Graduate Student Seminar
This page is for information pertinent specifically to the graduate student seminar, which meets on Fridays from noon-1:00 in 456 Snow. Information about other seminars can be found at the department Seminars & Colloquia page.
Spring 2020
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 5/8/2020 | Justin Lyle, Hamid Mofidi and Wesley Perkins | Preparing for and Applying in Today's Job Market |
| 2/28/2020 | Trevor Arrigoni | A quick introduction to p-adic numbers |
| 2/7/2020 | Organizational Meeting |
Past Seminars
Fall 2019
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 12/6/2019 | Souvik Dey | On the number of defining equations of algebraic sets |
| 11/22/2019 | John Mangles | Models in Quantum Chemistry, and Electron Energy Approximations |
| 11/15/2019 | Mark Embree | Demystifying the Professional CV |
| 11/1/2019 | Ryan Frier | Strichartz Inequality |
| 10/25/2019 | Jonathan Rosofsky | Hamiltonian graphs and the four color theorem |
| 10/18/2019 | Jaron Williams | Semiclassically modeling Hydrogen at Rydberg states immersed in electromagnetic fields |
| 10/11/2019 | Debjit Basu | Resolution of Singularities |
| 10/4/2019 | Trevor Arrigoni | Infinite Chomp: A Finite Game? |
| 9/27/2019 | Tommy Stoller | Global Stability Analysis of Disease Models |
| 9/20/2019 | Raul Bolanos | Mathematical Olympiad Treasures |
| 9/13/2019 | Organizational Meeting |
Spring 2019
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 5/3/2019 | Wesley Perkins | Existence of Periodic Traveling Waves for the Coduit Equation |
| 4/19/2019 | Souvik Dey | Polynomial methods in Combinatorics |
| 4/12/2019 | Raul Bolanos Guerrero | Fun with cylinders, cones, surfaces of revolution and Lagrange multipliers |
| 4/5/2019 | Agnieszka Miedlar | How to build a professional website? |
| 3/29/2019 | Trevor Arrigoni | A Survey on the Structure of Inverse Semigroups |
| 3/22/2019 | Qiang Shi | Teaching University Interview Preparation |
| 3/1/2019 | Jonathan Rosofsky | Tilings in the Euclidean and Hyperbolic Planes |
| 2/22/2019 | Cody Charles | Social Justice 101 |
| 2/1/2019 | Organizational Meeting |
Fall 2018
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11/30/2018 | Dylan Beck | Equidecomposable Sets and the Banach-Tarski Paradox |
| 11/16/2018 | Bibekananda Mishra | Can you differentiate between cupcakes and donuts? |
| 11/9/2018 | Ben Gershon | Coding Theory with Linear and Cyclic Codes |
| 11/2/2018 | Tommy Stoller | Exploring optimal stopping through the secretary problem |
| 10/26/2018 | Emma Christensen | Fun with Minkowski Sums |
| 10/5/2018 | Ryan Frier | The History of Compactness |
| 9/21/2018 | Lucian Grand | Sums of Powers of Integers |
| 9/7/2018 | Organizational Meeting |
Spring 2018
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4/27/2018 | Justin Lyle | Fun with Free Resolutions |
| 4/20/2018 | Lucian Grand | Up in Smoke: Dhar's Burning Algorithm on Trees |
| 4/13/2018 | Professional Development Workshop | |
| 4/6/2018 | Lisa Langland | Wanna Play a Game: an Introduction into Combinatoric Game Theory |
| 3/30/2018 | Tommy Stoller | Exploring the Central Limit Theorem |
| 3/9/2018 | Abba Ramadan | Existence of Traveling Waves for a Class of Nonlocal Nonlinear Equations with Bell Shaped Kernels |
| 3/2/2018 | Professional Development Workshop | |
| 2/23/2018 | Dylan Beck | Ethics in Mathematics: a Brief History of Mathematical Proofs |
| 2/9/2018 | Sefika Kuzgun | Different proofs of infinitude of primes |
| 2/2/2018 | Lucian Grand | Exploring the function sinx/x |
| 1/26/2018 | Organizational Meeting | |
Fall 2017
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 12/1/2017 | Emma Christensen | Pattern Avoidance in Set Partitions |
| 11/17/2017 | Jonatan Barreiro Bastos | Generating Functions |
| 11/10/2017 | Kevin Marshall | Fun with Catalan Numbers |
| 11/3/2017 | John Mangles | Security Questions for a Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution |
| 10/27/2017 | Ryan Frier | Wavelet-Based Acoustic Classification of Bird Species |
| 9/29/2017 | Cassidy Krause | Remote Image Sensing Classification |
