Michael Anthony Viscardi (born February 22, 1989 in Plano,

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) of

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is an American

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who, as a highschooler, won the 2005

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and Davidson Fellowship with a mathematical project on the

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, whose applications include describing the flow of heat across a metal surface, winning $100,000 and $50,000 in scholarships, respectively. Viscardi's theorem is an expansion of the 19th-century work of

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. He was also named a finalist with the same project in the

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. Viscardi placed Best of Category in Mathematics at the International Science and Engineering Fair (

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) in May 2006. Viscardi also qualified for the

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and the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.

Life

Viscardi was

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for high school, supplemented with mathematics classes at the

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. He is also a pianist and violinist, and onetime concertmaster of the San Diego Youth Symphony. Viscardi is a member of the

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class of 2010. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, receiving a 2010 Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Prize, and earning the 2011

Morgan Prize :''Distinguish from the De Morgan Medal awarded by the London Mathematical Society.'' The Morgan Prize (full name Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student) is an annual award given to an un ...

honorable mention for his senior thesis "Alternate Compactifications of the Moduli Space of Genus One Maps". He worked as a postdoc at

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from 2016 to 2018.Viscardi's webpage at Berkeley
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Selected publication

References

External links

Viscardi's website at MITMichael Viscardi: Person of the WeekBiography
at Davidson Institute site {{DEFAULTSORT:Viscardi, Michael 1989 births Living people People from Plano, Texas 21st-century American mathematicians Harvard College alumni American male violinists People from San Diego American male pianists 21st-century American pianists 21st-century American violinists 21st-century American male musicians