Loser Takes All – Analyzing Poker Through Simulation

Faculty Sponsor: Maryam Gooyabadi Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Aaron Foote Aaron Foote is a rising senior from Chappaqua, New York. Prior to Wesleyan he attended Horace Greeley High School. Academically, Aaron studies computer science, data science, and applied math. He is excited to continue work on a computer science thesis under Professor Krizanc on … Read more

VTA Neuron Dopaminergic Circuitry Change Following Acute and Chronic Alcohol Exposure

Faculty Sponsor: Laverne Melón Tina Han Tina Han is a rising senior from China majoring in Neuroscience and Philosophy. Her research interest circles around emotion, memory, and narration. She aims to break the boundary between subjects, using computational and traditional techniques to explore the emotional circuits in human brain. Outside of classroom, she does acting, … Read more

Predictors of Critical Motivation Amongst Asian Immigrant Adolescents

Faculty Sponsor: Professor Andrea Negrete Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine predictors of critical motivation among Asian immigrant-origin adolescents. Previous research suggests that immigration policies directly impact immigrant-origin youth in many aspects of their lives such as health and education. However, this research expands on previous findings to examine how restrictive immigration … Read more

City Diplomacy and Economic Growth

Faculty Sponsor: Mary Alice Haddad Abstract: Diplomacy, conventionally thought to be the mechanism between states to manage international relationships, increasingly, became observable between cities/regions. In the recent decade, many cities in the United States have established an office or unit directly responsible for international affairs. This project intends to capture the relationship between city diplomacy … Read more

Using Unreal Engine to Find the Orientations of 3D Objects

Faculty Sponsor: Greg Voth Abstract: In a fluid mechanics lab, it is often the case that a particle’s movement through fluid must be studied in minute detail. Our lab records videos of 3D-printed particles moving in a high-volume tank of water with four high-speed cameras, and we aim to examine their motion by determining the … Read more

Why us? Factors Influencing Membership in Color Naming Clusters

Faculty Sponsor: Maryam Gooyabadi Abstract: Color is a universal concept existing in every language. While each language has its own unique characteristics, there has been found a shared pattern existing across different language groups. Studying the similarities and differences in color naming between languages could give us a clear view of some underlying shared patterns … Read more

Follow the Diagonals: Finding String Matches through Matrix Operations

Faculty Sponsor: Professor Pavel Oleinikov Abstract: Pairwise comparisons produce a diagonal line of matches and are originally used in homology. This method is extended to text similarity detections in programming languages as well as large collections of texts. The tokenization of texts allows dynamic programming such as Global Alignment to detect similar texts while running … Read more

British Stock Market Volatility: Before and After the 1929 NYSE Stock Market Crash

Faculty Sponsor: Professor Grossman, Economics Department Abstract: The stock market volatility can be measured by the implied volatility of options. To analyze the British stock market volatility before and after the NYSE stock market crash in 1929, we looked into the options price data across different sectors in the British stock market and calculated the … Read more