*Bryce Frederickson

2019 Awardee

College of Science

Mathematics and Statistics

Bryce Frederickson is a mathematics major in his junior year. As an Undergraduate Research Fellow and honors student, Bryce began research in mathematics his freshman year under the mentorship of Dr. David Brown. Though he didn’t work in a fully structured project, Bryce enjoyed exploring challenging combinatorial problems related to Dr.Brown’s research and presented some results on Boolean algebra in 2014. After returning from a church mission in Mexico in 2017, he continued to research with Dr. Brown. He proved several theorems related to tournament entropy, which he presented at two conferences. These have now been submitted for publication. During the summer of 2018, Bryce participated in the REU program at Boise State University, where his group proved some interesting results concerning the combinatorial notion of set splitting. He presented this work at three poster sessions, including at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, MD. This project resulted in another paper that will soon be submitted to an academic journal. Bryce currently works as a teaching assistant for the Complex Variables class and as the honors math tutor. After he graduates in the spring of 2020, he will hopefully enter a PhD program where he can study algebraic combinatorics.