Fall 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 8/30 | Organizational meeting | Talk registration |
| 9/13 | Nikita Borisov | 1,1,3,16,125,1296,… what’s next? |
| 9/20 | Julian Gould | A Day at the Casino |
| 9/27 | Viktor Alekseev | Why TQFT and CFT should be dual? Kazhdan–Lusztig correspondence |
| 10/11 | The Gia Hoang | Do you believe in the reflection principle? |
| 10/18 | Athina Avrantini | A mathematical headache |
| 10/25 | Daebeom Choi | What is a Scheme, and why do we need it? |
| 11/1 | Colton Griffin | viXra Paper Showcase |
| 11/8 | Jin Wei | Poor Cantor: The Reals Are Countable |
| 11/15 | Yam Felsenstein | Who would win? The Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem or 1 Triangle boi? |
| 11/22 | Ellis Buckminster | SL2(Z)oo |
| 12/6 | Carmine | Weird Semantics |
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 1/26 | Organizational meeting | Talk registration |
| 2/2 | Matthew Stevens | Conway’s Game of Life |
| 2/9 | Colton Griffin | The Life of Paul Erdos |
| 2/16 | Hunter, Yi, Maxine, Jin, Emmett | Prospectives day |
| 2/23 | Eben Blaisdell | Unprovability of Unprovability of … of Unprovability, Proven in the Multiverse |
| 3/1 | Krishan Canzius | How to eat infinite apples and win infinite games |
| 3/8 | Spring Break | |
| 3/15 | Maxine Calle | Algebraic K-theory and spaces |
| 3/22 | Athina Avrantini | ℤₚ-ordle |
| 3/29 | Julian Gould | History of Integration |
| 4/19 | Andrew Kwon | |
| 4/26 | Hunter Stufflebeam |
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Fall 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 9/1 | Organizational meeting | Talk registration |
| 9/8 | Jin Wei | Let’s Prove the Consistency of Peano Arithmetic |
| 9/16 | Emmett Lennen | Lines on Cubic Surfaces and Generalizations |
| 9/23 | Andrew Kwon | The Life and Mathematics of Friedrich Hirzebruch |
| 9/29 | Hoang The The Gia | Coincidences in dimension 8 and 24 |
| 10/6 | Maxine Calle | Configuration spaces are cool |
| 10/20 | Julian Gould | Mortality Mathematics |
| 10/27 | Satoru Gojo | The Math Behind Satoru Gojo’s Abilities |
| 11/3 | Yam Felsenstein | Tarski’s High School Algebra Problem |
| 11/10 | Colton Griffin | Path-Ordered Exponentials in Mathematical Physics |
| 11/10 | Eben Blaisdell | Parametric FCA for Fun and Profit |
Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Jan 27 | Organizational meeting | Talk registration |
| Feb 3 | Math Department | Prospective student event |
| Feb 17 | Thomas Brazelton | How to prevent nuclear war and then decide what to watch on Netflix |
| Feb 24 | Avik Chakravarty | How to count degrees of a projective variety? |
| Mar 3 | Handi Zhang | Neural operators: how nonlinear operators can be approximated by neural networks and what are the applications in real world? |
| Mar 10 | Spring Break | (no seminar) |
| Mar 17 | Jacob Van Hook | How to be a Gamer in the fourth dimension |
| Mar 24 | Nikita Borisov | A mathematical trip through quantum computing |
| Mar 31 | Professor Robin Pemantle | Solving equations |
| Apr 14 | Ellis Buckminster | Mapping class groups! |
| Apr 21 | Krishan Canzius | Ultrafilters, Ultraproducts, and Ultrapowers, Oh My! |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sep 2 | Organizational meeting | Talk registration |
| Sep 9 | Marte Julie Sætra | Computational modeling of ion concentration dynamics in brain tissue |
| Sep 16 | Julian Gould | So You Think YouKnow ℝ? |
| Sep 23 | Maxine Calle | Ideas of Morse theory and Floer theory |
| Sep 30 | Jin Wei | Life Pro Tip: How to responsibly obtain more real numbers |
| Oct 7 | Fall Break | (no seminar) |
| Oct 14 | Professor Charles Epstein | Interpolation, extrapolation and the miraculous Chebyshev polynomials |
| Oct 21 | Professor Randall Kamien | Applied Measured Foliations: Smectics! |
| Oct 28 | Elijah Gunther | Phantom 👻 Maps |
| Nov 4 | Yi Wang | Driving instructors HATE this simple trick!!!! |
| Nov 11 | Qishuo Yin | Covariate-Balancing-Aware Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Treatment Effect Estimation |
| Nov 18 | Leonardo Ferreira Guilhoto | What the heck is a “neural network”, anyway? (and why mathematicians should care) |
| Nov 25 | Thanksgiving | (no seminar) |
| Dec 2 | Thomas Brazelton | Social choice and topology |
Spring 2022
| Jan 21 | Organizational meeting | |
| Jan 28 | Thomas Brazelton | Elliptic Curves and the Surveillance State |
| Feb 4 | Andrew Kwon | A Leisurely Walk Through Diophantine Geometry |
