Isoperimetric Problems

Prior to my Intel research project, I had tried to get a research project with several local universities. However, all of my attempts collapsed for a variety of reasons. To be honest, I had given up on trying to find research opportunities when I received a letter of acceptance from the Research Science Institute (RSI). Sponsored by the Center for Excellence for Education (CEE), RSI accepts about 50 high school students every year, typically students who have finished their junior year. At RSI, these 50 US students plus about 25 international students conduct research with faculty at Harvard, MIT, and other Boston-area institutions with topics ranging from carbon nanotubes to dark matter to Z-DNA to coding for peer-to-peer networks to graph theory.

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