Dima Smirnov '17 spent the summer of 2016 as a Computational Topology Research Assistant at the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research culminated in the paper “Triplet Merge Trees,” for which he is the first author. His co/second author is his advisor at Berkeley Lab, Dmitriy Morozov. Dima’s paper was accepted at the international conference, Topology-Based Methods in Visualization, held at Keio University in Tokyo. This is a significant achievement for one of our math majors—he is the first author of a paper (whose second author is a Berkeley Lab scientist) that was accepted at an international workshop whose participants are typically established scholars in the field, not undergraduates. Dima didn’t stop there, he graduated having had four papers published---where did he find the time!?!