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Math Slam

Math Slam is our yearly Spring contest in which participants conduct 10-minute presentations to compete for a small monetary prize.

Spring 2026

Speaker
Kushagri SharmaExtended Persistence: A Topological Analysis of Surfactant Protrusions
Michelle BakerApplying Acceleration to Krylov subspace methods
Jack ChouA positive combinatorial formula for the double Edelman-Greene coefficients
Arya MemanaSzeg\H{o} Type Limit Theorems in Analytic Function Spaces
Aritram DharNew Borwein-type Conjectures
Satyanath Howladar3 manifolds groups suspends into wedge sum of Spheres and Moore spaces!
Lodewyk Jansen van RensburgA Spectral Radius Formula

Judges: Dr. Michael Jury, Dr. Sergei Pilyugin, and Dr. Hubert Wagner

1st Place: Jack Chou

2nd Place: Satyanath Howladar

3rd Place: Lodewyk Jansen van Rensburg

Spring 2024

Speaker
Gillian Carr
Matt Dallas
Nirjal Shrestha
Adam Gregory
Avi Mukhopadhyay
Tuyen Pham
Justin Young

Judges: Dr. Chamila Gamage, Dr. Michael Jury, and Dr. Tracy Stepien

1st Place: Adam Gregory

2nd Place: Matt Dallas

3rd Place: Avi Mukhopadhyay

Spring 2023

  • The speakers with judges Dr. Dana Bartošová and Dr. Michael Jury.

Speaker's NameTitle
Fatima AkinolaOn Hamilton Cycle Decompositions of Complete Multipartite Graphs Which Are Both Cyclic and Symmetric
Himanshu YadavEngineering Innovation: Applying TDA to Document and Topic Embedding to Identify Persistent Gaps in Scientific Literature
Hannah AndersonModel of Glioblastoma-immune Dynamics Incorporating Immunotherapy
Hayden HunterOn Higher Dimensional Milnor Frames
Aritram DharInterplay between the world of P and Q
Palak AroraOptimal Approximation Problems for Commutative and Noncommutative Polynomials
Puja PandeyOn the Equivalence of Statistical Distances for Discrete Log-concave Probability Measures
Xiaochen DuanAnalysis of a Droop-type Chemostat Model with Wall Growth
Joshua ArroyoKraśkiewicz-Hecke insertion

Judges: Dr. Dana Bartošová and Dr. Michael Jury

1st Place: Aritram Dhar

2nd Place: Puja Pandey

3rd Place: Hannah Anderson, Himanshu Yadav (tie)

From left to right: Aritram Dhar, Puja Pandey, Hannah Anderson, Himanshu Yadav