On Friday, April 17th, Pitt math undergraduates presented their research projects in a poster session at Hemingway's, organized by Dr. Jeff Wheeler. There were nine presentations total, including three from the Big Problems course.
Participants were:
Leo Finzi (Math) - The Galois Correspondence of Covering Spaces
Rachel Hoare (Data Science) - What Made Google, Google: the Google PageRank Algorithm
Faith Morrisey (Math) - The Mathematical Magic of Iterative Mirrored Differences
Ari Kalinsky (IE) - Elevator Algorithms
Hailey Latona (Math) - Mathematics in the Nationality Rooms
Nicolai Ezolt (Math) - A Computer Algorithm for Checking a Sufficient Condition for a Solution to the Traveling Salesperson Problem
BIG Problems projects:
'25 BIG Problems: Brendan White - "Pirating” Bases: Optimizing Base Stealing Strategy (our 12th project for the Pittsburgh Pirates)
'26 BIG Problems: Bridget Brinkman, Sophia Fairman, Farah Hendawy, Yun-Chih (Rick) Wu - Roasting the Competition; Analyzing Coffee Futures for 19 Coffee
'26 BIG Problems: Hailey Latona, Elijah Volcsko, Alina Milan, Kalinda Wagner, Emily Shen, Juli Murphy, Sophia Fairman, Josephine Ellis, Luke Kryka, Sam Schohn - The Anchor Behind the Plate: Quantifying the Effects of Catchers’ Game-Calling Skill (our 13th project for the Pittsburgh Pirates)
A special thank you to Pitt Math graduate students that showed their support as well as Pitt Art & Science's Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and CGS, Adriana Helbig.