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 |
| 01/22 | Eric Lybrand | Compressed Sensing and Random Matrices |
| 01/29 | Thomas Grubb | Primality Testing and Integer Factorization |
| 02/05 | Pieter Spaas | Classifiable, or not classifiable, that is the question |
| 02/12 | Ching Wei Ho | (Hopefully Very) Basics of Segal - Bargmann Transform |
| 02/19 | Free day, do something else than math! | |
| 02/26 | Jun Bo Lau | Modular forms (and where to find them) |
| 03/05 | Jason O'Neill | Building new posets from old: The Tesler poset |
| 03/12 | BBC documentary | Fermat's Last Theorem |
For last quarter's schedule, click here. For the current schedule, click here. Organizers: Contact: Want to speak in the seminar? Send us an email with your topic idea! This event is sponsored by the GSA. Thanks!
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