[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.14″ background_image=”https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/intl_surf_patterns.jpg” parallax=”on” custom_padding=”72px|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.14″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.14″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.14″ header_font=”|600||on|||||” header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font_size=”50px” header_letter_spacing=”2px” header_text_shadow_style=”preset3″ header_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0.24em” header_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0.24em” header_text_shadow_blur_strength=”1.8em” header_text_shadow_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row custom_padding=”0|0px|0|0px|false|false” _builder_version=”3.14″ background_color=”#ffffff” border_width_all=”20px” border_color_all=”rgba(0,0,0,0)”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.14″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.14″]\u201cMath is largely about finding patterns,\u201d said Carnegie Mellon University senior Necati Alp M\u00fcyesser. The patterns of this undergraduate\u0313s life have taken him from Turkey to Berlin to Pittsburgh, and from a completely separate college to the Department of Mathematical Sciences.<\/p>\n
When M\u00fcyesser, a native of Istanbul, entered Carnegie Mellon, he did so as a student in College of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.<\/p>\n
\u201cI realized quickly it wasn’t for me.\u201d
\nInstead, through his first-year classes, he found himself drawn to mathematics and particularly a field known as Ramsey Theory.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe catchphrase for the field could be \u02bbcomplete chaos is impossible,\u02bc\u201d M\u00fcyesser described. \u201cIt is completely opposed to anything I would have thought of as math from my high school background.\u201d<\/p>\n
Essentially, Ramsey Theory looks at the conditions that mean “order” that must exist in a certain set, whether that be a group of numbers or even a collection of people.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf a system you’re looking at is large enough, orderly substructures will form,\u201d M\u00fcyesser said.
\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.14″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.14″]One highlight of M\u00fcyesser’s undergraduate career at Carnegie Mellon was his time as an International Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow. The program funds roughly two months of full-time research under a faculty member in a foreign country. M\u00fcyesser’s ISURF grant took him to the Free University of Berlin, where he said he got to meet many well-known mathematicians. \u201cIt was a good simulation of what my graduate school experience will be like,\u201d M\u00fcyesser said.<\/p>\n
As a senior, M\u00fcyesser is looking forward to continuing in academia and mathematical research. “I’m confident that I will want to do this for a long time,” he said.<\/p>\n
Along with rock climbing, one of M\u00fcyesser\u0313s favorite extracurricular activities is just walking around the campus and the city, he said. Even then, math is never far from his mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a good way to do homework,\u201d M\u00fcyesser noted of his time walking, in which he can think through equations in his head. \u201cIt\u0313s easier not to get distracted.\u201d
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David Altizio, Xinyu Wu and Bryan Ding and Zilin Wang Wenxin Ding Shuyang (Serena) Gao and Novdano Dede Yusuf Varun Gudibanda Yong Gun Choe Zhiyang He Ruoyuan Liu and Yuepeng Yang Jung Joo Suh Emily Zhu First Place \u2014 David Simmons Prize for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics<\/strong> Second Place<\/strong> Third Place (Tie)<\/strong> Nicholas Sieger Young Researcher Award<\/strong> First place in the Statistics Poster Competition<\/strong> Dietrich Humanities Award<\/strong> Honorable Mention in the Statistics Poster Competition<\/strong> International SURF with Senior, Alp M\u00fcyesser \u201cMath is largely about finding patterns,\u201d said Carnegie Mellon University senior Necati Alp M\u00fcyesser. The patterns of this undergraduate\u0313s life have taken him from Turkey to Berlin to Pittsburgh, and from a completely separate college to the Department of Mathematical Sciences. When M\u00fcyesser, a native of Istanbul, entered Carnegie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-451","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/451\/revisions\/628"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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