Here are some very brief introductions to our program visitors for this July. We will learn more about them during the program and of course when we meet them!
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Dr. Frank Morgan is Atwell Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus at Williams College. He is one of the authors of the first breakthrough paper we will learn about, the proof of the double bubble conjecture. In addition to being an outstanding researcher, Dr. Morgan is a prolific mentor and expositor; check out his webpage for lots more details!
Eve Parrott is a rising senior at Livingston High School. She began working with Dr. Morgan at the MathPath summer camp. She has conducted two projects on isoperimetric problems, and the most recent one resulted in this paper.
Harun Khan is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Stanford University. In summer of 2021, Harun took Cohn’s proof about square Fibonacci numbers and encoded it in the Lean Theorem Prover. He describes his work in this paper.
Dr. Bernadette Faye is a number theorist and a lecturer in mathematics at Universite Alioune Diop de Bambey. Her research investigates diophantine equations related to recursive sequences. For instance: what repdigit numbers (like 333 or 7777) occur in the Fibonacci or Lucas sequences?
Dr. Maia Karpovich is an Artificial Intelligence Researcher. In September 2023, Dr. Karpovich verified that the 201107th Fibonacci number is prime; it is the largest currently-known prime Fibonacci number.
Dr. Emanuel Milman is Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion. Dr. Joe Neeman is a member of the Programming Languages and Compilers Technical Group at Tweag I/O. They collaborated to solve the triple and quadruple bubble problems, announced first in 2022 and reported on in this Quanta magazine article.
Dr. Eviatar Procaccia is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at the Technion. His doctoral student Dr. Parker Duncan is currently a math postdoc at Queen Mary University of London. And Dr. Procaccia’s master’s student Rory O’Dwyer is a PhD student in physics at Stanford University. The three have collaborated on three papers (so far!) about bubble problems where instead of Euclidean geometry, alternative geometries like taxicab geometry are used instead.
Justin Lanier 