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Students and colleagues,

Professors Johanna G. Neslehova & Anush Tserunyan are pleased to announce the Department of Mathematics and Statistics will host its 4th Undergraduate Student Research Conference virtually on ZOOM onÌýAugust 23 from 1PM to 3PM:Ìý

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AGENDA:

Session I (1:00 PM – 1:30 PM):

1. Ria Stevens and Vincent Savignac (Elliot Paquette & Courtney Paquette) Loss Modeling in a Single-Hidden-Layer Neural Network (10 MINUTES).

2. Hugo Latourelle-Vigeant (Elliot Paquette & Courtney Paquette) GD and Large Linear Regression: Concentration and Asymptotics for a Spiked Model.

Breakout rooms with speakers fromÌý1:15 PM – 1:25 PM.

Session II (1:30 PM – 2:00 PM):

1. Konstantinos Christopher Tsiolis (Adam Oberman) Similarity Learning for Image Representations.

2. Sebastian Pacheco (Christian Genest) Rank-Based Hierarchical Clustering and its Applications in Dependence Modelling.

3. Yuexing Niu and Agnes Totschnig (Adrian Vetta) Fair Algorithm (10 MINUTES).

Breakout rooms with speakers from 1:50 PM – 2:00 PM.

Session III (2:00 PM – 2:30 PM):

1. Thierry Poulin (Eyal Goren) Elliptic Curve Based Cryptography and Security.

2. Simon Lapointe (Patrick Allen) Representation, Equivalence, and Classification of Quadratic Forms.

3. William Ghanem (Jacques Hurtubise) Morse Theory and Equivariant Cohomology.

Breakout rooms with speakers from 2:15 PM – 2:25 PM.

Session IV (2:30 PM – 3:00 PM):

1. Reza Habib and Jacob Shkrob (Jessica Lin) Random Walk in a Periodic Environment (10 MINUTES).

2. Viktor Pavlovic (Gantumur Tsogtgerel) Data Assimilation in Fluid Mechanics.

Breakout rooms with speakers from 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM.

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Please support our udergraduates by dropping by and listening to their short presentations!Ìý