| 9/1/2017 | Organizational Meeting | |
Spring 2017
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4/21/2017 | Justin Lyle | Categorical Constructions: A Beginner's Guide to Abstract Nonsense |
| 4/14/2017 | Nick Oderio | An Introduction to Sabermetrics |
| 4/7/2017 | Wesley Perkins | How to Avoid a Circle of Zero Radius |
| 3/10/2017 | Bennet Goeckner | What's Up with Up Words? |
| 3/3/2017 | Tommy Gebhardt | Understanding Ultimate: Numerical Modeling and Optimization in Sports Analytics |
| 2/24/2017 | Harry Gaebler | A Little Bit About Semigroups |
| 2/10/2017 | Arturo Jaramillo Gil | A Geometric View of Interest Rate Theory |
| 1/20/2017 | Organizational Meeting | |
Fall 2016
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11/11/2016 | Amanda Wilkens | Bernoulli Shifts over Free Groups |
| 11/4/2016 | Cassidy Krause | Assimilating the Data on Data Assimilation |
| 10/28/2016 | Dylan Beck | A Glimpse at Paradoxical Decompositions and the Banach-Tarski Paradox |
| 10/21/2016 | Ken Duna | Fun with Parking Functions and Hyperplane Arrangements |
| 10/14/2016 | Satbir Malhi | Asymptotic and Polynomial Decay of C_0-Semigroups |
| 9/30/2016 | Arturo Jaramillo Gil | The Five Natural Notions of Independence |
| 9/23/2016 | Deba Raychaudhury | An Introduction to Number Theory |
| 9/9/2016 | Organizational Meeting | |
Spring 2016
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4/29/2016 | Bhargob Saikia | Some Basic Results in Ergodic Theory |
| 4/22/2016 | Jayan Mukherjee | Grassmannian Variety |
| 4/15/2016 | Amanda Wilkens | A Geometric and Algebraic Investigation of the Lamplighter Group |
| 4/8/2016 | Avary Kolasinski | Fun with Matrix Derivatives |
| 4/1/2016 | Peter Lewis | A Probabilistic Proof of the Weierstrass Approximation Theorem |
| 3/11/2016 | Kyle Claassen | Irrationality of Pi and Convergence of Series |
| 2/26/2016 | Bennet Goeckner | Fun with Catalan Numbers |
| 2/12/2016 | Ken Duna | Infinite Fun with Representations of Finite Groups |
Fall 2015
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10/23/2015 | Andrew Steyer | Asymptotic Stability of Numerical Methods for Solving Initial Value Differential Equations |
| 9/25/2015 | Peter Lewis | A Fun Probability Problem with Almost No Probability |
| 9/11/2015 | Joseph Doolittle | Organizational Meeting; Restrictions on the range of the covariances of three Bernoulli variables |
Spring 2015
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4/10/2015 | Leonard Huang | Hilbert's Third Problem and the Dehn Invariant |
| 3/27/2015 | John Reynolds | Sequences, Filters and Convergence Spaces |
| 3/6/2015 | Cody Clifton | Introduction to PageRank |
| 2/20/2015 | Kevin Adams | Kernels and Digraphs |
| 2/6/2015 | Billy Sanders | Fun with Linear Algebra |
Fall 2014
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11/21/2014 | Kyle Claassen | A Nonrigorous Exploration of Fractional Calculus |
| 11/7/2014 | Bennet Goeckner | Shelling Simplicial Complexes |
| 10/31/2014 | Lucas Chaffee | The Basics of the Fourier Transform |
| 10/24/2014 | Nitin Aggarwal | An Intuitive Introduction to Shieves |
| 10/17/2014 | Billy Sanders | An Intuitive Introduction to Derived Categories |
| 10/3/2014 | Ken Duna | An Introduction to Stanley-Reisner Rings and Simplicial Complexes |
| 9/26/2014 | Andrew Steyer | Numerical Differentiation: Practical and Theoretical Aspects |
| 9/19/2014 | John Reynolds | Ramsey Theory and Weakly Compact Cardinals |
| 9/5/2014 | Organizational meeting | |
Fall 2013
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11/22/2013 | Nicholas Ma | Character Classification by Supervised Machine Learning |
| 11/8/2013 | Avary Kolasinski | Fun with Applications of Math |
| 10/25/2013 | Connor Smith | The Hausdorff Dimension of the Cantor Set |
| 10/11/2013 | Luke Eichelberger | Voting Systems and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem |
| 10/4/2013 | Bryan Harris | Brief intro to Non-Euclidian Geometry |
| 9/13/2013 | Ken Duna | Toeplicity of Products of Composition Operators and Their Adjoints |
