AMS Student Chapter Seminar

The AMS Student Chapter Seminar (aka Donut Seminar) is an informal, graduate student seminar on a wide range of mathematical topics. The goal of the seminar is to promote community building and give graduate students an opportunity to communicate fun, accessible math to their peers in a stress-free (but not sugar-free) environment. Pastries (usually donuts) will be provided.

• When: Thursdays 4:00-4:30pm
• Where: Van Vleck, 9th floor lounge (unless otherwise announced)
• Organizers: Ivan Aidun, Kaiyi Huang, Ethan Schondorf

Everyone is welcome to give a talk. To sign up, please contact one of the organizers with a title and abstract. Talks are 25 minutes long and should avoid assuming significant mathematical background beyond first-year graduate courses.

The schedule of talks from past semesters can be found here.

Fall 2024

Date	Speaker	Title	Abstract
September 12	Ari Davidovsky	95% of people can't solve this!	We will attempt to answer this question and along the way explore how algebra and geometry work together to solve problems in number theory.
September 19	CANCELLED	NONE	NONE
September 26	Mateo Morales	Officially petitioning the department to acquire a ping pong table.	Ever want to prove something is a free group of rank 2? Me too. One way to do this is to use a ping pong argument of how a group generated by two elements acts on a set. I will illustrate the ping pong argument using an example of matrices, explain how it works, and explain why, kinda. Very approachable if you know what a group is but does require tons of ping pong experience.
October 3	Karthik Ravishankar	Incompleteness for the working mathematician	In this talk we'll take a look at Gödels famous incompleteness theorems and look at some of its immediate as well as interesting consequences. No background in logic is necessary!
October 10
October 17
October 24
October 31	Jacob Wood	TBA	TBA
November 7	Sapir Ben-Shahar	TBA	TBA
November 14
November 21
November 28	THANKSGIVING	NONE	NONE
December 5