Speakers and titles in reverse Chronological order:

Note: for talks in fall 2004 and later, click on a title to go to the site listing all abstracts.

Winners of the semesterly "Favorite talk" award are listed in bold, with a pizza slice. Ties are possible, so there may be more than one per semester.

Spring 2024

• Fanxin Wu, Hong Chen, Robert Dougherty-Bliss, Omar Aceval Garcia, Timothy Bates, Nicholas Backes, Brian Pinsky, Carlos Tapp Monfort, Riley Guyett, Leonidas Daskalakis: 5-minute talks
• Rutgers AMS chapter: Integration bee
• Danae Rupp: Numbers 2.0™: New and Improved
• Nicholas Backes: p Is For Pizza
• Brooke Ogrodnik, Patrick Devlin, Ian Coley, George Spahn, Charles Kenney: Industry job panel
• Riley Guyett: What is a Number?
• Sriram Raghunath: Seeing the fourth dimension
• Sam Wallace: Modelling Elasticity and Origami
• Lawrence Frolov: Larry explains multiplication
• Devin Bristow: Topics, Theorems, and Techniques in Symplectic Topology
• Nkhalo Malawo: Particles and Leaks and Barriers, Oh my!
• Max Aires: Comparing Elements in Posets via Geometry
• Fanxin Wu: Why can you double a ball but not a pizza?

Fall 2023

• Fanxin Wu, Nicholas Backes, Joy Hamlin, Timothy Bates, Lawrence Frolov, Minhao Bai, Brian Pinsky, Scott James, Ben-Zion Weltsch, Danae Rupp: 5-minute talks
• Charles Kenney: Log Convex Functions and the Drop-Spread Algorithm
• Fanxin Wu: Math trivia qual
• Natasha Ter-Saakov: Origami crease patterns and how to color them
• Lucy Martinez: The chip-firing game and more
• Hannah Hasan: Epistemic Logic on Simplicial Complexes
• Ishaan Shah: Distinguishing Trees
• Nilava Metya: Complexity of optimization
• Nick Backes: An Introduction to the Riemann Zeta Function
• Scott James: A Muddle Puddle Tweetle Poodle Needle Noodle Bottle Paddle Battle (Season 2)
• Joy Hamlin: Information About Information
• Fanxin Wu: p-adic numbers and linear recurrence relations

Spring 2023

• Larry Frolov, Joy Hamlin, Brian Pinsky, Sriram Raghunath, Nick Backes, Minhao Bai, Forrest Thurman, Vladimír Sedláček: Five minute talks
• Max Aires: Math trivia game
• Max Aires: How much math can I do in 30 seconds?
• Forrest Thurman: Extensions of Lipschitz Functions and Domino Tiling
• Rutgers AMS chapter: Integration bee
• Brian Pinsky: Which topological spaces are Pi_0
• Joy Hamlin: A Muddle Puddle Tweetle Poodle Needle Noodle Bottle Paddle Battle
• Fanxin Wu: All sets are countable
• Robert Dougherty-Bliss: Ratings systems in online games
• Vladimír Sedláček: LKJNAJHB
• Nick Backes: Is this a circle?
• Mitchell Bast: Musings on probability and credence
• Kevin Tenenbaum: Baseball analysis

Fall 2022

• Nick Backes,Larry Frolov, Minhao Bai, Brian Pinsky, Vladimír Sedláček, Emma Peterson, Nilava Metya, Mitchell Bast, Natasha Ter-Saakov: Five minute talks
• Dan Tan: Garlic knot polynomials
• Max Aires: Major Uses of Graph Minors
• Brian Pinsky: Every Group is the Automorphism Group of a Graph
• Kayla Gibson: Can math help me escape a hungry bear??
• Teddy Gonzales: Strings and Things
• Fanxin Wu: All sets are measurable
• Devin Bristow: The History and Mathematics of Adinkras
• Minhao Bai: High School Mathematical
• Aakash Parikh: Shor's Algorithm
• Joy Hamlin: Do It Again! And Again. And Again. And...
• Lawrence Frolov: On the existence of Jell-O

Spring 2022

• Nick Backes,Larry Frolov, Joy Hamlin, Brian Pinsky, Hannah Hasan, Emma Peterson, Forrest Thurman, Corrine Yap:Five minute talks
• Paul Feehan, Kristen Hendricks, Eilidh McKemmie, Fioralba Cakoni, Alex Kontorovich:Post-doc panel
• George Spahn:An Introduction to Auction Theory
• Andre Hernandez-Espiet:Permutation Puzzles: Rubik's cube and 15-Puzzle
• Max Aires:An Elegant Solution to the Sum Set-Product Set Problem
• In collaboration with the Rutgers AMS chapter:Integration Bee
• Louis Gaudet: Goldbach's problem and the circle method
• Nathan Mehlhop:L^p Convergence in Fourier Analysis
• Quentin Dubroff:Random walks, coarse geometry, and the electric connection
• Bojue Wang: Geodesic Metric Space
• Kayla Gibson:Belyi Maps and Juggling
• Ian Coley:What is homotopy theory?

