Michael Lindsey wins a Kennedy Thesis Prize

male college student holding medal

Graduating senior Michael Lindsey won the university’s Kennedy Award for the best undergraduate thesis in the natural sciences. Michael’s thesis originated in a team project with SURIM, the Stanford Undergraduate Research in Mathematics program, in the Summer of 2012.

Michael’s work, directed by Dr. Yanir Rubinstein, led to an algorithm which, using sophisticated arguments from functional analysis and partial differential equations, he was able to prove converges to a solution of the optimal transport problem, a very active topic in current mathematical research.

This fall, Michael will begin a PhD in math at UC-Berkeley.