Speaker Series (2014-2015)
The Stanford University Mathematical Organization hosts a weekly talk given by a professor, grad student, or visitor about undergraduate-accessible topics in pure and applied mathematics that go beyond the standard curriculum. The purpose of this series is to expose undergraduates to some topics not normally covered in the classroom, as well as to introduce them to Stanford's faculty and community. Talks will be accessible to freshmen in the honors 50-series.
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2014–2015 Schedule
Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| September 25 | Jenny Wilson | Combinatorics and Prisoners |
| October 2 | Brian Conrad | Flight Simulators via 4-D Geometry |
| October 9 | Daniel Alvarez-Gavela | The Wiggle is a H-Principle |
| October 16 | Alex Wright | The combinatorial Nullstellensatz and (restricted) subsets |
| October 23 | Rafe Mazzeo | Spectra, resonances, and geometry |
| October 30 | Jan Vondrak | A Game of Construction and Destruction |
| November 6 | Persi Diaconis | Adding Numbers and Shuffling Cards |
| November 13 | Christian Zickert | Polygons, polyhedra and scissors congruence |
| November 20 | Jeremy Booher | Square Roots Modulo n and Secure Coin Flipping |
| Thanksgiving Break :D | No talk | |
| December 4 | Brian Conrad | Fermat's Last Theorem and Elliptic Curves Note: Non-standard room location! The talk will be in 380-380W. |
Winter 2015
| Date | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| January 8 | Akshay Venkatesh | Stick-breaking and Factoring |
| January 15 | Jack Poulson | A history of "large-scale" linear algebra and optimization |
| January 22 | Simon Brendle | Heat diffusion and geometry |
| January 29 | Tom Church | The prime-generating sequence that couldn't |
| February 5 | Benedict Gross | p-adic numbers and p-adic groups Note: Non-standard room location! The talk will be in 380-380W. |
| February 12 | Brian Conrad | Wer ist Grothendieck? |
| February 19 | Daniel Litt | Zeros of Integer Linear Recurrences |
| February 26 | Kerstin Baer (Acumen LLC) | Math, Politics, and your Health Care Data |
| March 5 | Megan Bernstein | Markov Chains in Action |
| March 12 | David Arthur (Google) | Speeding up Search Ads at Google |
Spring 2015
| Date | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| April 2 | Samuel Huneke | Mathematics Education Under the Nazis |
| April 9 | Eric Marberg | Random Sorting Networks |
| April 16 | Sander Kupers | Polynomials and Braids |
| April 23 | Kyler Siegel | The Bernoulli Numbers |
| April 30 | Rick Sommer | Transfinite Tricks for Naming Large Numbers |
| May 7 | Graduate School Panel | Graduate School Panel |
| May 14 | Joseph Victor (MemSQL) | Hilbert Space Filling Curves and Geometric Data Storage |