Fall 2021

• Multiple speakers:Five minute talks
• Ishaan Shah:How to create your own Universe
• Corrine Yap:A Clapback Talk: what a recent Slack thread reveals about inclusivity in math
• Brian Pinsky:Pointless Topology
• Alvis Zhaodh:Geometric Optics of Hyperbolic Boundary Value Problems
• Mihail Tarigradschi:On the knowledge of facts and anecdotes
• Natasha Ter-Saakov:Flat-Foldable Origami
• Dylan Adams:Studying Fermat curves through Riemann surface theory
• Larry Frolov:A Short Course on Fortune-Telling
• George Hauser:A Simple Probability Question Involving Coins
• James Holland:That Quanta Article About Infinity People Have Been Mentioning To Me
• Leonidas Daskalakis:Bernoulli Shifts
• Yael Davidov:What Even are Quaternion Algebras and How Many of them are there?
• Nick Backes:4-Dimensional Knot Theory and Knot Invariants

Spring 2021

• Sriram Raghunath:Escher's Circle Limit : Exploring Hyperbolic Tessellations
• Robert Dougherty-Bliss:Integral Recurrences from A to Z
• Dongyeong Ko:The Existence Theory of Minimal Hypersurfaces via Min-max theory
• David Herrera:An Introduction to Integration in Finite Terms - Why can't we "solve" the integral of e^{-x^2}?
• Tamar Lichter:Secret Bases: An Introduction to Lattice Cryptography
• Neil Sloane:Seven Unsolved Problems from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• Ishaan Shah:How to Think of Spacetime Quantum Mechanically
• Leonidas Daskalakis:Weyl's Polynomial Equidistribution Theorem
• Baozhi Louw:Method of Continuity and Linear Elliptic PDEs
• Takehiko Gappo:Model Theory behind Automated Theorem Proving
• Brian Pinsky:Some Weaker Forms of the Axioms of Choice

Fall 2020

• Forrest Thurman:The Kissing Nymber Problem, Spherical Codes, and Designs
• Sumeet Khandelwal:The Hairy Ball Theorem
• James Holland:Playing Games smh 🤦
• Brooke Ogrodnik:Scary Stories to Tell in the Pizza Seminar
• Quentin Dubroff:Too acute to be true?
• Leonidas Daskalakis:The Haar measure
• Louis Gaudet:Dirichlet's theorem + ghosts + a surprise
• Jason Saied:Introduction to Quantum Computing
• George Spahn:How to do math on a supercomputer
• Corrine Yap:Mathematics of Apportionment, or Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Spring 2020

• Subsequent talks were canceled due to COVID-19
• Edna Jones:Proving that primes congruent to 1 (mod 4) are the sum of two squares in expected and unexpected ways
• Shaozong Wang:Study of random walk on graphs through electrical networks
• Rashmika Goswami:SET and the Polynomial Method
• Justin Hoffman:An overview or algebraic geometry
• Victoria Chayes:The Equality Case Of The Matrix Triangle Inequality And Other Singularly Valued Major Structure Results
• George Spahn:Busy Beavers

Fall 2019

• Yukun Yao:Machine Learning and Neural Networks
• Chloe Wawrzyniak:Bergman Spaces and the Wiegerink Problem
• Hamid Mahmoudian:If you don't send me a title I could put anything I want here and you have to talk about it so on that note Hamid will be teaching us category theory
• Evan Gong:A free boundary minimal disk in a ball
• Forrest Thurman:Forrest-Emailed-Me-An-Abstract-But-Forgot-To-Include-A-Title-So-I-Asked-Him-About-It-In-Person-And-He-Told-Me-A-Title-But-I-Forgot-What-It-Was-So-You'll-Just-Have-To-Read-The-Abstract
• Andy Huynh:Surgery on 3-manifolds (and mapping class groups)
• Lev Borisov, Angela Gibney, Kristen Hendricks, Iian Smythe, and Matt Charnley:The Job Market and it's Applications
• Karuna Sangam:Fractals!->Fra   ls!->F a   l !
• Brian Pinsky:Why the continuum hypothesis is true and also lifting line theory
• James Holland:Why the Continuum Hypothesis is False
• John Chiarelli: The Sensitivity Conjecture: Twenty Seven Years and Five Pages
• SECRET THURSDAY SEMINAR: De Bruijn Sequences as Perturbations of Linear Recursions

