A group of students mentored by Professor Adam Sheffer (Math) won a Young Researchers’ Award from Computational Geometry. The award is given for a paper whose authors are under 35 years old. “This is an unusual case,” Sheffer said. “The authors of this paper were all undergrads, so probably not even 25 years old.”
There were 14 students altogether from schools around the country. The paper they wrote and the list of authors can be found here.
The students were part of the Polymath Jr Program, which Sheffer spearheads. The program provides students an opportunity to do math research. Recruitment efforts are focused on women and other underrepresented groups, and hundreds of students take part each year. Each project is mentored by a professor and graduate students. Sheffer just recently won a $47,433 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the program.
