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Megan Martin

Megan Martin is a research associate at the University of California, San Francisco, exploring brain development in patients with congenital heart defects. She discovered the thrill of recreational problem solving in her math circles class as an undergraduate student of mathematics at the University of San Francisco.

Cornelia A. Van Cott

Cornelia A. Van Cott is a mathematics professor at the University of San Francisco. She first learned that slicing up triangles could engage both her love of drawing and her love of math when she attended a talk by Mark Meyerson (from whom the catchphrase “halving it all” originated).

Qiyu Zhang

Qiyu Zhang is a first-year graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle studying mathematics. She was a math and physics double major at the University of San Francisco.

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