Paige Yeung

Research in Dynamical Systems

In summer 2024, I participated in the Complex Systems REU at the University of Minnesota with faculty advisor Arnd Scheel. There, I investigated vacuum formation in a two-dimensional swarm model with Antonio Madrigal and Annie Warren under the mentorship of Angel Chavez and Olivia Clifton. Here is our JMM poster. Our paper is in progress.
From fall 2023 to spring 2025, I worked on a project researching the dynamics of a model for interacting “tipping elements” in the climate system, i.e. large geographic regions such as the Amazon rainforest and polar ice sheets that are prone to reaching critical thresholds due to global warming. This research was conducted under the mentorship of Perrin Davidson in Daniel Rothman’s group at MIT.
In summer 2023, I participated in the Patterns and PDEs REU at Leiden University, advised by Paul Carter (UC Irvine) and Arjen Doelman (Leiden). There, I researched front dynamics in a reaction-diffusion model for tumor growth with Daniel Levy and Erin Okey. See the associated arXiv preprint and JMM presentation slides.

From summer 2023 to fall 2024, I served as the president of MIT’s Undergraduate Society for Women in Math (USWIM). I was a corporate relations chair from fall 2022 to spring 2023.
From fall 2021 to spring 2022, I was a board member for MIT’s Undergraduate Mathematics Association (UMA).

During the first few years of the NASA Exoplanet Watch program, I helped to expand its reach significantly through the Exoplanet Research Workshop (2020–2022), designing a publicly accessible curriculum and compiling online resources on exoplanet science and citizen astronomy. I presented on our work in astronomy and science education at the AGU Fall Meeting and the AAVSO Annual Meeting. In 2024, this work was featured in the open-access book How and When to Involve Crowds in Scientific Research.
As an intern with the Adler Zooniverse team in 2021, I co-authored the third volume of Into the Zooniverse, highlighting community-driven projects that aim to advance scientific progress.