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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. In addition,
the organization will provide a $1000 prize each year at the Intel International
Science and Engineering Fair in May and provide judges to the event. At the July
2005 Governing Council meeting, it was decided to extend that committment
for an additional three years. It was also decided to increase the number of $1000 awards.
In 2007, three awards of $1000 each were presented and the same will be true in 2008.
In 2006 and 2005, two $1000 prizes were awarded.
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 Samuel Irvin Kornicks, Shinjini Bakshi, and John Imbrie-Moore, our 2007 winners!
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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