REU & STARS – Summer 2025
2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Friday, August 15, 2025
Mathematics Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Student Team Astrophysics Researchers (STARS)
Oral Presentations
9:00 AM to 2:45 PM
Discovery Hall 162
Open to the public
9:00 AM to 9:05 AM
Introduction and welcome to the keynote speakers, Dr. Milagros Loreto
9:05 AM to 9:25 AM
A celebration of REUs past and present
Keynote speaker, Dr. Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Dean and Professor, School of Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics, UWB
9:30 AM to 9:55 AM
Tiling: Even Harder to Decide Than a Restaurant
Keynote speaker, Dr. Casey Mann, Professor of Mathematics, School of Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics, UWB (REU)
10:00 AM to 10:25 AM
Topological data analysis techniques in genetic stock identification of Chinook Salmon
- Rosemary Hartless, St Olaf College
- Abigail Nigro, Mount Holyoke College
- Alison Watson, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Field, UWB School of STEM, (REU)
10:30 AM to 10:40 AM
Coffee Break (10 mins)
10:40 AM to 11:00 AM
Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy
- Adam Khan, University of Washington Bothell
- Hajrah Choudhry, Cascadia College
- Robert Cole, Cascadia College
- Agageldi Artykov, Washington State University
Mentors: Dr. Chris Byrne, Cascadia College, and Dr. Joey S. Key, UWB School of STEM, (STARS)
11:05 AM to 11:15 AM
Applications of Radio Astronomy Research and Data Collection
- Kaito Hasebe, University of Washington Bothell
Mentors: Dr. Chris Byrne, Cascadia College, and Dr. Joey S. Key, UWB School of STEM, (STARS)
11:20 AM to 11:30 AM
Characterizing Radio Pulsars
- Sujana Moorthy, Cascadia College
Mentors: Dr. Chris Byrne, Cascadia College, and Dr. Joey S. Key, UWB School of STEM, (STARS)
11:35 AM to 12:00 PM
Delayed Weighted Subgradient Method with Spectral Steps
- Grace Ko, Vanderbilt University
- Apol Medrano, Central Washington University
- Tim Scheldt, University of Washington Bothell
Mentor: Dr. Milagros Loreto, UWB School of STEM, (REU)
Break
12:05 PM to 12:55 PM
Pizza in Discovery Hall room 162
1:00 PM to 1:25 PM
CT Image Reconstruction with Unrolled Iterative Networks
- Alexander Huang, San Diego Miramar College
- Zachary Linder, Coe College
- Dana Pantoja-Campa, NYU
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Humphries, UWB School of STEM, (REU)
1:30 PM to 1:55 PM
A computerized search for Heesch numbers of polykites
- Aiden Kreeger, University of Washington Bothell
Mentor: Dr. Casey Mann, UWB School of STEM, (REU)
2:00 PM to 2:25 PM
- Layan Arrabi, University of Washington Bothell
- Rowan Surkan, University of Washington Bothell
Mentor: Dr. Casey Mann, UWB School of STEM, (REU)