Dear COSMOS Students,

COSMOS is almost over and I’m sitting here thinking about all that we’ve experienced and what we’ve accomplished. We’ve had so much fun together and learned so much at the same time. It seems like just yesterday you got free games from Electronic Arts, went on a whale watch to see wondrous sea life, had ice cream at Marianne’s, watched a cubed bubble be made, got covered head to toe in sand at the beach, or stared at the sky. I hope this experience has been everything you’ve hoped it would be. After my first year with COSMOS, I am absolutely amazed at the talent that each of you has, both academically and artistically. We tell everyone that our students are the cream of the crop, and this year, there’s no exception. It’s one thing to read your application; it’s another to meet this intelligent and gifted young mind who amazes us with his or her talents and gifts. I hope for all of you this summer has been a blast; it has been for me and the rest of my staff. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t hear from an instructor, a teacher fellow, a resident assistant, or a guest speaker how about impressed they were with your talents and abilities. I hope you’ve come to not only appreciate the subject matter you’ve studied in the past few weeks, but you’ve also come to enjoy other areas like computer science, molecular biology, astrophysics, organic chemistry, and logic. I hope many of you not only have seen how capable you are of succeeding in college, but you’ve considered what you’d like to focus on in college. If you decide to major in math or science wonderful! If you don’t, then please continue your interest in math and science in other ways. Please remember how your interest and background in math and science will always fare you well.

Finally, as you leave, remember the friends you’ve made – young and old. You should cherish the relationships you’ve made with your classmates, resident assistants, instructors, teacher fellows, and staff members. You never know where life will take you and it never hurts to have a friend along the way. COSMOS is not only about math and science; it’s an enriching and empowering summer experience that makes you feel comfortable about the choices you make and the person you are. Here at COSMOS, we embrace our differences and encourage your love for math and science. Of all the things I hope for, my greatest hope is that you will leave this program feeling more confident, more knowledgeable, and more able to face the challenges ahead of you. I believe in all of you. I hope you believe in yourselves too. Best wishes to you, Dr. Amy Stucky

