Rachel Lawrence
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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I am an AI researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, with the goal of improving the…
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We had so much fun joining forces with Pillar VC's Encode: AI for Science and Innovate Cambridge last week for a morning that captured the best of…
We had so much fun joining forces with Pillar VC's Encode: AI for Science and Innovate Cambridge last week for a morning that captured the best of…
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Excited to announce an event that I have been organising with Carlos Vonessen, alongside FutureHouse and Ligo Biosciences! Join us at the AI x Bio…
Excited to announce an event that I have been organising with Carlos Vonessen, alongside FutureHouse and Ligo Biosciences! Join us at the AI x Bio…
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This week I have started a new job as AI Research Lead at the Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford in Oxford. It has been a blast already to join…
This week I have started a new job as AI Research Lead at the Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford in Oxford. It has been a blast already to join…
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Counting Arcs in Projective Planes via Glynn's Algorithm
Journal of Geometry
An n-arc in a projective plane is a collection of n distinct points in the plane, no three of which lie on a line. Formulas counting the number of n-arcs in any finite projective plane of order q are known for n≤8. In 1995, Iampolskaia, Skorobogatov, and Sorokin counted 9-arcs in the projective plane over a finite field of order q and showed that this count is a quasipolynomial function of q. We present a formula for the number of 9-arcs in any projective plane of order q, even those that are…
An n-arc in a projective plane is a collection of n distinct points in the plane, no three of which lie on a line. Formulas counting the number of n-arcs in any finite projective plane of order q are known for n≤8. In 1995, Iampolskaia, Skorobogatov, and Sorokin counted 9-arcs in the projective plane over a finite field of order q and showed that this count is a quasipolynomial function of q. We present a formula for the number of 9-arcs in any projective plane of order q, even those that are non-Desarguesian, deriving Iampolskaia, Skorobogatov, and Sorokin's formula as a special case. We obtain our formula from a new implementation of an algorithm due to Glynn; we give details of our implementation and discuss its consequences for larger arcs.
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Courses
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Abstract Algebra
MATH 350
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Advanced Matrix Computations
MATH 221
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An Algorithmist's Toolkit
CPSC 665
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Beyond Worst Case Analysis
CS 294
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Combinatorial Algorithms and Data Structures
CS 270
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Computational Complexity
CPSC 468
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Data Analysis
AMTH 361
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Data Structures and Programming Techniques
CPSC 223
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Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CPSC 365
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Discrete Mathematics
MATH 244
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Machine Learning in Social Dynamics
CS 294
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Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
APHY 194
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Randomized Algorithms
CPSC 469
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Randomness and Computation
CS 271
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Real Analysis
MATH 300
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Security in Computer Systems
CS 261
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Statistical Learning Theory
CS C281A
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Stochastic Processes
MATH 251
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Sums of Squares
CS 294
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Systems Programming and Computer Organization
CPSC 323
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Theoretical Challenges in Network Science
ENAS 962
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Vector Analysis
MATH 250
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Vector Calculus and Linear Algebra
MATH 230
Honors & Awards
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National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship
United States Department of Defense
National fellowship supporting duration of graduate study, sponsored by the US Department of Defense
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SUMRY Fellowship
Yale College
Awarded for 10-week intensive summer research program at the Yale Department of Mathematics
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Davenport College Richter Fellowship
Yale College
Yale College fellowship awarded for independent study and research.
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Yale College Dean's Research Fellowship
Yale College
Research fellowship awarded for undergraduate work in STEM. Received twice, in 2013 and 2014.