Spring 2019

• Abigail Raz: The Bunkbed Conjecture
• Brooke Ogrodnik: Putting the Fun in Fundamental Domain
• Keith Frankston: All Sufficiently Long Titles Contain a Clever Subtitle
• Christina Bifulco, Michael Weingart, and Brian Katz: Teaching Jobs Panel
• Tamar Lichter: Statistical Fallacies
• Corrine Yap: The Mathematics of Origami - Flat-Foldability
• Nathan Fox, Katie McKeon, Tim Naumovitz, and Tom Sznigir: Industry Jobs Panel
• Jeaheang Bang: A generalization of the Fubini-Tonelli Theorem: the co-Area formula
• Saurabh Gosavi: Essential Dimension... Essentially
• David Herrera: The Functional Calculus and the Putnam-Fuglede theorem: A discussion with (mostly) matrices
• Jason Saied: Representation Theory and Partition Identities
• Justin Semonsen: Network Games

Fall 2018

• Alex Karlovitz: Numgodic Theory
• George Hauser: Sonnet 2 + sqrt(3)
• Brian Pinsky: Analysis without the Analysis
• Matt Charnley: Analysts Say the Darndest Things
• Victoria Chayes: The Universe in a Relative Nutshell
• Dodam Ih: Introduction to Adjunctions
• Lev Borisov, Zheng-Chao Han, Alice Mark, Sven Moeller, and Kim Weston: Academic Jobs Panel
• Joel Clingempeel: Machine Learning for Humans and Robots
• Chloe Urbanski Wawrzyniak: The Many Complex Notions of Convexity
• Érik Amorim: Shor's Quantum Attack on RSA: a Practical Demonstration
• James Holland: Paradoxes that are not actually Paradoxes

Spring 2018

• Lou Gaudet: The Proof is in the Pudding Sauce
• Yukun Yao: Parking Function
• Matt Hohertz: P vs. NP: the million-dollar question
• Érik Amorim: Dotting the i's and crossing the h's
• Tamar Lichter: Attacks on the RSA Cryptosystem
• Yonah Biers-Ariel: Math in Strange Places
• Richard Voepel: A Place for Everything, and Everything in Its Place
• Becky Coulson: Big Numbers: From Combinatorics to Logic
• Jason Saied: Combinatorial Game Theory
• Huyesin Acan, Annegret Burtscher, Purvi Gupta, Robert Laugwitz, Rachel Levanger: Postdoc Life Panel
• Matthew Welsh: Spacings of Fractions/Torsion Points
• Chloe Wawrzyniak: Cats are Liquids

Fall 2017

• Juan Aguilera: Can we quantify the strength of a theorem?
• Abigail Raz: List Coloring Graphs
• Brooke Logan: Deleting Digits
• Keith Frankston: The Burnside Problems
• Joel Clingempeel: The Geometry of the Amplituhedron
• Andy Huynh: Surfaces of Constant Curvature
• Lev Borisov, Angela Gibney, Purvi Gupta, Bhargav Narayanan, Chris Woodward: Academic Jobs Panel
• Katie McKeon: Quantum Chaos
• Fei Qi: Cohomological criterion of reductivity for associative algebras
• Justin Semonsen: Cooperation: The Game
• Matt Charnley: What's the deal with all these flows?

Spring 2017

• Jinyoung Park: Do we really need integrals?
• Doug Schultz: What the heck is Floer cohomology?
• Nathan Fox: Busy Beavers
• Parker Hund: Combinatorics, Accounting, and Finance
• Bryan Ek: April Fool's!
• Érik Amorim: The first big test of Einstein's General Relativity
• Emily Kukura: On the Logic of Time Travel: Paradoxes, Banana Peels, Cheshire Cats, and (maybe) Einstein
• Corrine Yap: Origametry
• Matt Charnley: Why you should never get your bird drunk, and other "random" facts
• John Chiarelli: This Computer Does and Does Not Work: Using Quantum Mechanics in Computing Systems
• Yonah Biers-Ariel: An Introduction to Bayesian Estimation
• Sam Braunfeld: Signal Processing and Filtering

