Third Annual Yulia’s Dream Virtual Conference on June 25

Everyone is cordially invited to the Third Annual Yulia’s Dream Virtual Conference on June 25, 2025!
Yulia’s Dream is a free remote mathematics research and enrichment program for exceptional high school students from Ukraine. It was established in March 2022 as an initiative under PRIMES (Program for Research in Mathematics, Engineering and Science for High School Students) at the MIT Mathematics Department. Yulia’s Dream is dedicated to the memory of Yulia Zdanovska, a 21-year-old graduate of the National University of Kyiv, a winner of the 2017 European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad and a teacher for the “Teach for Ukraine” program who was killed by a Russian-fired missile in her home city of Kharkiv. We hope to help other Ukrainian boys and girls fulfill her dream.
The conference program is appended below and can also be viewed here: https://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/primes/YuliasDream/YD-2025.htmlThe conference will include presentations of individual and group research and reading projects. It will also feature a guest talk by Prof. Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M University), “How Groups Grow and Double.”
Zoom webinar link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/96395495019?pwd=zzHfb5KqIHDAymmS17YvIXDfmbPEuK.1
Please join us for these exciting talks by budding young mathematicians from Ukraine!
Best regards,
Prof. Pavel EtingofChief Research Advisor
Dr. Slava GerovitchProgram Director
MIT PRIMES / Yulia’s Dream
http://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/primeshttps://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/primes/YuliasDream
Wednesday, June 252h>
9:10 am (Boston) [16:10 (Kyiv)]: Welcoming Remarks4h>
- Prof. Pavel Etingof, Yulia's Dream Chief Research Advisor
- Dr. Slava Gerovitch, Yulia's Dream Program Director
9:25-10:05 am (Boston) [16:25-17:00 (Kyiv)]: Session 14h>
- Olena Syvachenko, Klim Garmash, “Turan’s Problem” (mentor Alina Harbuzova, MIT)
- Mykhailo Bolshakov, “Ramsey Theory on the Integers” (mentor Sasha Voitovych, MIT)
10:15-11:35 am (Boston) [17:15-18:35 (Kyiv)]: Guest lecture4h>
- Prof. Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M University), “How Groups Grow and Double”
11:45-12:40 am (Boston) [18:45-19:40 (Kyiv)]: Session 24h>
- Sophia Breslavets, “Fixed Points of Diffie-Hellman Permutations” (mentor Prof. Vasily Dolgushev, Temple University) (continuation of last year Yulia’s Dream project)
- Liubomyr Bielov, Dariia Balan, “Lattice structures on graphs of polytopes” (mentor Dr. Daria Poliakova, University of Hamburg)
- Oleg Puzyrkov, Sofiia Lipkevych, Mykola Kobzarenko, “Introduction to Abstract Linear Algebra”(mentor Mykola Sapronov, University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
12:50-1:25 pm (Boston) [19:50-20:25 (Kyiv)]: Session 3
- Heorhii Zhylinskyi, “Generalized Markov traces” (mentor Dr. Kostiantyn Tolmachov, University of Hamburg)
- Roman Mielamud, Anton Opulskyi, Yura Kabkov, TBA (mentor Prof. Anne Dranowski, University of Southern California)