PuMaGraSS is a friendly graduate student seminar that takes place every Friday during the semester and includes (free!) lunch. Every week features a casual talk by a graduate student from our department on an exciting mathematical topic.
Although there is a "pure" in the name of the seminar, we also welcome talks on combinatorics, probability theory, dynamical systems and more!
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep. 25, 2020 | Ethan Sussman | What is a Quantum Field Theory? |
| Oct. 2, 2020 | Yan Sheng Ang | Computing fractal dimension: McMullen's eigenvalue algorithm |
| Oct. 9, 2020 | Jonathan Tidor | Roth's Theorem in F_3^n |
| Oct. 16, 2020 | Elia Portnoy | Knot Distortions |
| Oct. 23, 2020 | Alexey Balitskiy | On the isometric conjecture of Banach, which might not hold for dimension 133 |
| Oct. 30, 2020 | Anlong Chua | Positive polynomials and sums of squares |
| Nov 6, 2020 | Andrey Khesin | What is the configuration space of a cockroach? |
| Nov 13, 2020 | Pu Yu | The KPZ equations & their applications |
| Nov 20, 2020 | Robin Elliott | Auction Theory |
| Dec 4, 2020 | Roger Van Peski | TBD |
It is a tradition that three second year PhD students run PuMaGraSS. It is a fantastic experience!