64th Annual STS (2004-2005)
Finalists
Neal Wadhwa

NEW YORK
Neal Wadhwa, 18, of East Setauket studied the relationship between topology and geometry in Calabi-Yau supermanifolds, which are special subspaces of n-dimensional space over the complex numbers, for his mathematics project in the Intel Science Talent Search. These manifolds, of special interest to string theorists, arise in theoretical physics as well as mathematics. Neal shows that a natural generalization to supermanifolds of a result of Yau's on Calabi-Yau manifolds is false. He also considers notions of distance, called metrics, which can live on the manifolds in question. At Ward Melville High School, Neal is both president of the math team and captain of the science bowl. He has also dedicated more than 150 hours of community service at the Stony Brook University Hospital. An avid pianist and trumpeter, he has performed in multiple concerts since 2001. He is an author of a paper on Super Calabi-Yau manifolds, which has been submitted to the journal Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. The son of Drs. Nand and Nandita Wadhwa, Neal hopes to attend MIT and pursue his interests in mathematics, computer science and engineering.