Speaker Series
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 50-series.
Speaker Series is held (approximately) alternate Mondays 6:00 to 7:00pm during Winter and Spring quarters unless otherwise noted. Talks will be held in the Ricker Dining Green Room at 238 Santa Teresa St, Stanford. Please feel free to bring dinner from Ricker Dining into the room before the talk.
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2017–2018 Schedule
Winter 2018
| Date | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| January 15 | No talk! (MLK day) | |
| January 22 | Brian Conrad | Rational Points on Conics |
| February 12 | Kannan Soundararajan | The Erdős Discrepancy Problem |
| February 19 | Alex Wright | How Many Evenly Curved Once Punctured Tori are There? |
| February 26 | Jenny Wilson | SET |
| March 8 | Jonathan Mattingly | Quantifying Gerrymandering: A Mathematician Goes to Court Note: Non-standard day, time, and room location! The talk will begin at 4:30pm in Building 200-002 on a Thursday. |
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| April 9 | Jonathan Luk | On Falling Into Black Holes |
| April 10 | Various Panelists | Math Graduate School Panel Note: Occurs 6:00-7:30pm in 384-H |
| May 7 | Jan Vondrak | Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem and Fair Division |