Students from the UCLA Research in Industrial Projects Program Present to the Institute

From left: Peter Broadwell, Margo Smith, Anna Kuznetsova, Peter Sugihara, Rodrigo Mendoza Smith, Leo Hsu, and Sam Gustman.

Sam Gustman, the Institute's Chief Technology Officer, introduces the panel of presenters.

Student research team from the UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics’ Research in Industrial Projects Program. From left: Peter Sugihara, Rodrigo Mendoza Smith, Anna Kuznetsova, and Margo Smith.

Margo Smith, a mathematics major at Kenyon College, discusses the results of their research.

Peter Sugihara, a mathematics and computer science major from Bard College (transferring to Columbia University this academic year), discusses the results of their research.

Anna Kuznetsova, a mathematics major at Duke University, discusses the results of their research.

Rodrigo Mendoza Smith, an applied mathematics major at the Instituto Tecnológico Autonomo de Mexico, discusses the results of their research.

Peter Sugihara presents the results of their research.

Left to right: Peter Sugihara, Rodrigo Mendoza Smith, and Anna Kuznetsova.

Margo Smith discusses the results of their research.

Peter Sugihara discusses the results of their research.

Anna Kuznetsova discusses the results of their research.

From right: Anita Pace, USC Shoah Foundation Institute Director of Technology; and Kim Simon, USC Shoah Foundation Institute Managing Director.

Karen Jungblut, USC Shoah Foundation Institute Director of Research and Documentation; and Crispin Brooks, Curator of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.

For the second consecutive year, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute was selected to participate as a sponsor organization in the UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics’ Research in Industrial Projects (RIPS) Program. The RIPS program “provides an opportunity for high-achieving undergraduate students to work in teams on a real-world research project proposed by a sponsor from industry or the public sector."

This year, students Anna Kuznetsova, Rodrigo Mendoza Smith, Margo Smith, and Peter Sugihara used the Visual History Archive to study “geo-semantic mining and knowledge discovery for a large collection historical narrative." (Click here to learn more.)

On August 23, the students presented their findings at the Institute.

Album posted on: August 29, 2011