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In July 2003, Mu Alpha Theta made a three-year commitment to support a special
"Mu Alpha Theta Award" at regional and international Science Fairs and renewed its committment
for three more years in 2005. In addition, the organization provides three $1000 prizes each year
at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in May and provides judges to the event.
The Mu Alpha Theta Award is given to the most challenging, thorough, and creative
investigation of a problem involving mathematics accesible to high school students.
Components of the investigation may include, but are not limited to, mathematical proof,
mathematical modeling, statistical analysis, visualization, simulation, and approximation
Congratulations to our 2009 Science Fair Award winners: At the Intel International Science and
Engineering Fair Mu Alpha Theta awarded the following monetary prizes:
Michael Yan of Hamilton High School in Chandler, AZ won a $1000 prize for his project:
Performance Improvement in Online Analytical Processing.
Matthew Henry Stoffregen of Woodland Hills High School Pittsburgh, PA won a $1000 prize for his project:
An Analysis of Erdo’s Conjecture
Sameer Kirtikumar Deshpande of Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science in Denton, TX; Jeffrey Chan of
William P. Clements High School in Sugar Land, TX; and Alicia Zhang of the Liberal Arts and Science Academy High School
in Austin, TX shared a $1020 prize for their project: Survival Analysis of Gene Expression Data Using a Hybrid Dimension
Our 2008 Science Fair Award winners were: Samuel Irvin Kornicks, Akhil Mathew, and Kevin Hawkins
Samuel attended Vero Beach High School in Vero Beach, FL and won for the second year in a row. His project was entitled: "Quantitative Evaluation of Cancer
Complexity, a Study of Fractal Morphometry, Year Two." Akhil attended Madison High School in Madison, NJ and his project was "Translation-Invariant Binary Representations."
Kevin attended Glen Oak High School in Canton, OH. His project was titled "Evolutionary Patterns in the Influenza A Hemagglutinin Protein
that Support Interspecies Transmission: A bioinformatics and computational Approach." Each won a certificate and a $1000 prize.
Our 2007 winners were Samuel Irvin Kornicks, Shinjini Bakshi, and John Imbrie-Moore.
All these winners are just finishing their Freshmen year in High School. Samuel attends Vero Beach
High School in Vero Beach, FL and his project was entitled: "Quantitative Evaluation of Cancer Cell
Complexity, a Study of Fractal Morphometry. Shijini attends Pennbrook Middle School in North Wales, PA
and her project was "Potential Pandemic: H5N1 Influenza, a Mathematical Study. John attends Charlottesville High School
in Virginia and his project was "Mathematical Modeling of the Speed of Evolution in Asexual Populations.
The 2006 winners of the Mu Alpha Theta $1000 prize were Justin Moore Solomon from Thomas Jefferson
High School for Science and Tech in Alexandria, VA and Michael Anthony Viscardi from Josan Academy in San Diego, CA.
Justin won for his projetct "Three-dimensional Face Recognition from Video:
Facial Surface Reconstruction and Analysis Using Tensor Algebra and Differential
Geometry." Michael won for his project entitled "Solution of the Dirichlet Problem with Rational Boundary Data."
The winners of the 2005 Mu Alpha Theta $1000 Prize were Lasha Margishvili and
Chun-Ju Lai. Lasha is from the Georgian-American High School in Tbilisi, Georgia
Republic and his project was intitled "Diophantine Rectangular Parallelepiped."
Chun-Ju Lai, from the Taipei Municipal Chien-Kuo Senior High School in Taipei City,
Taiwan, won for his project intitled Car Parking Made Hard!
The 2004 winner of the Mu Alpha Theta $1000 Prize was Andrew Lewis Matteson.
Andrew was a student of Samantha Usnick at Randall High School in Amarillo,
TX. Andrew's Project was entitled, "Generalizations of Schur's Problem and
the Search for S(5).
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