Espen Slettnes

I am a homeschooled high school junior enrolled in Stanford Online High School. Since sixth grade, I've also been concurrently enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, taking mathematics, physics, and economics courses. I am also a staff member of the UC Berkeley-affiliated Berkeley Math Circle (BMC). Since 2018, I've been an instructor for its advanced group, teaching collegiate math topics to talented high school students. In 2020, I began problem writing for its monthly proof-based contests, and I am now the BMC monthly contest organizer. I am also an avid student researcher at the MIT PRIMES-USA internship program. My work from the past few years mainly was in combinatorics such as game theory, graph theory, and learning algorithms. When I am not exploring math, you can find me coding various projects, improvising on the piano, playing hidden-role games with friends, or jumping on a trampoline.

Publications and Preprints:

• Minimal Embedding Dimensions of Rectangle k-Visibility Graphs
  E. Slettnes. Journal of Graph Applications and Algorithms, Vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 59-96, January 2021. DOI: 10.7155/jgaa.00550, ISBN: 1526-1719. Mentor: Dr. Jesse Geneson of San Jose State University.
  
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• Sharp bounds on the price of bandit feedback for several models of mistake-bounded online learning (September 2022)
  R. Feng, J. Geneson, A. Lee, E. Slettnes. arXiv: 2209.01366


• Extracting Tree Statistics from the Quasisymmetric Bernardi Polynomial (March 2020)
  L. Cai, E. Slettnes, and J. Zhou; Mentor: Dr. Duncan Levear of MIT.


• Expected Capture Time and Throttling Number for Cop versus Gambler (May 2019)
  J. Geneson, C. Quines, E. Slettnes, and S. Tsai. arXiv: 1902.05860
  


• Variations of the Cop and Robber Game on Graphs (October 2017)
  E. Slettnes, C. Quines, S. Tsai, and J. Geneson. arXiv: 1710.11352
  

Selected awards and recognitions:

• Caroline D. Bradley Scholar, Class of 2023.
• USA Mathematical Olympiad Gold Award, 2022.
• Davidson Fellows Honorable Mention, 2021.
• Spirit of Ramanujan Fellow, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
• S. T. Yau High School Science Award Semifinalist, 2019.
• Broadcom MASTERS, First Place in Mathematics, 2018. (Minor Planet 34379 Slettnes was named in my honor.)
• California Science & Engineering Fair, Project of the Year, 2018
• Bay Area Scholastic Writing Award, Silver key in the Personal Essay and Memoir Category, 2022
• The President's Volunteer Service Award, Gold Level, 2021