American University of Beirut

Summer Research Camp

The Summer Research Camp is organized by Dr. Florian Bertrand and the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences. The program offers an exciting and espresso-like research experience to our undergraduate community and help them exploring Mathematics. Students engage in research work with their peers under the guidance of a professor over 6-8 weeks. They are invited to work on problems that do not require substantial background but are nevertheless of interest to the community, with results worth being published. By participating in the camp, students learn to collaborate as a team, extend classroom knowledge to the realm of research, and naturally improve their chances of pursuing successful graduate studies.

For more information, please contact the organizer, Dr. Florian Bertrand.




2025 Edition:
  • On some electrodiffusion models (Elie Abdo): Joe Germany, Mohammad Hamdan, Kifah Kontar, Mohammad Shouman.

  • TBA (Wissam Raji): Maribelle El-Sayed, Hadi Zoghaib.

  • Inverse problems in imaging optics (Ahmad Sabra): Mohammad Tarek Al Masri, Stéphane Najjar, Maya Said, Muna Sattouf 






2024 Edition:
  • Stationary discs for degenerate submanifolds (Florian Bertrand): Mohammad Tarek Al Masri, Jad Mchaimech, Lea Oueidat, Hadi Zoghaib.

  • Solving inverse problems using minimization methods and AI (Sophie Moufawad): Christophe El Chabab, Noura Helwani, Ali Ibrahim, Georges Sakr.

  • Spatio-temporal stochastic mathematical model for disease spread (Fatima Mroue): Hassan El Bouz, Karim Faraj, Anthony Khairallah, Clara Riachi

Outcomes of the 2024 camp:

[1]Construction of stationary discs for perturbations of decoupled submanifolds in C^4 (Mohammad Tarek Al Masri, Florian Bertrand, Jad Mchaimech, Lea Oueidat, Hadi Zoghaib), submitted for publication.

[2]. Derivation, Analysis and simulation of a spatio-temporal epidemiology model with memory (Hassan El Bouz, Karim Faraj, Anthony Khairallah, Fatima Mroue), submitted for publication. 

[3]. Stationary for degenerate submanifolds (Mohammad Tarek Al Masri, Florian Bertrand, Lea Oueidat, Hadi Zoghaib), in preparation.

The  Workshop "SRC Meet the Teams - Summer 2024" will take place  place on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

2023 Edition:
  • Invariant curves on CR manifolds (Giuseppe Della Sala): Nisrine Bakaev, Seok Ban, Hassan El Bouz, Ahmad Hussein, Jean Moussa.

  • Inverse problems involving metamaterials (Ahmad Sabra): Issar Zeynab Amro, Fatima Fneish, Rawad Kansoh, Walid Tabbara.

  • Information-theoretic proofs of zero-one laws (Siamak Taati): Yahya Ayach, Anthony Khairallah, Tia Manoukian, Jad Mchaimech, Adam Salha.

Outcomes of the 2023 camp:

[1]. On the local behavior of chains on strongly pseudoconvex hypersurfaces in C^3 (Nisrine Bakaev, Seok Ban, Hassan El Bouz, Giuseppe Della Sala, Ahmad Hussein, Jean Moussa), to appear in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.

[2]. Zero-one laws for events with positional symmetries (Yahya Ayach, Anthony Khairallah, Tia Manoukian, Jad Mchaimech, Adam Salha),  Journal of Theoretical Probability, 38 (2025), no. 2, 43.

[3].  Inverse problems with hybrid lenses (Issar Zeynab Amro, Fatima Fneish, Rawad Kansoh, Ahmad Sabra and Walid Tabbara), Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 539 (2024), Paper No. 128645, 23 pp.

[4]. Information-theoretic proofs of zero-one laws (Yahya Ayach, Anthony Khairallah, Tia Manoukian, Jad Mchaimech, Adam Salha), report.


The Workshop "SRC Meet the Teams - Summer 2023" took place on Wednesday April 24, 2024.




2022 Edition:
In 2022, 10 students participated and worked on three different projects:

  • Direct and inverse problems in the study of pandemics (Sophie Moufawad and Nabil Nassif): Nadine Charaf, Rawan Madi, Hussein Moussa and Lara Tarakh.

  • Invariant Jacobi-like function under transformation (Wissam Raji): Maher Me'meh and Ali Saraeb.

  • Higher order Poincaré metrics (Florian Bertrand): Seok Ban, Amir Jaber Chehayeb, Adam Salha and Walid Tabbara.

Outcomes of the 2022 camp:

[1]. A generalization of Iseki Formula and the transformation of θ1(ω, τ )  (Maher Me'meh and Ali Saraeb), Hardy-Ramanujan Journal , 45 (2022), 130-139.

[2]. A generalization of Siegel's method to Jacobi's theta 1 function (Maher Me'meh and Ali Saraeb), Ramanujan Journal, 65 (2024), 521–531.

[3]. On the higher order Kobayashi pseudometric (Seok Ban, Florian Bertrand, Amir Jaber Chehayeb, Adam Salha and Walid Tabbara), Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations,  69 (2024), 1935-1948.

[4]. Data-Driven Models for studying the Dynamics of the COVID-19 Pandemics (Rawan Madi, Sophie Moufawad, Nabil Nassif), submitted for publication. 

[5]. A New Proof for The Transformation Laws Of Jacobi Theta Functions (Maher Me'meh and Ali Saraeb), preprint .

[6]. On the Generalization of Radamacher’s Proof to ϑ1(z, τ ) (Maher Me'meh and Ali Saraeb), preprint.



Ali Saraeb was awarded the Abdul Hadi Debs Endowment Award for Academic Excellence in 2023.

Amir Jaber Chehayeb  was awarded the Abdul Hadi Debs Endowment Award for Academic Excellence in 2024.


The Workshop "SRC Meet the Teams - Summer 2022" took place on Saturday Oct. 22, 2022.



 





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