Fall 2022

8/26/2022: Alejandro de las Peñas Castaño - Classification of imaginary quadratic fields with unique factorization

9/2/2022: Eleftherios Chatzitheodoridis - Chain homotopy and projective resolutions

9/9/2022: Louisa Liles - A new way to build a knot: the Thompson group, representation theory, and polynomial invariants

9/16/2022: Eleanor McSpirit - Zeros in the character tables of symmetric groups with an ℓ-core index (paper)

9/23/2022: Mason Hart - 1st-year student lightning talks

9/30/2022: Wojciech Tralle - Faithfully flat descent for modules (handout)

10/7/2022: Nhan Nguyen - Real roots of random polynomials with coefficients of polynomial growth

10/14/2022: No seminar - Town hall meeting on grad exams

10/21/2022: Shunyu Wan - 3-manifolds and knots in 3-manifolds

10/28/2022: Felipe Flores Llarena - Sufficient conditions for the symmetry of algebras associated with groups and group actions (bibliography, paper)

11/4/2022: Badri Vishal Pandey - On higher Turán inequalities for plane partitions, ellipsoidal T-designs, and j-inversion ([1] Springer paper, [1] arXiv paper, [2] Springer paper, [2] arXiv paper, [3] arXiv paper; [2] is joint work with Alejandro de las Peñas Castaño.)

11/11/2022: Valentina Zapata Castro - Why model categories?

11/18/2022: Tomás Mejía Gómez (Johns Hopkins) - Equivariant cohomology and localization

11/25/2022: No seminar - Thanksgiving break

12/2/2022: Wojciech Tralle - Strong approximation for number fields (handout)

Spring 2023

1/20/2023: Maximiliano Sánchez Garza - The Erdős-Kac theorem

1/27/2023: Pedro Brunialti Lima de Andrade - A mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics (handwritten notes)

2/3/2023: Tanner Carawan - 2-Segal spaces and the S. construction

2/10/2023: Eleftherios Chatzitheodoridis - The Cohen-Seidenberg theorems

2/17/2023: Alejandro de las Peñas Castaño - Group cohomology and elementary school arithmetic: a nontrivial intersection

2/24/2023: Felipe Flores Llarena - Symmetric Banach algebras associated with discrete groupoids (paper)

3/3/2023: David Chasteen-Boyd - The effects of self-imposed social pressure on time management: a case study (outline)

3/10/2023: No seminar - Spring break

3/17/2023: Alec Traaseth - Combination theorems for discrete convergence groups

3/24/2023: No seminar - Homotopy theory in honor of Paul Goerss at Northwestern

3/31/2023: Postdoc panel, joint with the AMS graduate student chapter

4/7/2023: Aoran Wu - Von Neumann dimension

4/14/2023: Miika Tuominen - What are higher categories?

4/21/2023: Olivia Goodrich - Proper powers in SL3(Z): sieving with expander families

4/28/2023: Weinan Zhang - Schur-Weyl duality