PUBLICATIONS
December 18, 2016
FINDING GOD'S NUMBER FOR THE RUBIK'S CUBE USING COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS
Published by ProQuest in December of 2016, my Masters Thesis explores possible solution methods to the God's Number problem for the 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube using the Quarter Turn Slice Metric. Topics in the thesis include the history of the Rubik's Cube and the God's Number problem, various metrics, an analysis of how many moves it takes to solve cube sequences of various distances, and a more mathematical approach to solving God's Number based on my initial approaches' results. In more detail, there is a breakdown of the process that led me to build the logic for my initial approach, and how the derived results led me to a future approach.
April 4, 2015
CAN EARTHS SURFACE TEMPERATURE BE PREDICTED BY THE COLOR OF ITSÂ LIGHT?
The cover article of Nexus, the Fall 2015/Winter 2016 Official Newsletter of Nassau Community College, discusses the project me and my team worked on while I was president of the Math & Computer Club. We set out to find out whether the surface temperature of the Earth can be predicted based on data collected from a satellite in space that included its color, temperature, latitude and longitude. Out of several thousand experiment proposals, ours was one of only 15 chosen to actually be run on an actual satellite in space.