the way they relate to each other. We look at a section of number theory called multiplicative functions. These functions act as machine…
Mathematics
This paper provides a generalization of the Calkin-Wilf tree. The Calkin-Wilf tree is an infinite binary tree in which all nodes are labeled by reduced positive rationals and each reduced po…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Teaching a computer to learn to classify handwritten letters requires a complex computing model capable of learning the structure of letters rather than simply following a s…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Traditional node-link diagrams for visualizing networks do not scale as networks become larger and are nicknamed "hairballs". To address the need for the visualization of la…
Mathematics
In the digital age, more and more data needs to be transmitted securely, making cryptographic functions increasingly important. At the basis of all cryptographic functions is a pseudo-random…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
We study the distortion of an optimal embedding of a perfect binary tree into a Euclidean space with a fixed number of dimensions. The distortion is a characteristic of the embedding, descri…