Vacation Scholarships Posters

Vacation Scholars submit a poster with an overview of the research conducted and a review of their time as a Vacation Scholar. See selected posters from previous Scholars.

Vacation Scholars submit a poster with an overview of the research conducted and a review of their time as a Vacation Scholar. Below are selected posters from 2025/2026's Vacation Scholars.

Kirby diagrams for an infinite family of exotic R4’s

The Poster Prize 2025/2026 was awarded to Siddharth Shrivastava for his poster titled "Kirby diagrams for an infinite family of exotic R4’s".

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The runners-up 2025/2026 were awarded to David James,  Oscar Marks and Christopher Tran (alphabetical order of the surnames)

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All Posters

Lydia Colla "Buckling of Epithelial Cells: A Linear Spring Model" (PDF 1.1 MB)
Xiluo Deng "Approximating Mutant Fixation Probabilities in the Intestinal Crypt: From Microscopic Graphs to Macroscopic State Models" (PDF 1.3 MB)
Yi Ding "Generative models for data with measurement error" (PDF 482.6 KB)
Aaron Do "Limitations of using LASSO for feature selection in causal discovery" (PDF 1.3 MB)
Barbod Vahedian Ghaffari "Typical volume law entanglement between particle species at fixed N" (PDF 145.7 KB)
Hazel Gibson "Individualising oral hormonal contraceptive regimes through mathematical modelling" (PDF 443.2 KB)
Jerry Hui "Bloch analysis of wave frequencies in a periodic elastic medium" (PDF 367.8 KB)
David James "Riemann surfaces and the Hurwitz existence problem" (PDF 573.2 KB)
Robert Joseph "Network augmentation for disaster-resilience against geographically correlated failure" (PDF 671.7 KB)
Pinak Joshi "Information Geometry" (PDF 373.7 KB)
Iao Hoi Leong "Multi-resolution Spatial Statistics" (PDF 949.3 KB)
Liam Li "Parameter Inference in Stochastic Biological Systems via Differentiable Programming" (PDF 786.3 KB)
Jingying Liu "Solutions: wave dispersion relation in porous water layers" (PDF 928.9 KB)
Ruichen Liu "Quantum Error-Correcting Codes: Beyond Single-Mode Codes" (PDF 861.5 KB)
Oscar Marks "Noncrossing partitions and representations of type An Dynkin quivers" (PDF 648.0 KB)
Todd McGinley "Algebraic structures and geometric realisations of virtual and welded knots" (PDF 2.7 MB)
Finn Mead "Adam preconditioning for Newton–CG" (PDF 1.5 MB)
Mugilan Murali "2-mode Quantum Error-Detection Code" (PDF 1.8 MB)
Belinda Pitt "Kemeny’s constant: exploring changes to Markov chain connectivity" (PDF 807.2 KB)
Ayan Shah "Bottom rank statistics for brownian reshuffling" (PDF 430.7 KB)
William Shepard "An evaluation of influenza season onset prediction methods" (PDF 1.7 MB)
Siddharth Shrivastava "Kirby diagrams for an infinite family of exotic R4s" (PDF 299.1 KB)
Ryan Stewart "Explorations of the Bethe Ansatz at first-order" (PDF 354.0 KB)
Clarence Teo "Exponential growth rates of directed combs" (PDF 222.5 KB)
Christopher Tran "Permutations avoiding patterns under iterates of the fundamental bijection" (PDF 327.6 KB)
James Walker "Adiabatic eigenstates for fermions from complex structures" (PDF 379.9 KB)
Xuefei Wang "Variance vs. mean: distinguishing heterogeneity from noise" (PDF 831.3 KB)
Yidio Xu "Topological Data Analysis of the US Census: Mapping Clusters and Gaps in Age, Education, and Work Hours" (PDF 616.7 KB)
Yi Zhern Yang "Estimating fluid queueing models using continuous-time hidden Markov models" (PDF 651.2 KB)
Siyuan Zhang "Connecting hidden dots: applying topological data analysis to a socioeconomic dataset" (PDF 1.2 MB)

Previous years' posters