Fall 2016

• Various Speakers: 5 Minute Talks
• Katie McKeon: Network Science and the Internet
• Joel Clingempeel: Knots, Three-Manifolds, and Quantum Field Theory
• Vernon Chan: Which integral is elementary?
• Cole Franks: How to deal with liars
• Prof. Amie Wilkinson et. al.: Academic Jobs Panel
• Tom Sznigir: Symmetry
• Rebecca Coulson: Fuzzy Knights and Knaves
• Chloe Urbanksi: Reinventing the Wheel... Or Can We?
• Pat Devlin: Things I learned from my students (humorous and otherwise)
• Abigail Raz: Zero-One Laws for Random Graphs
• Richard Voepel: Problems You Won't Find on Sesame Street : A Select Result from Transcendental Number Theory

Spring 2016

• Justin Semonsen: Learning and VC Dimension
• Yonah Biers-Ariel: It's a Pirate's Life for Me!
• Nathan Fox: Why is this talk different from all other talks?
• Professor Lieberman et al.: Panel Discussion: Teaching Mathematics.
• Keith Frankston: Seemingly Paradoxical Results of Random Games.
• Alexi Hoeft: How to Create and Prevent Traffic Jams.
• Tim Naumovitz: Ranking Algorithms and Tournament Formats.
• Pedro Pontes: Pretty Pictures in Complex Dynamics.
• Katie McKeon: Non-Euclidean Geometric Combinatorics.
• Sam Braunfeld: Formal Methods for Causation.
• Mike Donders: Pseudo Random Numbers.
• Ed Karasiewicz: Reciprocity Laws and Conjectures.
• Martin Köberl: CH.

Fall 2015

• Johannes Flake: How to Improve Images.
• Fei Qi: Regular Functions of One Quaternionic Variable.
• Érik Amorim: Theorems as Random Number Generators.
• Joel Clingempeel: Morse Theory and Quantum Physics.
• Cole Franks: Disturbing Images.
• Chloe Urbanski: The Miracle of Modern Notation.
• Professor Cakoni et. al.: The Job Market and its Applications.
• Matt Charnley: History of the Solutions of PDE's.
• Ross Berkowitz: Claude Shannon and the Beginnings of Information Theory.
• Pat Devlin: The Same Old Theorems via Different and New Proofs.
• Tom Sznigir: The Homicidal Chauffeur.
• Burak Kaya: Axiom of Determinacy and some of its Consequences.

Spring 2015

• Kellen Myers: The Tragedies and Comedies of Mathematics.
• John Chiarelli: Burden of Proof: The Events and Legends Behind the Evolution of Greek Mathematics.
• Visiting Panel: The Other Job Market.
• Matthew Welsh: Eigenvalue Problems, Selberg's Trace Formula and Analytic Number Theory.
• Keith Frankston: Topological Games and an Application of the Continuum Hypothesis.
• Joel Clingempeel: Topological Quantum Field Theory.
• Katie McKeon: The Behavior of Continued Fractions.
• John Miller: The Riemann Zeta Function.
• Tim Naumovitz: Mathematics of Auctions.
• A bunch of people: 5 Minute Talks.
• Pedro Pontes: Mathematics for the Zombie Apocalypse.
• Ross Berkowitz: The Method of Moments and the Erdős Kac Theorem: Applying Probability to Number Theory.
• Matt Charnley: Orientability and the Möbius Strip.
• Nathan Fox: Kolmogorov Complexity.

Fall 2014

• Richard Voepel: One Big Bin - A Half-baked Presentation About Classification.
• Senia Sheydvasser: Sifting for Gold(bach).
• Ed Karasiewicz: A Family of Elliptic Curves and L-functions.
• Bud Coulson: Non-Standard Calculus.
• Sam Braunfeld: Forcing via Boolean-Valued Models.
• Matthew Russell: The Mathematics of Fear.
• Érik Amorim: An Infinitely Fast Tasmanian Devil and his Special Peano Curve.
• Professor Han et. al.: The Job Market and its Applications.
• Semeon Artamonov: Hamilton Dynamics on Associative Algebras.
• Nathaniel Shar: 1/z.
• Fei Qi: Theory of Quasideterminants and Applications.
• Pat Devlin: Figure Not to Scale (Drawing for the Classroom).
• Burak Kaya: Friedman's Borel diagonalization theorem or: Can you prove Cantor's theorem in a uniform way?

