Speaker Series

SUMO hosts regular talks by professors, grad students, or visitors in the mathematics department. The purpose of this series is to expose undergraduates to topics beyond the standard curriculum, as well as to introduce them to Stanford's faculty and community. Talks are generally accessible to students in the 50-series.

Interested in giving a talk? Email us at [stanfordugradmath at gmail.com].

Past Speaker Events

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2022–2023 Schedule

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Talk
November 3	Eric Kilgore	An Introduction to Morse Theory
November 10	Romain Speciel	Dido of Carthage, Grazing Sheep and Geometric Inequalities

Winter 2023

Date	Speaker	Talk
January 27	Shintaro Fushida-Hardy	Parsing "Tetrahemihexahedron"
March 10	Brian Conrad	Why is the Classification of Finite Simple Groups not a zoo?

Spring 2023

Date	Speaker	Talk
May 19	Romain Speciel	A lot of hats (like, SO MANY hats)
May 26	Matt Larson	Expander graphs

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