2018 FUSRP Midterm Presentations

August 1, 2018, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

Students in the Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program will have 10 minutes to present an update on the progress they've made so far and where they aim to be by the end of the program.

There will be 15 minutes for questions and discussion after each presentation.

Schedule

Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
08:30 to 08:45	Registration
08:45 to 09:00	Welcome
09:00 to 09:30	Project 1: Big Data Information Extraction: Generating Seeded Named Entity Dictionary Gian Carlo Alix, Yufeng Li, and Mingxuan Wang
09:30 to 10:00	Project 2: Biomedical Data Analysis in Transformed Spaces Kevin Hu, Ilia Kirillov, Lauren Liao, and Hedi Xia
10:00 to 10:30	Project 4: Control and Estimation of Shallow Water Waves Macdonald Carden, Heather Leitch, and Colton Ragland
10:30 to 10:45	Break
10:45 to 11:15	Project 5: Development and Evaluation of a Hybrid Symplectic Integrator for Planetary Systems Emily Eckels, Emma Holmes, and Michelle Lau
11:15 to 11:45	Project 6: Discrete-Event Systems Model of a System's Ability to Protect Secrets Ende Jin, Feiyang Lin, and Tianchen Tang
11:45 to 12:15	Project 7: Graphs, Chromatic Symmetric Functions, and Positivity Joshua Kazdan, Larissa Kroell, Sofia Martinez Alberga, Oleksii Melnyk, and Alexander Tenenbaum
12:15 to 13:00	Lunch
13:00 to 13:30	Project 8: Model Theory and Free Probability Hymn Chan, Rodolfo Montes De Oca Osornio, Ronan O'Gorman, Waleed Qaisar, Johnson Tan, and Huy Tran
13:30 to 14:00	Project 9: Monte Carlo Simulation of the Impact of Distributional Properties on the Effectiveness of Cluster Boosted Regression Chun Fang Cheng, Yunjing Li, Zeyu Wei, and
14:00 to 14:30	Project 10: Morphological Operations on Discrete Surfaces Yan Sheng Ang, Silvia González Sellán, and Jacob Kesten
14:30 to 15:00	Project 11: Noninvasive Quantification of Brain Positron Emission Tomography Radioligand Binding Jing Ouyang, Xiaoying Shi, and Quinten Tupker
15:15 to 15:45	Project 12: Optimal Hedging Strategies and Client Classification Zhaoran Hou, Tangling Li, and Faner Lin
15:30 to 15:45	Break
15:45 to 16:15	Project 13: The Symmetric Rendezvous Problem on a Triangle Nicolas Bryenton
16:15 to 16:45	Project 14: Unsupervised Learning Used in Dynamic Customer Journey Bernardo Bianco Prado, Xiayimei Han, and Jiayu Li
16:45 to 17:00	Wrap up

Registered Participants

Name	Affiliation
Gian Carlo Alix	York University
Yan Sheng Ang	National University of Singapore
Bernardo Bianco Prado	University of Minnesota
Nicolas Bryenton	University of Toronto
Macdonald Carden	Cornell University
Hymn Chan	Imperial College London
Chun Fang Cheng	University of British Columbia
Emily Eckels	Oxford College of Emory University
Silvia González Sellán	University of Oviedo
Xiayimei Han	Vanderbilt University
Zhaoran Hou	University of Toronto
Kevin Hu	New York University
Ende Jin	University of Toronto
Joshua Kazdan	Stanford University
Jacob Kesten	Rice University
Ilia Kirillov	Moscow State University
Emma Kroell	McMaster University
Larissa Kroell	University of Innsbruck
Michelle Lau	Imperial College London
Heather Leitch	Queen's University Belfast
Lauren Liao	University of California, San Diego
Jiayu Li	University of Toronto
Faner Lin	University of Rochester
Feiyang Lin	Harvey Mudd College
Tangling Li	University of Toronto
Yufeng Li	McMaster University
Yunjing Li	University of Toronto
Sofia Martinez Alberga	University of California, Riverside
Oleksii Melnyk	University of Oxford
Rodolfo Emilio Montes de Oca Osornio	University of Guanajuato
Ronan O'Gorman	Trinity College Dublin
Jing Ouyang	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Waleed Qaisar	University of Toronto
Colton Ragland	University of Texas at Austin
Xiaoying Shi	University of California, Los Angeles
Tianchen Tang	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Johnson Tan	McMaster University
Alexander Tenenbaum	University of Toronto
Huy Tran	Harvard University
Quinten Tupker	University of Cambridge
Mingxuan Wang	Texas A&M University
Zeyu Wei	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hedi Xia	University of California, Santa Barbara