Speaker Series (2015-2016)
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.
Speaker Series is held (approximately) alternate Thursdays 4:30 to 5:20pm in room 380-384H (the big classroom on the fourth floor of the math building) during Winter and Spring quarters unless otherwise noted. Food is provided afterwards.
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2015–2016 Schedule
Spring 2016
Date | Speaker | Talk |
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March 31 | Lexing Ying | The Fast Multipole Method |
April 14 | Andras Vasy | Waves |
April 21 | Public Lecture | A Special Conversation on "Behind the Man Who Knew Infinity" Note: The Public Lecture will be held 7:30 pm in Cubberley Auditorium. |
April 28 | Brian Conrad | Elementary integration and differential Galois theory |
May 5 | Public Lecture | Breaking Codes and Finding Patterns Note: The Public Lecture will be held 7:30 pm in Cubberley Auditorium. |
May 12 | Jenny Wilson | The Fold & Cut Theorem |
May 26 | Tadashi Tokieda | Switching gravity on and off Note: Non-standard room location! The talk will be in Hewlett 201. |
Winter 2016
Date | Speaker | Talk |
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January 7 | Jacob Fox | Ramsey Theory: Order from Disorder |
January 21 | Kannan Soundararajan | Zeros of Polynomials |
February 4 | Brian Conrad | p-adic numbers |
February 18 | Jan Vondrak | Shannon capacity, the Lovasz theta function, and semidefinite programming |
March 3 | Gunnar Carlsson | Topology for Big Data |