The Mathematics Department awarded two Undergraduate Research Stipends in the year 2019. The winners were Xinxuan Wang and Jinyang Zhou. The students supported by these awards will engage in mathematical research under the direction of a faculty mentor. Their projects are expected to take about three semesters to complete, including at least 4 weeks of full-time effort in Summer 2019.

Xinxuan Wang, Mathematics Major, Class of 2020

Xinxuan Wang will work with Professor Yuan Yuan on the holomorphic isometries from the Poincaré disc. This geometric problem can be reduced to a characterization of unitary matrices which can be approached in theoretical or numerical ways.

Xinxuan is an officer of Pi Mu Epsilon chapter at Syracuse University. In Fall 2018 she gave a Math Club presentation on Fractal Geometry and Hausdorff Dimension. In January 2019 she attended an Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics with support from both NCUWM and the Mathematics department.

Jinyang Zhou, Applied Mathematics Major, Class of 2020

Jinyang Zhou will work with Professor Pinyuen Chen on two-stage designs for selecting the best binomial population in phase II clinical trials. The plan is to provide evidence to show that, in the problem of selecting among k competing treatments, a two-stage design would also reduce the expected sample size required by one-stage design.

Jinyang represented Syracuse University in the 79th William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and was an active participant of Putnam training sessions throughout Fall 2018.