Quinn Mayo

College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States.

Contact

Institutional E-Mail: qmayo [at] umass [dot] edu

Personal E-Mail: quinnmayo [at] protonmail [dot] com

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About

I am a master's student and Baystate Fellow at UMass Amherst studying computational complexity theory. I am particularly interested in correlation bounds and metacomplexity currently. I received my B.S. with honors in computer science and mathematics at UMass in Spring 2025. I completed my senior thesis under the supervision of David A. Mix Barrington and Eric Allender.

News

• (2025-07-06) I am attending the Park City Mathematics Institute's Undergraduate Summer School for 20 days in Park City, Utah. The topic this year is extremal combinatorics.
• (2025-05-16) I was one of seventeen awarded the Bay State Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year at UMass Amherst.
• (2024-08-12) The Polymath Jr. program has ended. I am continuing to work on a conjecture we developed throughout the Fall, and the results will be published sometime next Spring..
• (2024-07-28) I will be attending the DIMACS Frontiers in Complexity Theory workshop at Rutgers University from July 29th through August 1st.
• (2024-07-24) I am participating in a project on combinatorial commutative algebra as part of the Polymath Jr. REU.

Papers

• 2025. Constructions of Macaulay Posets and Macaulay Rings. Alexandra Seceleanu et al. (incl. *Quinlan Mayo). Submitted to The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. (PDF)
• 2025. Lindström Quantifiers and First-Order Complexity. Quinlan Mayo. Unpublished Honors Thesis. (PDF)

Presentations

• 2025. On the Spectral Properties of K_{m_1,...,m_r} and the Permutohedron. Dmytro Antonovych, Evan Glasgow, *Quinlan Mayo, Nathaniel Shaffer, Niccolo Turillo. Presentation, Park City Mathematics Institute. (PDF)

Links

• Former UMass student and esteemed UCA Ben Burns has some excellent advice about undergraduate research in theoretical computer science at UMass.
• Professor Jenia Tevelev also has some good advice about undergraduate research in pure mathematics.
• The CICS has a Theory Group with a weekly seminar that you should go to if you are interested in TCS.
• We have an undergraduate theory club, but it doesn't have any social media yet... (ask me about it ;))

"Go to the roots of these calculations! Group the operations. Classify them according to their complexities rather than their appearances! This, I believe, is the mission of future mathematicians."—Evariste Galois