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 5402

 
Date Speaker Title
10/09 Pieter Spaas Fantastic noncommutative topological spaces and where to find them
10/16 Thomas Grubb Permutation Patterns and Schubert Varieties
10/23 Daniel Kroes Extremal set theory and applications to geometry
10/30 Krystyna Kolodziej Composition of specific cell-types in the human brain: Deconvolution through cell-type specific DNA methylation
11/06 Oisin Parkinson-Coombs Math Anxiety
11/13 Yuchao Liu Fantastic elevated submatrices and where to find them
11/20 No fft...
11/27 Sam Spiro Polynomial relations of matrices of graphs
12/04 Francois Thilmany Tilings of the hyperbolic plane
 

For last quarter's schedule, click here.

For the current schedule, click here.

Organizers:

Michelle Bodnar, Pieter Spaas, Eric Lybrand,
Kuang Thamrongpairoj, Stephan Weispfenning

Contact:

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

This event is sponsored by the GSA. Thanks!

 

 

Department of Mathematics
University of California, San Diego.

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