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Are today’s language models truly reasoning—or just memorizing and pattern-matching? In my recent post on the MSR blog, we introduce RE-IMAGINE, a…
Are today’s language models truly reasoning—or just memorizing and pattern-matching? In my recent post on the MSR blog, we introduce RE-IMAGINE, a…
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While it's taken me a while to write this post, I'm thrilled to announce that I have officially started my position as a Climate Resilience Project…
While it's taken me a while to write this post, I'm thrilled to announce that I have officially started my position as a Climate Resilience Project…
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Happy to share that our paper “RE-IMAGINE: Symbolic Benchmark Synthesis for Reasoning Evaluation” has been accepted to ICML 2025. Most benchmarks…
Happy to share that our paper “RE-IMAGINE: Symbolic Benchmark Synthesis for Reasoning Evaluation” has been accepted to ICML 2025. Most benchmarks…
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I'm very excited to be giving a keynote talk at the Climate Change AI Workshop 🌎 🌐 at #NeurIPS2024 on Sunday. My talk, "Where methods meet impact…
I'm very excited to be giving a keynote talk at the Climate Change AI Workshop 🌎 🌐 at #NeurIPS2024 on Sunday. My talk, "Where methods meet impact…
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Super excited to have this project recognized in my first Hackathon at MSR! #JudgeGPT is a small step towards helping people recognize fake news, as…
Super excited to have this project recognized in my first Hackathon at MSR! #JudgeGPT is a small step towards helping people recognize fake news, as…
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ICYMI - my #CppCon talk on high performance array programming with Halide will be re-broadcast live on YouTube this Tuesday (9/29) at 11:00am…
ICYMI - my #CppCon talk on high performance array programming with Halide will be re-broadcast live on YouTube this Tuesday (9/29) at 11:00am…
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Infleqtion
Quantum computing just crossed a new threshold: logical qubits are now executing #Shor’sAlgorithm. Why does that matter? Logical qubits can outperform physical qubits on real-world tasks, like factoring, and Infleqtion’s 2.5:1 physical-to-logical ratio shows how scaling quantum systems is within reach. #Infleqtion’s Peter Noell joins Konstantinos Karagiannis on The Post-Quantum World to explore: ✔️ Why this milestone matters for post-quantum cryptography ✔️ How logical qubits are reshaping scalability timelines ✔️ What’s next for building fault-tolerant quantum systems 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gwbbtgh7 #QuantumComputing #PostQuantumWorld #Protiviti #NeutralAtoms
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Business Weekly newspaper
The Wellcome Sanger Institute has chosen Quantinuum's quantum computer option to explore fresh solutions in complex genomics in a global triumph for Cambridge. It was 25 years ago that scientists accomplished a task likened to a biological moonshot: the sequencing of the entire human genome – led globally by The Sanger Institute. The Human Genome Project revealed a complete human blueprint comprising around three billion base pairs, the chemical building blocks of DNA. It led to breakthrough medical treatments, scientific discoveries, and a new understanding of the biological functions of our body. Thanks to technological advances in the quarter-century since, what took 13 years and cost $2.7 billion then can now be done in under 12 minutes for a few hundred dollars, Quantinuum reveals. Rajeeb Hazra, President and CEO of Quantinuum, said: “We were honoured to be selected by the Sanger Institute to partner in tackling some of the most complex challenges in genomics. By bringing the world’s highest performing quantum computers to this collaboration, we will help the team push the limits of genomics research with quantum algorithms and open new possibilities for health and medical science.” The seeds of the Quantinuum-Sanger Institute collaboration were sown in Cambridge at a round table on responsible computing staged in October 2024, hosted by Quantinuum and Business Weekly. Quantinuum, whose $10 billion valuation was confirmed today, sponsored the groundbreaking event held at the headquarters of law firm Mills & Reeve in Cambridge. The Sanger Institute unveiled its infant plans at that stage and superchip giant Arm talked about compute power with responsibility at the round table which involved University of Cambridge and University of Oxford academics and corporate trailblazers. Full article – https://lnkd.in/dqVQ_KZg
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MIT Jameel Clinic
How can AI "look up" molecules to make better predictions? 🔍 Runzhong Wang, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of MIT Jameel Clinic PI Connor W. Coley, presents MARASON, which was recently presented at [ICML] Int'l Conference on Machine Learning 2025. Retrieval-augmented generation (a.k.a. RAG) is a technique that allows large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google DeepMind's Gemini, to retrieve and incorporate new information in response to a query. But the optimal integration of this technique into "looking up" molecules remains unclear. 🏃 Enter MARASON, which uses neural graph matching to directly compare two molecular structures. MARASON reached 28% top-1 accuracy (getting the right answer on the first try) compared to 19% for the best non-retrieval methods. 📄 Paper: https://lnkd.in/ex7KqGbi 👥 Co-authors: Rui-Xi Wang, Mrunali M., Connor W. Coley #aiforgood #aiforhealth #computationalchemistry #moleculardesign
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