“We’re giving them a structured way to think about the problem. We want to optimize the solution.”
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Jesse Chan, an assistant professor of CAAM who joined the Rice faculty in 2016, says: “There’s a deep appeal to mathematics in the kind of work I’m doing. It’s like peeling back a bit of reality and figuring out how to change it."
They are part of more than 200 projects spotlighted at the annual event.http://https://ccl.rice.edu/students/undergraduate-research/
The annual event demonstrates problem solving and creative thinking.
Light-laden drones over the Super Bowl and Olympics were attractive demonstrations of the technology, but Rice University students have higher aspirations for their flying flocks.
Moshe Y. Vardi, the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering and director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University, will share with a colleague the 2018 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation.