RUTGERS EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR

sponsored by the

Rutgers University
Department of Mathematics

and the

Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)

Founded 2003 by Drew Sills and Doron Zeilberger.

Former co-organizers: Drew Sills (2003-2007), Moa ApaGodu (2005-2006), Lara Pudwell (2006-2008), Andrew Baxter (2008-2011), Brian Nakamura (2011-2013), Edinah Gnang (2011-2013), Matthew Russell (2013-2016), Nathan Fox (2016-2017), Bryan Ek (2017-2018), Mingjia Yang (2018-2020), Yonah Biers-Ariel (2018-2020), Robert Dougherty-Bliss (2020-2024), Stoyan Dimitrov (2023-2025)

Current co-organizers:
Doron Zeilberger (doronzeil {at} gmail [dot] com)
Aurora Hiveley (aurora.hiveley {at} scarletmail [dot] rutgers [dot] edu)
Lucy Martinez (lm1154 {at} scarletmail [dot] rutgers [dot] edu)

Archive of Previous Speakers and Talks You can find links to videos of some of these talks as well. Currently, our videos are being posted to our Vimeo page. Previously, we had videos posted on our YouTube page.


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Forthcoming Talks

Date: Thu., April 30, 2026, 5:00pm (Eastern Time) Zoom Link [password: The 20th Catalan number, alias (40)!/(20!*21!), alias 6564120420 ]

Speaker: Paul Levrie, KU Leuven, Belgium

Title: On the mathematical legacy of Guillera

Abstract: In this seminar, we will provide a brief introduction to the early history of series with sums of 1/π and 1/π2, we meet Ramanujan, and discuss the role played by the recently deceased Jesus Guillera in this story. We derive closed-form expressions for values of generalized hypergeometric functions that elegantly combine Ramanujan's series and Guillera's series, as well as others that combine Guillera's series with the series with sum 1/π4. For this we use Zeilberger's algorithm. A side result of the method used is a new (?) series for the constant G/π3, that Jesus Guillera probably would have liked, G being Catalan's constant.

[Joint work with John Campbell]

Date: Thu., May 7, 2026, 5:00pm (Eastern Time) Zoom Link [password: The 20th Catalan number, alias (40)!/(20!*21!), alias 6564120420 ]

Speaker: Sergei Suslov, Arizona State University

Title: One century of the wave mechanics discovery by Louis de Broglie, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, and Paul A.M. Dirac

Abstract: Historical development of major ideas of quantum physics - the so-called two quantum revolutions (1924-28) - will be outlined from a modern mathematical perspective. Connection of old quantum mechanics by Bohr and Sommerfeld with transuranium elements will be presented.

[See also this interesting article]