Students from four groups at Williams’ 2018 SMALL REU (commutative algebra, knot theory, random matrix theory, and tropical geometry) attended MAA’s Mathfest Conference in Denver, Colorado from August 1 to August 4 to present on their research. Congratulations to the six students who received an MAA Outstanding Student Paper Session Presentation Award!
Those students and their talks were:
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Ivan Aidun: Divisorial and Geometric Gonality
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Mira Gordin: Non-Hermitian Anderson Operators and their Spectral Properties
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Or Eisenberg and Yi Wang: Hyperbolic virtual knots
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Anya Michaelsen: Noetherian Rings with Unusual Prime Ideal Structures
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Julie Yuan: Graphs of Gonality Three
You can see all the talk abstracts and awards here. Check out more Mathfest photos below: