Binghamton Math GSS

Comic featuring several stick figures standing around under a banner that reads "Mathematical Society, 2025 Meeting." On the wall is a poster with several numbers including 23 skidoo, 42, 1337, 69, 58008, 420, and 67. One figure is circling the 67. Originally taken from xkcd 3184: Funny Numbers, with all spoken text removed.

Usual meetings: 5:15pm Fridays at WH 100E.

The Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar seeks to strengthen communication among grad students at Binghamton University, thereby cultivating our community and fostering a friendly environment in which to do mathematics research.

Talks in any topic are welcome! We have had speakers across many fields of pure and applied mathematics.

To schedule a talk, contact Eric Yin via email (eyin1@binghamton.edu) or via Discord.

Fall 2026 Schedule

Aug. 21st
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Title: Welcome Party!

Abstract: Open to all graduate students! We will have food and drinks, feel free to bring board games or anything else you see fit.

Aug. 28th
Speaker: Sylvia Medlin
Title: Ideal Triangulations of Knot Complements

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Given a knot $K\subset \mathbb S^3$, the complement $\mathbb S^3 \setminus K$ often admits an interesting geometric structure that allows one to distinguish it from other knots. An ideal triangulation of $\mathbb S^3 \setminus K$ is a combinatorial structure that one can use to determine whether the knot complement admits a hyperbolic structure and, if they exist, to parametrize them. In this talk, I will introduce methods for producing ideal triangulations of a knot complement and how to use them to compute hyperbolic structures.

Sep. 4th
Speaker: Eric Yin
Title: Representation Theory over Fields of Any Characteristic

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The representation theory of finite groups over the complex numbers, or more generally a field of characteristic zero, is largely concerned with understanding irreducible representations, as due to Maschke's theorem, all other representations can be written as direct sums of irreducible representations. Moving to fields with arbitrary characteristic, Maschke's theorem no longer holds in general, and thus understanding irreducible representations is no longer sufficient. In this talk we discuss a module-theoretic perspective of representation theory, and how classical theorems of representation theory over C can be generalized to results about representation theory over any algebraically closed field.

Sep. 11th - Rosh Hashanah

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Sep. 25th
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Oct. 30th
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Nov. 27th - Thanksgiving Break

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