Current Topics Seminar
Current Topics Seminar
Starting in 2021-2022, the Current Topics Seminar will meet only in Autumn quarter. The meetings are on Thursdays 4:30-5:30pm in PDL C-38. The goal is to expose graduate students, especially those still trying to decide on research areas, to research being actively explored in the department. Mathematics faculty members give talks about their work, at a level suitable for first-year graduate students.
This seminar is organized by the graduate student representative (GSR).
We strongly encourage all first-year students to sign up for this seminar (for 2 credits), and attend all of its meetings.
Past Events
- Melting of ice, meatloaf and wall problems: an introduction to free boundary problems (Mariana Smit Vega Garcia) -
- Inverse Problems and Harry Potter's Cloak (Gunther Uhlmann) -
- Optimization and complexity (Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy) -
- A tale of two polynomials (Jarod Alper, University of Washington) -
- Intro to random graphs and their connections with random matrices (Ioana Dumitriu, University of Washington) -