2023-2024
2024 UG Mathematics Awards Presentation
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Wednesday, May 22nd in Swift 107 at 5p
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Featured Speaker: Bjorn Poonen, MIT
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Title and Abstract
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Undecidability in Number Theory : Hilbert's tenth problem asked for an algorithm that, given a multivariable polynomial equation with integer coefficients, would decide whether there exists a solution in integers. Around 1970, Matiyasevich, building on earlier work of Davis, Putnam, and Robinson, showed that no such algorithm exists. But the answer to the analogous question with integers replaced by rational numbers is still unknown and there is not even agreement among experts as to what the answer should be.
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2024 UG Mathematics Award Winners
Robert R. Welland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics
- Jiahan Jiang
Senior Career Award in Mathematics
- Aaron Lu, Carmen Jackson, Brennan Jackson
Junior Career Award in Mathematics
- Leo Chang, Yung Chi Li
Award for Excellence in Mathematics by a First-Year Student
- Harry Wang, William Bergman, Rithik Khanna, Nicole Hampton, Evan Gerns, Kevin Hu, Zach Long, Rebecca Pae, Aiden Novick, Will Bruner, Jack Thielen, Penny Orwang, Bill Zhu
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Mathematical Life
- Leo Chang
Award for High Achievement in the William Lowell Putnam Competition
- Eliseu Filho, Yung Chi Li
Award for Excellence as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
- Jiahan Jiang
Undergraduate Teaching Service Award
- Jiahan Jiang, Yao Xiao