Andrew Belt and Nathan Ng

Two posters featuring RIPS-Los Angeles projects and presented by several team members received Outstanding Presentation Awards at the MAA Undergraduate Poster Session. Andrew Belt and Nathan Ng won for their poster, “Polynomial expansion method for the numerical solution of the Lenard-Balescu equation.” The project sponsor was Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and their academic mentor was Susana Serna.  Ilan Morgenstern and Lingxin Zhou, who presented the poster “Matching video segments with relevant documents,” also received the award.   The project sponsor was the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and their academic mentor was Bin Bi. The poster session took place on January 12, 2015 at the Joint Mathematics Meeting.