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Astrid
Astrid Olave came to Fields all the way from Colombia, where she
studies at the International University of Colombia in Bogota. Olave
has been good at math for as long as she can remember, but it was
in University that she really fell in love. “Math is in every place – in
biology, in mechanics, in physics, in whatever you want – math is there.”
At Fields, Olave worked on combinatorial optimization with Professor
Konstantinos Georgiou from Ryerson University, where, not being used
to the late summer sunsets, she sometimes worked till well into the
night. Her favourite part of being at Fields was the ability to focus on
research and to see the connections between applied mathematics and
industry.
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Asad
Asad Chaudhary was one of the oldest undergraduates
in the program this year – having just finished his
undergraduate degree in mathematics at Imperial
College London he is all set to start his PhD at Oxford
in the fall. Chaudhary’s main area of interest is partial
different equations (PDEs). “The thing that drew me to
PDEs was this interplay between analysis and geometry,”
he explains. As part of Project 2, Chaudhary studied
sound propagation through laminated structures, either
attempting to design a structure with certain acoustic
properties, or determining the make-up of a structure
given an input sound and the resulting echo. The project
was supervised by Peter Gibson from York University.
For Chaudhary the FUSRP offered a fresh perspective.
“Everybody has different backgrounds: there are things
that I’ve learned that others haven’t and things the others
learned that I haven’t. And even if you learned the same
things you may have been taught in different ways.”
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