2019 USA Regional Semifinalists for Mathematics
The following 7 student groups are for the final demo/presentation at Harvard University.
We are pleased to inform the following student groups are the semifinalists for the 2019 Yau High School Science Award in the Math category. We cordially invite the semifinalists to participate in the semifinal round of the competition. The semifinal presentations will take place on Saturday, November 2, 2019 at the Harvard Science Center (Address: 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138).
| # | School Name | Student Group | Instructor | Paper Title |
| 1 | Jesuit High School | Rupert Li | Yibo Gao | Compatible Recurrent Identities of the Sandpile Group and Maximal Stable Configurations |
| 2 | The Taft School | Xiaohan Ye | Joseph Zipoli | On the Finiteness of a Special Family of Polynomials |
| 3 | Abel Academy (will attend Stanford Online High School in fall 2019.) | Espen Slettnes | Jesse Geneson | Minimal Embedding Dimensions of Rectangle k-Visibility Graphs |
| 4 | Phillips Exeter Academy | Lucy Cai | Damin Wu | A Study of the Carathéodory Conjecture through the Perturbation of a Rotationally Symmetric Surface |
| 5 | The Roxbury Latin School | Christopher Zhu | Pakawut Jiradilok | Enumerating Permutations and Rim Hooks Characterized by Double Descent Sets |
| 6 | Choate Rosemary Hall | Ziyan Lei | Shuliang Bai | Ricci-flat 5-regular graphs |
| 7 | Westminster School | Michelle Wu | Steve Miller | Biases in First and Second Moments of the Fourier Coefficients in One- and Two-Parameter Families of Elliptic Curves |