High school senior wins scholarship
A high school senior from Oregon won a $100,Mulberry Handbags,000 scholarship at one of the nations premier high school science competitions on Monday for his research in a new area of mathematics called string topology.
The research conducted by Dmitry Vaintrob,Mulberry Handbags, 18,Replica Chloe, a student at South Eugene High School in Eugene, Ore., could provide knowledge that mathematicians and physicists might apply to understand electricity, magnetism and gravity, judges at the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology said.
His work is at the Ph.D. level, publishable and already attracting the attention of researchers, said competition judge Michael Hopkins, a professor of mathematics at Harvard.
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