{"id":38684,"date":"2024-12-13T07:08:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=38684"},"modified":"2024-12-13T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:24:54","slug":"this-sophomore-is-using-his-passion-for-physics-and-math-to-help-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/this-sophomore-is-using-his-passion-for-physics-and-math-to-help-others\/","title":{"rendered":"This Sophomore Is Using His Passion For Physics And Math To Help Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">V\u00edctor Gonz\u00e1lez discovered his passion for physics and mathematics in the fourth grade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in Cuba, he struggled to find resources to feed his curiosity.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, a laptop he was gifted at the age of nine was a game changer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI started looking at Wikipedia for articles about math and scientists like Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and this world of physics,\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez said. \u201cI [said,] \u2018Oh, this is really cool. I would like to investigate more.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, Gonz\u00e1lez\u2014a sophomore studying mathematics in the Honors College at Kendall Campus\u2014is researching the topics that captivated him as a child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Dec. 6, the 21-year-old co-published his third scholarly research paper entitled, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2412.05261#:~:text=A%20semidomain%20is%20a%20subsemiring,of%20finitely%20many%20prime%20elements.\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Localization of unique factorization semidomains<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 11-page paper, featured in Cornell University\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arXiv<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> research platform, was completed under the guidance of Harold Polo, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Irvine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the last two years, Gonz\u00e1lez has co-published <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the ascent of almost and quasi-atomicity to monoid semidomains<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2401.12444\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the atomicity of power monoids of Puiseux monoids<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The latter is featured in the International Journal of Algebra and Computation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s truly impressive to see how much V\u00edctor is already contributing to the mathematical community at such a young age,\u201d Polo said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gonz\u00e1lez grew up participating in olympiads in Cuba that required him to solve complex math and physics problems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI [would] say, \u2018Oh, my God, I love to do these, to go deep into questions and just think about [them,]\u201d he recalls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During high school, Gonz\u00e1lez, who attended <a href=\"https:\/\/cu.linkedin.com\/school\/ipvce-lenin\/\">Instituto Preuniversitario Vocacional de Ciencias Exactas Vlad\u00edmir Ilich Lenin<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, participated in the country\u2019s annual National Knowledge Contest twice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite lacking resources to prepare for the physics competition the first time, he made due\u2014with translated Russian textbooks\u2014winning a gold medal both years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gonz\u00e1lez also participated in the Iberoamerican Physics Olympics in El Salvador, where he earned a silver medal, and the Iranian Geometry Olympiad, which was held virtually during the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In August of 2022, the aspiring mathematician immigrated to the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was a very, very hard decision\u2026\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez recalls. \u201cI was really worried to start again, [in] a new country [where] I didn&#8217;t know the language, how things work[ed], and I didn&#8217;t want to leave my mom and my grandma alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, his desire to provide a better life for his mom and grandmother pushed him to persevere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to leaving Cuba, Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s former professor connected him with a mentee, Felix Gotti, a postdoctoral fellow and research coordinator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After witnessing the young man\u2019s interest in mathematics, Gotti introduced him to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/artofproblemsolving.com\/polymath?srsltid=AfmBOoqy0IKRFAE26fyUrxtDeAXbXNYcArOT8jQG5BFzOO9cO9_tom9x\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CrowdMath<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a research program through MIT that has allowed him to co-publish his three research papers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Miami Dade College, Gonz\u00e1lez is using his love for physics and mathematics to help his peers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He serves as a founding member of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sharknet.mdc.edu\/organization\/math4u\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Math4U<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a nonprofit organization that aims to ensure everyone, especially immigrant students, have access to math tutoring\u2014and tutors first-year Honors College students at Eduardo J. Padr\u00f3n Campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI would describe V\u00edctor as already a success story,\u201d said Maria Diaz-Medina, an academic advisor from the World Languages Department who met Gonz\u00e1lez last January. \u201cDespite all his academic and personal accomplishments at such an early age, V\u00edctor is a very humble person and is very committed to giving back to the community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gonz\u00e1lez is slated to graduate with an associate\u2019s of arts degree in mathematics from MDC this spring. He aspires to transfer to MIT and obtain a doctoral degree in mathematics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.us19.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4fc6146412415baee32007fd7&amp;id=b5cd3712dc\"> here<\/a><\/span> to subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter, The Hammerhead. 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