Spring 2014

• Fei Qi: Young Symmetrizer, Irreps of S_n and Weyl Module
• Robert McRae: Modular Invariance in Lattices and Codes
• Rebecca Coulson: An Introduction to Definability: What Can You Say?
• Shashank Kanade: Some Gems from the Theory of Partitions
• Anthony Zaleski: Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach
• Ed Karasiewicz: The Geometry and Arithmetic of Modular Forms
• Tim Naumovitz: The mathematics of pi(e)
• Kellen Myers: Analysis You Can Count On
• Joel Clingempeel: From Calculus to Cohomology
• Burak Kaya: The Measure Problem and Some Large Cardinals
• Matthew Russell: The Mathematics of Love
• Matthew Charnley: Navier-Stokes Equations: An Introduction
• John Chiarelli: Alfred Kempe and the Five-Color Theorem
• Sam Braunfeld: Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Fall 2013

• Richard Voepel: A Brief Survey of Classical Theorems and Open Questions in Transcendence Theory
• Frank Seuffert: A proof of the Sobolev Inequality, Its Optimizer, and a Generalization to Continuous Dimensions
• Jane Gilman (Rutgers-Newark): Grant proposal writing and job opportunities at the National Science Foundation
• Daniel Scheinerman: Lattices and Cryptography
• Bud Coulson: Summation Methods
• Mike Donders: The p-adic Numbers
• Ross Berkowitz: Mathematics of Preferences
• Nathan Fox: Mobius Inversion
• Roderich Tumulka et al: Panel on Job Applications
• Nathaniel Shar: Archimedes
• Tom Sznigir: The Dirac Delta Function
• Patrick Devlin: Getting Your Zero-Dimensional Subspace Across: A Mathematician's Guide to Mathematical Self-Expression

Spring 2013

• John Kim: Why Static Networks Have More Disease Than Dynamic Networks
• Burak Kaya: Infinite Ramsey Theorem, its generalizations and some small large cardinals
• Various: Panel discussion on career development in post-doc or tenure-track positions
• Fei Qi: Irreducible representations of symmetric groups, Schur polynomials and combinatorics
• John Miller: Who hid my subgroup?
• Rachel Levanger: Why stop with just one? Persistence and a new look at fractal dimension
• Kellen Myers: Ramsey theory and Rado numbers
• Sjuvon Chung: The history of the integral of sec(x)
• Robert McRae: Conway's uniqueness proof for the Leech lattice
• Charles Wolf: The Gauss-Bonnet formula
• Michael Marcondes de Freitas: A dynamical proof of Van der Waerden's theorem
• Becky Gordon: What Would the World Look Like Without the Axiom of Choice?
• Roderich Tumulka et al: Panel discussion on scientific publishing

Fall 2012:

• Jake Baron: Undecidability: A brief history of recursion theory
• Ed Karasiewicz: The Mordell theorem
• Mike Donders: The logic of graph-coloring independence
• Ross Berkowitz: Factoring integers
• Nathan Fox: The generalized Thue-Morse word
• Bud Coulson: The game of Hex and the Brouwer fixed-point theorem
• Tom Sznigir: The principle of least action
• Roderich Tumulka et al: Job applications
• Justin Gilmer: Happy numbers
• Nathaniel Shar: Fair division
• Howard Nuer: Kontsevich's formula

Spring 2012:

• Various speakers: Five-minute talks
• Frank Seuffert: Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality
• Knight Fu: Chern classes
• Bence Borda: Typical properties
• Bud Coulson: The Mathematics of Card Shuffles
• Nathaniel Shar: Sturmian Words
• Kellen Myers: Analysis You Can Count On
• Robert McRae: A Friendly (or Monstrous?) Introduction to Vertex Operator Algebras
• Ross Berkowitz: TBD
• Pat Devlin: Crazy Dice (Speaker's Favorite Proof)
• Ed Karasiewicz: Minkowski's Convex Body Theorem and Its Consequences
• Tom Sznigir: Divergent Series
• Jake Baron: "Paradoxes" in Game Theory: Or, Why I'm Not an Economist

Fall 2011:

• Doug Schultz: Smale's Paradox (A.k.a. Sphere Eversion)
• Tim Naumovitz: Conway's Soldiers
• Mark Kim: Rademacher's Theorem
• Simao Herdade: The Probabilistic Method
• Tim Naumovitz: What first years do instead of Complex Analysis HW
• Katy Craig: Gradient Flow in the Space of Probability Measures
• Thom Tyrrell: The (Algebraic) Geometry of Elliptic Integrals
• Burak Kaya: The Banach-Tarski Paradox
• Susan Durst: The Kakeya Needle Problem
• Michael Marcondes de Freitas: Counterexamples in Real Analysis
• Faculty Panel: Amy Cohen, Zheng-Chao Han, Chris Woodward: Career Development and Job Market
• Matthew Russell: Bulgarian Solitaire - Partition Dynamics
• Bud Coulson: Combinatorial proofs of some partition identities

