PRIMES-Switzerland
Since 2017, PRIMES has assisted the National Centre of Competence in Research "The Mathematics of Physics – SwissMAP" ( NCCR SwissMAP ) in the establishment and operation of PRIMES-Switzerland, a guided math reading program, similar to the math reading section of the MIT PRIMES program. PRIMES-Switzerland is operated in collaboration with the University of Geneva and ETH Zurich.
In 2018-2019, PRIMES-Switzerland held mini-conferences in Geneva and in Zurich, where students presented expository talks on the topic of their study. Program Coordinator Dr. Claude Eicher from MIT attended the mini-conferences and awarded the students certificates of completion of the PRIMES-Switzerland program.
2018 mini-conference in Geneva
- Louis de Forcrand, Kamil Khettabi et Dylan Müller, La loi de la réciprocité quadratique (mentors Charlotte Baumgart et Alan Morier) ( slides )
- Yunshu Ouyang et Juraj Rosinsky, Représentation d'un nombre par une somme de quatres carrés (mentors Charlotte Baumgart et Alan Morier) ( slides )
- Loic Remolif et Kamil Khettabi, The Free Group: an introduction (mentors Solenn Estier and Donald Youmans) ( slides )
- Matthew Meyer et Andres Briones, Programme primes 2018: Le groupe A 5 (mentors Solenn Estier and Donald Youmans) ( slides )
2018 mini-conference in Zurich
- Jonas Hofmann, Kruskal's Greedy Algorithm (mentor Kaloyan Slavov) ( slides )
- Sebastian Brovelli, Cayley's Formula (mentor Kaloyan Slavov) ( slides )
- Lukas Tschudi, Cayley's Formula (mentor Kaloyan Slavov) ( slides )
- Ema Skottova, Karl Robert, and Benjamin Unger, Bipartite Graphs and Matchings (mentor Kaloyan Slavov) ( slides )
- Jianing Yang, Jingling Ding, and Noah Meyer, Generating Functions: Exponential Generating Functions, Catalan Numbers, and the Snake Oil Method (mentor Kaloyan Slavov) ( slides )
- Han-Miru Kim and Susanne Steiner, Planar Graphs: Euler's Formula and the five regular polyhedra (mentor Kaloyan Slavov) ( slides )
2019 mini-conference in Geneva
- Laureline Polli et Matthew Meyer, Noeuds, entrelacs et encadrements (mentor Donald Youmans) ( slides )
- Aman Markar et Louise Cardinaux, Topologie de l'ADN (mentor Donald Youmans) ( slides )