63rd Annual STS (2003-2004)
Finalists
Amos Benjamin Lubin

VERMONT
Amos Benjamin Lubin, 17, of Norwich, submitted an Intel Science Talent Search project in mathematics that considers a problem in the field of differential geometry. Amos's paper studies hypersurfaces in certain non-Riemannian geometries. The basic object he studied is called de Sitter space (a concept that is similar to a sphere) which contains hypersurfaces. He finds an inequality relating their curvature and dimension with the length of an associated tensor. De Sitter space is important in physics and is also of much interest to string theorists. First in his class of 190 at Hanover High School in Hanover, N.H., Amos played junior varsity tennis and has served as an officer for the chess club. He has earned numerous mathematics honors as well as the Harvard Book Prize, Gold Medals in three National Latin Exams and a certificate of honor from Concours National de Français. Amos, who has perfect SAT scores, is the son of Adam and Victoria Lubin and hopes to attend Harvard. Eventually he would like to contribute to the field of mathematical physics in its continual search for fundamental physical theories that are ever more broad, simple and elegant.