63rd Annual STS (2003-2004)
Finalists
Eduard Reznik

NEW YORK
Eduard Reznik, 17, of East Setauket, entered a physics project in the Intel Science Talent Search describing his discovery of new families of solutions to Einstein's equations for certain types of stars that do not rotate. Some of the densest matter in the universe is concentrated within the centers of neutron stars and quark-matter stars, also called strange stars. Yet the internal structure of these stars is still a matter of controversy in the astrophysical community. To complete his project, Ed developed from scratch a computer code in Mathematica, a science programming language. His analytical solutions provide a simple set of functions describing various properties of these compact stars, including mass, energy density and pressure. First in his class of 596 at Ward Melville High School, Ed enjoys the philosophy, science, math and engineering clubs as well as ultimate frisbee, the Long Island diplomacy club and alternative modes of music. The Ukraine-born senior, who is fluent in Russian, hopes to study electrical engineering at Cooper Union. The son of Grigory and Edita Reznik, Ed would like to help find a more efficient means of data communication through research in nanoelectronics.