Spring 2011:

• Tim Naumovitz: Set: How Mathematics Distracts Biology
• Priyam Patel: Gaussian Curvature
• Brian Garnett: Random Walks
• Matthew Russell: Eccentric mathematicians and their work
• Catherine Pfaff: "Graph Building" for Fully Irreducible Outer Automorphisms of Free Groups
• Shashank Kanade: Simultaneous Diagonalization and Triangulation
• Thom Tyrrell: The Geometry of the Integers
• Justin Gilmer: The Five Color Theorem and Heawood's formula
• Moulik Balasubramanian: The Weierstrass-Sundmann Theorem
• Susovan Pal: Some Spectral Results for Closed Hyperbolic Surfaces
• Glen Wilson: Finitely Presented Metabelian Groups
• Justin Bush: Probability Puzzles

Fall 2010:

• Bud Coulson: Elementary properties of the Григорчук (Grigorchuk) group
• Robert McRae: Diverse Approaches to the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
• John Miller: Farey Sequences
• Ved Datar: The Mittag-Leffler Problem in Complex Analysis
• Michael deFreitas: A Frustrating Fact of Social Choice Theory
• Hui Li: The Formation of the Shape of a Flower
• Josh Loftus: Some Interesting Paradoxes in Applied Mathematics
• Jay Williams: A Brief Tour of Computability Theory
• Feng Luo and Amy Cohen: Career Development and Job Market
• Brandon Bate: p-adic Numbers and Quadratic Forms
• Vidit Nanda: Compactness, Shift-Invariant Means, and Pizza Evaluation
• David Duncan: Morse Homology

Spring 2010:

• Cody Mack: The Hyperbolic Plane
• Ed Chien: Intro to Special Relativity
• Thom Tyrrell: The Geometry behind Luroth's Theorem
• Marina Skyers: An unsolved question in Algebra solved by Algebraic Topology
• Brian Thompson: Let 'Em Eat Cake: Fair, Envy-Free, and Equitable Division
• Michael DeFrietas: The irrational number that cost a man his life
• Moulik Balasubramanian: Distinct Zeros of Analytic Functions.
• Edinah Gnang: Graph Isomorphism: a problem at the junction of Linear Algebra and Group Theory
• Ved Datar: Fourier Transform and some applications.
• James Dibble: Cartography: The Drawing of Charts or Maps
• Jaret Flores: Existence of (at least one) non unknot

Fall 2009:

• Jay Williams: Games Mathematicians Play
• David Duncan: The isoperimetric inequality and what it can do for YOU!
• Shashank Kanade: Banach Tarski Paradox
• Sara Blight: Sieve Methods and Twin Primes
• Ali Maalaoui: Some Topological Methods in the Calculus of Variations
• Michael de Freitas: Uniqueness and Non-Uniqueness for Solutions to Ordinary Differential Equations
• Emilie Hogan: The Combinatorics of LEGOs
• Arran Hamm: Borsuk, Ulam, and Combinatorics
• Andrew Baxter: An Invitation to Permutation Patterns
• Susan Durst: Bidding Games
• John Bryk and Profs. Chris Woodward and Amy Cohen: Career Development and Job Market
• Bobby DeMarco: Grasshoppers Jumping over Mines: A fun problem from the IMO and a look at mathematical blogging
• Dan Staley: The Word Problem

Spring 2009:

• Philip Matchett Wood: Stacks of Blocks and a Variety of Stacking Schemes
• Various grad students: Job search panel
• Eric Rowland: Formulas for primes
• Robert McRae: Finite Dimensional Division Algebras
• Brent Young: Quantum Mechanical Stability of Matter (or How Boring Analytic Inequalities Make Life, the Universe, and Everything Possible)
• Beth Kupin: The Four Color Theorem
• Leigh Cobbs: Hey! Who turned out the lights?
• Tianling Jin: A glimpse of minimal surfaces: Bernstein's Theorem
• Jinwei Yang: Introduction to the abc Conjecture
• Dan Staley: All About Thompson's Group F
• Bobby DeMarco: The Putnam Exam
• Kellen Myers: Ramsey Theory on the Integers
• Ved Datar: A proof of the change of variables theorem in R^n

