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 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

Past Seminars

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

Past Seminars

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