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 | Elizabeth Hankins | TBA | TBA |
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| October 24 | |||
| October 31 | Jacob Wood | TBA | TBA |
| November 7 | Sapir Ben-Shahar | TBA | TBA |
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| November 28 | THANKSGIVING | NONE | NONE |
| December 5 |