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4 projects in Physics & Astronomy
Matteo Paz
Grand award · Regeneron STS 2025
Processed roughly 200 billion raw entries and identified about 1.5 million new candidate variable objects.
Thanush Patlolla
Finalist · Regeneron STS 2025
Reported a 0.6% increase in the accuracy of energy distribution predictions.
Aleksandra Petkova
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2025
A study of how vessel speed shapes wake patterns, combining aerial photography of real wakes with controlled trials using remote-controlled boats, to predict the speed that minimises drag for a given hull size.
Minghao Zou
Finalist · Regeneron STS 2025
An algorithm simulating how protons behave under the extreme conditions found around astrophysical sources, in order to study the neutrino production that follows.