Fall 2008:

• Dan Cranston: The Probabilistic Method: How to make counting easy (sometimes)
• Knight Fu: A Lesson in Probabilistic Combinatorial Pharmacy: Percolation on Homogeneous Trees of Valence 3 (or more)
• Brian Thompson: All the Math I Really Need for Research I Learned in Kindergarten or Coloring in the Lines: Cool Edge Colorings of Hypercubes
• Brandon Bate: The First Arcsine Law of a Random Walk
• Vidit Nanda: Buffon's Needle Problem
• Scott Schneider: Slaying the Hydra
• Thom Tyrrell: The Enigma Machine
• Gabe Bouch: Fun With Classical Mechanics
• Susan Durst: The Alexander Polynomial
• David Duncan: Loewner's Differential Equation and SLE
• Andrew Baxter: Sperner's Lemma and Fair Division

Spring 2008:

• Philip Matchett Wood: The Mathematics of the Rubik's Cube
• Eduardo Osorio: Untitled
• Liviu Ilinca: The k-SAT problem
• Vijay Ravikumar: A History of Curves in Mathematics
• Dan Cranston: The search for Moore Graphs: Beauty is Rare
• Emilie Hogan: The Game of Hex and the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem
• Beth Kupin: Matroids
• Humberto Montalv�n G�mez: Can high-school mathematics be challenging and fun?
• Eric Rowland: The Crazy Thue-Morse Sequence
• Dan Staley: The Banach-Tarski Paradox and Group Amenability
• Catherine Pfaff: An introduction to Outer Space
• Lara Pudwell: Counting trees

Fall 2007:

• Justin Bush: Choosing the pizza seminar winner
• Sushmita Venugopalan: A look at Morse Functions
• Wesley Pegden: A shrinking operation on sets
• Jinwei Yang: Generators for ring of invariants
• Liming Wang: Singularly perturbed monotone systems and applications in biology
• Sara Blight: The Prime Number Theorem
• Avital Oliver: The history of imaginary numbers -- a typical example of mathematical evolution
• Jay Williams: Magic caves, secrets, and zero-knowledge proofs
• James Dibble: A Survey of Riemann Surfaces
• Andrew Baxter: What I Learned in Math 103

Spring 2007:

• Liviu Ilinca: The Strange Logic of Infinite Random Graphs
• John Bryk: In Which John Bryk Proves Something Neat about Transcendental Numbers
• Dan Staley: A History of the Poincare Conjecture
• Kevin Costello: Random facts about Random Graphs
• Andrew Baxter: Partition Bijections
• Elizabeth Kupin: Classical Cryptography
• James Dibble: A Brief Introduction to Geometric Control Theory
• Tom Robinson: A Heuristic Introduction to Infinitesimal Operators.
• Charlie Siegel: Polynomial Knots
• Catherine Pfaff: Pencil Maps, Surface Classification, and a Cute Book
• Humberto Montalvan: Quantum Computation, a Glimpse
• Reza Rezazagedan: Heat Flow
• Po-Shen Loh (Princeton): Arranging in order

Fall 2006:

• Catherine Pfaff: A Large-Scale Geometric Proof of Mostow's Rigidity Theorem
• Aek Thanatipanonda: On Playing Games
• Jason Chiu: Probabilistic Bridge
• Paul Raff: The Power of Polynomials
• John Bryk: Some Sort of Introduction to L-functions
• Colleen Duffy: Yupana? Quipu? - Incan Abacus and a Portable Planner
• Eric Rowland: An Introduction to Smellular Glautomata
• Sara Blight: Proofs Without Words
• Dan Staley: Perfection
• Philip Matchett Wood: Origami: Elegant Mathematics and an Amazing Application
• Sam Coskey: Ratner's Theorem
• Lara Pudwell: How to Count Permutations Cleverly
• Andrew Baxter: Euler, The Master of Us All

Spring 2006:

• Bobby Griffin: The Pancake Problem -- Sorting by Prefix Reversals
• Philip Matchett Wood: The Lucy & Lily Pentagon Game
• John Byrk: Regular Polygons in the Integer Lattice = Squares
• Pablo Angulo: An Introduction to Optimal Control Theory and Differential Games
• Jason Chiu: Seven
• Liviu Ilinca: Some Counterexamples in Probability
• Daniel Staley: Categories, Sets, and the Axiom of Universes
• Eduardo Osorio: Stochastic Approach to Deterministic Boundary Value Problems
• Mike Richter: On Crossing Families.
• Prof R. Wilson & Prof G. Weibel: Two Faculty Glimpses
• Prof R. Falk & Prof G. Cherlin: Two Faculty Glimpses
• Mike Richter: Geometrically Markov Geodesics on the Modular Surface
• Thotsaporn "Aek" Thanatipanonda: Ramsey Theory

