Food For Thought Seminar
  

The primary goal of this seminar is to cover interesting and important ideas and techniques in math in a way that is accessible to a general graduate student audience. We aim to cover topics that either (1) encompass milestones in mathematical thinking, and/or (2) explain the basic ideas and mode of operation of a specific area of math. The flavor of the talks will be idea-oriented rather than definition-theorem-proof oriented, so that the major ideas are conveyed without getting bogged down in technicalities and details. We hope to cover some beautiful and important math in a way that every graduate student can gain from.

Also, we have food for stomach.

Meets: Mondays, 12pm-1pm, AP&M 7421
 
Date Speaker Title
09/26 Sasha Ayvazov Brain Drain: AI Winters and the History of Neural Networks
10/03 Daniel Kroes The edge reconstruction of graphs
10/10 David Lenz A Quick Foray into Topological Data Analysis
10/17 Kuang Thamrongpairoj From Signed Permutations to Generating Functions and how some enumerative combinatorialists (like me) do research
10/24 Brian Preskitt How to Not Do Combinatorics
10/31 Francois Thilmany Quadratic forms
11/07 Pieter Spaas Fun with Banach-Tarski, paradoxical decompositions and amenability.
11/14 Daniel Copeland Improve Your Learning with a Quantum Computer!
11/21 Aaron Nelson About Phase: Resolving Phase Errors in Synthetic Aperture Radar
11/28 Robbie Snellman Id\`{e}les and ideals
 

For last quarter's schedule, click here.

For the current schedule, click here.

Organizers:

Daniel Smith, Calum Spicer, Sinan Aksoy, Michelle Bodnar,
Kuang Thamrongpairoj, Stephan Weispfenning, Sasha Ayvazov, Pieter Spaas

Contact:

Want to speak in the seminar? Send us an email with your topic idea!

Don't know what to talk about? Here are some ideas!

This event is sponsored by the GSA. Thanks!

 

 

Department of Mathematics
University of California, San Diego.

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