Esat Young Scientist Exhibition Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The Esat Young Scientist Exhibition is an annual competition held in Dublin, Ireland early in the new year for encouraging interest in science in secondary schools, currently sponsored by Esat BT. Recent exhibitions have had in excess of 1000 entrants. The competition was founded in 1965 and celebrated its 40th anniversary this year. Previous to 1997, since its inception, the event was sponcered by Aer Lingus and known as the Aer Lingus Young Scientist Exhibition.

Recent winners of the competition

• 2004: Ronan Larkin was the winner of the competition for his project Generalised Continued Fractions. His project concerned new techniques for solving difficult mathematical equations.

• 2003: Adnan Osmani was the winner for his project The graphical technological and user-friendly advancement of the internet browser: XWebs. He developed a new networking socket and web browser that enables faster internet access even with an ordinary modem.

• 2002: David Michael O'Doherty was the winner for his project The Distribution of the Primes and the Underlying Order to Chaos. He is a mathematics undergraduate in the University of Cambridge. His prize was for research into the second Hardy-Littlewood conjecture, an unsolved problem in number theory which concerns the number of primes in intervals.

• 2001: Peter Taylor, Shane Browne and Michael O'Toole were winners for their project Investigating symmetrical shapes formed by polygons. They solved a problem in geometry concerning how regular polygons can be arranged into circular patterns of optimum symmetry.

• 2000: Thomas Gernon was the winner for his project The geography and mathematics of Europe's urban centres. His prize was for mathematical analysis of the trends in urbanization in Europe.

• 1999: Sarah Flannery was the winner for her project Cryptography - A new algorithm versus the RSA. She is currently a mathematics undergraduate in the University of Cambridge. She researched a new cryptographic algorithm involving matrix algebra which was faster than the RSA (which depends on the difficulty in factoring large integers). Flannery leapt to fame as the speed improvements attracted the attention of the press. Subsequent study showed that the algorithm, while faster, was not secure enough to replace the RSA. She wrote a book on her algorithm and number theory in general called "In Code: A Mathematical Journey" (ISBN 0761123849).

• 1998: Raphael Hurley was the winner of the competition for his project The Mathematics of Monopoly. In his project he determined a system for optimally selecting properties in the boardgame Monopoly, based on the probability of a player landing on those properties.

External links

• Official site
• News article about 2003 winner
• Project report for 2002 winner
• Summary of 2001 project
• Summary of 2000 project
• News article about 1999 project
• News article about 1999 project
• Summary of 1999 project

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