| Feb 11 | Yi Wang | How you can (expect to) win money at a casino |
| Feb 18 | Hunter Stufflebeam | |
| Feb 25 | Xinxuan (Jennifer) Wang | |
| Mar 4 | Marielle Ong | Affine Springer fibers |
| Mar 11 | Spring break | (no seminar) |
| Mar 18 | Anschel Schaffer-Cohen | That’s not an infinite line. THAT’S an infinite line. |
| Mar 25 | Andres Mejia | Scissors Congruence and K-theory |
| Apr 1 | Alvaro Pintado | Hilbert’s Program and the Incompleteness Theorems |
| Apr 8 | Eben Blaisdell | Multiplying Integers (Yes, Really!) |
| Apr 15 | Krishan Canzius | The Compactness Theorem: a Tour Through the Wild World of Types |
| Apr 22 | Prof. Angela Gibney | Introduction to the moduli space of curves and vector bundles of conformal blocks |
| Apr 29 | Pizza party |
Fall 2021
| Sep 3 | Welcome meeting | |
| Sep 10 | Ryan Brill | Horse Racing, Kelly Betting, and Unintuitive Bets |
| Sep 17 | Julian Gould | Mathematics in the Third Reich |
| Sep 24 | Anschel Schaffer-Cohen | Ordinal numbers and (weird) topology |
| Oct 1 | Travis Leadbetter | The best pace |
| Oct 8 | Jacob van Hook | Tic-Tac-Toe variants on finite geometries |
| Oct 15 | No meeting (Fall break) | |
| Oct 22 | Artur Saturnino | Causality |
| Oct 29 | Miguel Lopez | Multiplication Tricks Mathematicians DON’T Want You To Know |
| Nov 5 | Junyu Ma | |
| Nov 12 | Mid-semester Party | organized by Yi Wang and Jacob van Hook |
| Nov 19 | Jianing Yang | Fundamental groups in characteristic p |
| Nov 26 | No meeting (Thanksgiving break) | |
| Dec 3 | Prof. Daniel Krashen | Can you hear the shape of a division algebra? |
| Dec 10 | Prof. Yumeng Ou | Falconer type problems for finite point configurations |
Spring 2021
No meetings due to COVID-19.
Fall 2020 (virtual)
| Sep 11 | Yao-Rui Yeo | Jacobi Polynomials via Pictures |
| Sep 18 | Julian Gould | Infinite Ethics |
| Sep 25 | Man Cheung Tsui | Differential Galois theory |
| Oct 2 | Andrew Kwon | High School Number Theory — A Mystery |
| Oct 9 | Anschel Schaffer-Cohen | Infinite Type Surfaces |
| Oct 16 | Paige North | Univalent Foundations |
| Oct 23 | Eben Blaisdell | Partial Resolutions of the Nivat Conjecture |
| Oct 30 | Prof. Julia Hartmann | Local-Global Principles for Linear Algebraic Groups |
| Nov 6 | Eric Goodman | Peter Doyle’s New Age Solitaire and Card Shuffling |
| Nov 20 | Andres Mejia | Sphere Eversion |
| Dec 4 | Thomas Brazelton | Gimbal Lock: A Gimbal Talk |
| Dec 11 | Industry Speaker | Industry Talk |
Spring 2020
| Jan 24 | Julian Gould | Basic Personal Finance |
| Jan 31 | Anschel Schaffer-Cohen | My favorite numerical algorithm |
| Feb 7 | Darrick Lee | Iterated integrals |
| Feb 14 | Artur Bicalho-Saturnino | Qbits and prime factorization |
| Feb 21 | Jackson Goodman | Zeros and Fixed points |
| Feb 28 | Prof. Philip Gressman | Geometry, Combinatorics, and Invariant Theory in Harmonic Analysis |
| Mar 6 | Esteban Paduro | The power of the weak solutions |
| Mar 20 | Party | Cancelled |
| Mar 28 | Eben Blaisdell | Cancelled |
| Apr 3 | Yao-Rui Yeo | Cancelled |
| Apr 10 | Man Cheung Tsui | Cancelled |
| Apr 17 | Professor Davi Maximo | Cancelled |
| Apr 24 | Jia Choon Lee | Cancelled |
Fall 2019
| Sep 6 | Benedict Morrissey | Introduction to Teichmuller space |
| Sep 13 | Anschel Schaffer-Cohen | Geometry: but why? |
| Sep 20 | Jackson Goodman | Positive curvature and topology |
| Sep 27 | Yao-Rui Yeo | Music 101 for science people |
| Oct 4 | George Wang | Succeeding in grad school |
| Oct 18 | Prof. Henry Towsner | The Erdos Sumset Conjecture |
| Oct 25 | Weichen Zhou | Introduction to First-passage Percolation |
| Nov 1 | Party | |
| Nov 8 | Darrick Lee | Cohomology and Paradox |
| Nov 15 | Hunter Stufflebeam | Soviet Mathematics the Productivity of Mathematicians post 1991 |
| Nov 22 | Michael Gerapetritis | Local “Geometry” |
| Dec 6 | Prof. Mona Merling | An advertisement for Algebraic K-theory |
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
| Apr 20 | Darrick Lee | Higher Categories |
| Apr 13 | Prof. Scott Weinstein | Mathematical Logic: Structure and Language |
| Apr 6 | Esteban Paduro | On the Nash embedding theorems |
| Mar 30 | Huy Mai | Euler integral transform |
| Mar 23 | Weichen Zhou | Elliptic Curves Over C With Complex Multiplication |
| Mar 16 | Yao-Rui Yeo | Congruent Numbers |
| Mar 2 | Jakob Hansen | |
| Feb 23 | Anschel Schaffer-Cohen | |
| Feb 16 | Prof. Stephanie Dick (History) | |
| Feb 9 | Jackson Goodman | |
| Feb 2 | Marcus Michelen | |
| Jan 26 | Benedict Morrissey | |
| Jan 19 | Anschel Schaffer-Cohen |
Fall 2017