Fall 2005:

• Sikimeti Mau: Morse Theory
• Sarah Genoway: Tropical Math
• Vince Vatter: Maximal independent sets in graphs
• Sujith Vijay: The Crazy Proof of the Irrationality of Zeta(3)
• Wes Pegden: Distance Sequences in Locally Infinite Vertex-Transitive Digraphs
• Siwei Zhu: The factorization of very large integers
• Eric Rowland: Math 135 for a Discrete World
• Lara Pudwell: All about 1089
• Andrew Baxter: Triangular Billiards
• Brian Lins: The History of Logarithms and Slide Rules
• Catherine Pfaff: "Large Scale Geometry", Amenability, and Some Connections to Algebra and Analysis
• Ben Kennedy: When do interval maps have simple dynamics?
• Paul Ellis: There are infinitely many primes

Spring 2005:

• Chris Stucchio: How to make an imaginary Box act like it isn't there
• Eric Rowland: Pascal's Triangle mod n: Fractal Dimensions, Fractal Sequences, and Other Exotic Cuisine
• Brian Manning: Bundles of Joy
• Paul Raff: More Fooling Around With Isabelle
• Phil Matchett: Meet Isabelle, Computerized theorem proving for today and the future.
• German Enciso: Infinite Dimensional Beer Glasses
• Sujith Vijay: Primes, Twin Primes and Processors
• Luc Nguyen: Best approximation on a complex domain
• John Bryk: Digital Love; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ergodic Theory
• Leigh Cobbs: On Zero-Divisor Graphs
• Sikimeti Mau: The McKay Correspondence
• Ben Kennedy: Measures of Noncompactness and Fixed Points
• Eduardo Osorio: Some Dirichlet problems over some quadratic surfaces
• Jared Speck: Special Relativity and Minkowskian Spacetime: My Stick Isn't As Short As It Looks

Fall 2004:

• Kia Dalili: The HomAB problem
• Paul Raff: Primes is in P
• Ben Bunting: Pseudospectra, Hypercube Random Walks, and Why 6 Shuffles is not Enough
• Elizabeth Henning: Why Hom is a Mother Functor
• Scott Schneider: A Taste of Descriptive Set Theory
• Nick Weininger: A New Combinatorial-Probabilistic Gem
• Mohamud Mohammed: The (q-)MARKOV-WZ-Method
• Derek Hansen: Surface Registration by Matching Umbilic Points
• Mike Neiman: Crossing Numbers and Discrete Geometry
• Sam Coskey: Playing the Greatest Game in the Continuum
• Catherine Pfaff: Complex Algebraic Curves: Applications of Hurwitz's Formula
• Aaron Lauve: Schur Polynomials
• Eric Rowland: All About Primitive Pythagorean Triples

Spring 2004:

• Matt Young: Elliptic Curves
• John Bryk: Extreme Valuation Theory
• Ben Kennedy: The Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem Never Holds in Infinite Dimensions
• Scott Schneider: Connections Between the Provability Predicate in Peano Arithmetic and the Necessity Operator in Modal Logic
• Lara Pudwell: Pebbling, Cover Pebbling, and Chocolate
• Chris Stucchio: Shooting Lasers at Atoms
• Ben Bunting: Why Google is the best search engine
• Paul Ellis: The Axiom of Choice
• Sikimeti Ma'u: Remembering Mr. Green
• Sujith Vijay: Lagrange and Four Square
• Space Ghost: Inverse Problems for Electrical Conductivity Networks
• Eva Curry: Radix Representations for Vectors in Z^n

Fall 2003

• Matt Young: Bessel Functions
• Paul Ellis: Knot Theory Invariants
• Fernando Louro: Algebraic Geometry
• Eric Rowland: On Equivalent Words in the Free Group of Rank 2
• Aaron Lauve: Horned Hermitian Honeybees and their Quasi Friends
• Trevor Bass: A Quick and Painful Introduction to Excluded Minor Theory
• Michael Weingart: Gaussian Quadrature
• German Enciso: Control Theory, Monotonicity and Fruit Flies
• Kia Dalili: Probabilistic methods in Combinatorics
• Bill Cuckler: Discrepancy in Arithmetic Progressions
• Brian Lins: The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra with Linear Algebra