Director

COSMOS Office Staff

Alexandria LeckliterResidential Program Manager

Dr. Amy Stucky Director

Fernando CorralAcademic Support Coordinator

Jenna FrenchCOSMOS Program Assistant

Lupe ParedesCOSMOS Program Assistant

John JohnsonCoordinator for Residential Education

Max LampertCOSMOS Wireless Lab Technician

Nina GhaffarianCOSMOS Student Assistant

Cluster 1: Logic & Probability Riddles and Reason

Frank Bauerle Instructor

Yonatan Katznelson Instructor

April Williams Teacher Fellow

Takeshi Kaneko Teacher Fellow

Patrick Schultz Teahing Assistant

Moses Wintner Teaching Assistant

Erin Simpson

Kevin Baum Matthew Chang Andre Garrett

Jimmy Guo Clara Kahng Melanie Lim Ryan Menezes

Akshay Radia Maria Rios Catherine Smith

Alvin Yuan Tony Zhang Anthony Zhao

Mariya Datsenko

Sam Perez Residential Advisor

Gavin Darby Residential Advisor

Cluster 2: Engineering the Future- Autonomous Robots and Nanotechnology

Miguel Aznar Instructor

Nobby Kobayashi Instructor

Noah Wilson Instructor

Joe Manildi Teacher Fellow

Janna Bedell] Teacher Fellow

Tausif Chowdhury Job Huerta

Conrad Chan Stephanie Chan Matthew Chong

Alex Collier

Amanda Krall

Lauren Litwiler Jared Naito Conrad Nelson

Marc Guzman Residential Advisor

Venessa Griffith Residential Advisor

Tony Cho

Rachel LeCover

Adrian Ponce-Rojas

Christine Feng

Scott Takahashi

Michael Koller Kyle Lian

Cluster 3: Under the Sea: Exploring Marine Organisms and Their World

Shawn Noren-Kramer Instructor

Rachel Barnett-Johnson Instructor

Joe Manildi Teacher Fellow

Chung Khong Teacher Fellow

Darrell Steely Teacher Fellow

Amanda Jenson Teacher Assistant

Patrick Robinson Teacher Assistant

Alyssa Boyle Taras Dreszer

Darcy McCarrick

Rachel Pausch Joyce Rushton

Analisa Sheilds-Estrada

Leo De Haro Residential Advisor

Astrid Heim Residential Advisor

Chelsea Carambas

Elisa Sunga

Jose Espinoza Elaine Kuo

Areli Vaca Anna Zeemont

Anne Rempel Elizabeth Palomar

Ariel Hunter

Secilia Corona

Cluster 4: Everyday Chemistry: From Perfumes to Pollution

Bakhtan Singaram Instructor

Jinsue Choi Teacher Fellow

Chad Saltikov Instructor

Jacob ClaryTeacher Assistant

Stanley Williamson Instructor

April BautistaTeacher Assistant

Deneka Shile Teacher Assistant

Jeanie Ramos Teacher Assistant

Jessica Brownell Jose Escarce

Judy Ma

Malavika Neti Ivonne Nolasco

Leslie Serrano Ratnalekha Viswanadham Silas Wilksinson

Joshua Cohen

Kathy Zheng

Nausheen Mahmood Yu-Jen Kao Jeffrey Mich

Ana Castillo

Geffen Oren Maricarmen Reyes

Ruby Aguirre Residential Advisor

Zane Griffin Residential Advisor

Cluster 5: The Design of Fun: From Concept to Code

Anne SullivanTeacher Assistant

Gillian Smith Instructor

Alice Li Teacher Fellow

Ken Hullett Teacher Assistant

Jim Whitehead Instructor

Michelle Xie Kimberly Young

Aditi Bhatia Trevor Elsbree

Rosario Granados

Don Kianian Mandy Korpusik

Joshua Moller-Mara Rohan Ramakrishnan Allie Simpson

Anthony VeraResidential Advisor

Lun WangResidential Advisor

Nathan Conner

Matthew Tambara

Samuel Harrison Lucas Fisher Tanya Huang

Lisa Chen

Aimee Ma Justin Mautner

Cluster 6: Chemistry and Mathematics: From Life to Thought

Bakhtan Singaram Instructor

Frank Bauerle Instructor

Jacob ClaryTeacher Assistant

Stanley Williamson Instructor

April BautistaTeacher Assistant

Deneka Shile Teacher Assistant

Patrick Schultz Teacher Assistant

Shelley Caranza Teacher Fellow

Moses Wintner Teacher Assistant

Nitya Bhaskar Andrew Bleich Sam DeNicola

Chelsea Fried Miguel Leon Praveen Ramesh

Dhruv Seshadri Lumin Sperling

Vincent Tieu Alejandro Vanezuela Helen Wong

Jesha GeluzResidential Advisor

Lalo Jaramillo Residential Advisor

Richard Chern

Jeffrey Xu

Benito Medrano

Edwardo Rubio Dovie Siaway

Peter Yu

Cluster 7: Astronomy, Number Theory, and Cryptography: From 1 to the Stars

Raja Guha Thakurta Instructor

Toni Dunn Teacher Fellow

Yonatan Katznelson Instructor

Karrie Gilbert Instructor

Kirsten Howley Teacher Assistant

Ana Aceves-Cabrera Daniel Anderson

Oleksiy Budilovsky Selena Buzinky

Olivia Lenz Akshay Nanavati

Charles Nelson Maria Reyna Ashwin Sundar

Vanessa Cervantes Residential Advisor

Tim Clark Residential Advisor

Jay Bhayani

Jack Taylor

Hye-Won Chi

Peter Blanchard

Eric Law Jasmine Lombera

Melisa Cruz

Akshay Vyas Oleg Zhukov

Cluster 8: Marine Mammals and Oceanography: From Prey to Predators

Shawn Noren-Kramer Instructor

Beverly Bonde Teacher Fellow

Patrick Robinson Teacher Assistant

Baldo Marinovic Instructor

Not Pictured: Cynthia Carrion

Kelsey Anderson Amanda Brodell

Francisco Coronel Amanda Evans

Jamie Long Jessica Quinn

Meghan Schiveley Madeline Sides Joel Solis

Rachel Rogers Roberto Santos

Meg Cheng-Campbell

Julie Torres

Neisa Johnson

Emmy Clyatt

Jenna Le Vivian Nguyen

Karen Kaye

Cluster 9: Particle and Astrophysics: Investigations of the Miniscule to the Massive

Pauline Seales Teacher Fellow

Paul Graham Instructor

Dave Dorfan Instructor

John KehayiasTeacher Assistant