Maxim Rabinovich
FLORIDA
Maxim Rabinovich, 17, of Wimauma, submitted a mathematics project
determining the scaling limits of generalized anisotropic models to the Intel
Science Talent Search. Max's work addressed a random process of diffusion in
which a finite set of particles start out on points on a grid, and those
particles which share a site move randomly to unoccupied points until no site
has more than one particle. Levine and Peres showed that the shape of the
expected result would be rectangular under certain assumptions. Under a more
general assumption concerning the probabilities of motion, Max showed that the
resulting shape is an ellipsoid. Max is a student at Shorecrest Preparatory
School in St. Petersburg where he plays violin in the concert band. He is first
in his class of 55 and received perfect SAT scores. Max has also received a
University of Chicago Book Award and enjoys creative writing and weightlifting.
Born in the Ukraine, he is the son of Paul Rabinovich and Julia Roebuck. He
plans to attend Harvard or Princeton and hopes to develop solutions for some
fundamental math problems that provide insight into the nature of mathematics.
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