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 2018
- Lou Gaudet: The Proof is in the
PuddingSauce - 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 Montalván Gámez: 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