News 2014-2015

Here we share some of the accomplishments of our CCS math students.

•  Lingyu Du got an offer for an internship in China CITIC Bank.
  

• Jacob Fauman will be participating in the  UCLA REU next summer.
  

• Zhixing Guo will be participating in the Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Toronto, Canada.
  

• Mark Rychnovsky is one of the sixteen California students who has been granted the prestigious Barry Goldwater scholarship this year.
  

• Jeremy Irvin has got offers for an internship next summer from two excellent companies: Microsoft (to be a Program Manager) and Pixar (to be Data Science Intern). He has decided to accept the offer from  Microsoft.
  

• Yingying Wang will be participating in the Conference Women and Mathematics, organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies in May. Also, she will spend the summer working as a counselor for the program PROMYS (Program in mathematics for young scientists).
  

• Mark Rychnovsky will attend the UC Berkeley 'Geometry and Topology' RTG Summer Research Program for Undergraduates during the Summer.
• Mark Rychnosvky presented the poster: "Colored Strongly Regular and Colored Quasi-Random Graphs", in the Joint Mathematics Meetings this year, in San Antonio, TX.
  

•  AnaSophia Eiseman presented her poster "Graph Products and Quasi-Strong Regularity" at the UC Leads Symposium at UC Merced  on March 21st.
  

• Kevin Malta has been accepted into the UCSB 5 year BS/MS in Computer Science as a double major math-computer science.
  

• Chloe Avery and Talon Stark gave the talk: "A really great presentation... or Knot" in the Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, held in Thousands Oaks, on March 14, 2015.
  
• Richard Carini, Nikola Kapamadzin, and Connor Lemp gave the talk: "The world's NP-hardest game" in the Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, held in Thousands Oaks, on March 14, 2015.
• Nicolas Geis, Thien Hoang, Adam Reevesman, and Mi Yu gave the talk: "The game of Slife" in the Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, held in Thousands Oaks, on March 14, 2015.
• Taom Sakal gave the talk: "Sequential Dynamical Systems and the iterated phase space" in the Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, held in Thousands Oaks, on March 14, 2015.

• Sarafina Ford and Taom Sakal have been accepted into the UCSB Math REU program to do research for 8 weeks next summer together with other 10 students from other universities in the country.
  

• In the spring quarter, our Life After CCS speaker was Matthew Adams.
  

• Naomi Burkhart will start the Master's in Mathematics here at UCSB in the Fall.
  

• Mark Rychnovsky has published his first research paper in a refereed journal.
  

• Zhixing Guo has been awarded a Small Research Grant for Spring 2015.
  

• Benjamin Chang got an internship in WORKDAY, a company in the Bay area, during Summer 2015.
  

• In the winter quarter, our Life After CCS speaker was CCS alumni Jeffrey Danciger, now assistant professor at University of Texas, Austin.
  

• Ashton Meginnis has been admitted to the PhD program on Aeronautic Engineering at Stanford. Congratulations, Ashton!
  

• Zehui Xiang and Jie Yan have been awarded a Small Research Grant for Winter 2015.