MIT PRIMES/Art of Problem Solving
CROWDMATH 2017: Graph Algorithms & Applications
Lead Mentors
Jesse GenesonJesse Geneson graduated from Harvard in 2010, received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from MIT in 2015, and is currently a postdoc in the mathematical neuroscience lab at PSU. He has mentored ten research projects at MIT including the winner of the 2014 Siemens individual competition, fifth prize in the 2012 Siemens team competition, and third prize in the 2011 Siemens individual competition. Results of these projects were published in Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, and Discrete Mathematics. |
Shen-Fu TsaiShen-Fu Tsai is a software engineer. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In his spare time, he likes to work on mathematical and algorithmic problems that involve less actual programming than his day job. His amateur interest in mathematics include combinatorics and graph theory. Though not a student anymore, he participated in CROWDMATH 2016 to discuss interesting matrix exclusion problems with other participants. |
Advisors
Pavel EtingofPavel Etingof is Professor of Mathematics in the Mathematics Department at MIT. Pavel received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University. Pavel's research interests are noncommutative algebra, representation theory, and mathematical physics. Pavel led mathematics research programs for high school students at the Clay Mathematics Research Academy, the Research Science Institute (RSI), and SPUR at MIT. He co-founded MIT PRIMES program and has served as its Chief Research Advisor since 2010. Pavel's students have won multiple top awards at national science competitions for high school students. When Pavel isn't doing math, he enjoys mycology and can be found identifying, collecting, and cooking mushrooms for fun(gi). |
Slava GerovitchSlava Gerovitch is the Director of Research and Reading Programs in the Mathematics Department at MIT. He co-founded MIT PRIMES program in 2010 and directed RSI and SPUR programs since 2012, and DRP and UROP+ programs since 2014. His research interests include social and cultural history of mathematics, cybernetics, astronautics, and computing. His current research project is on the culture of abstract algebra in the second half of the twentieth century. Slava holds two doctoral degrees, in history and social study of science and technology from MIT and in philosophy of science from the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has taught at MIT since 1999, but when nobody is watching, writes poetry! |
Tanya KhovanovaTanya Khovanova is a Lecturer at MIT and a freelance mathematician. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Moscow State University in 1988. At that time her research interests were in representation theory, integrable systems, super-string theory and quantum groups. Her research was interrupted by a period of employment in industry, where she became interested in algorithms, complexity theory, cryptography and networks. Several years ago she resigned from industry to return to research. Her current interests lie in recreational mathematics including puzzles, magic tricks, combinatorics, number theory, geometry, and probability theory. Her website is located at tanyakhovanova.com, her highly popular math blog at blog.tanyakhovanova.com and her Number Gossip website at numbergossip.com. Tanya Khovanova works with gifted children in a variety of settings. At the AMSA Charter School in Massachusetts, she coaches the math competition team. She also mentors and supervises high school students who want to do research in mathematics. She works with the two most successful programs that focus on helping kids do research: RSI and PRIMES-MIT. |
Jeremy CopelandJeremy joined AoPS in 2009. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2006 and was a CLE Moore Instructor at MIT from 2006 to 2009. He is currently the Online School Director at AoPS. He once specialized in turning hard problems in geometry, algebra, and mathematical physics into easy problems in combinatorics and graph theory. Now he specializes in helping to redistribute mathematics from brilliant teachers to brilliant students. He gets his signs right 50 percent of the time, struggles with problems that lack symmetry, and secretly believes that every problem somehow reduces to the Chinese Remainder Theorem. |
Richard RusczykArt of Problem Solving was founded by Richard Rusczyk in 2003 to create interactive educational opportunities for avid math students. Richard Rusczyk is one of the co-authors of the Art of Problem Solving classic textbooks, author of Art of Problem Solving's Introduction to Algebra, Introduction to Geometry, and Precalculus textbooks, co-author of Art of Problem Solving's Intermediate Algebra and Prealgebra, one of the co-creators of the Mandelbrot Competition, and a past Director of the USA Mathematical Talent Search. He was a participant in National MATHCOUNTS, a three-time participant in the Math Olympiad Summer Program, and a USA Mathematical Olympiad winner (1989). He received the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions Paul Erdös Award in 2014. He graduated from Princeton University in 1993, and worked as a bond trader for D.E. Shaw & Company for four years. AoPS marks Richard's return to his vocation - educating motivated students. |