Graduate Student Seminar

The Graduate Students Seminar aims to be a space to share knowledge in many areas of mathematics. The students are invited to give talks about their current research or any topic they might be interested.

If you have any question regarding this seminar, feel free to contact the organizers August Hozie and Kyle Celano.

Fall 2021
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 09/17/2021 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Hsin-Chieh Liao Classification of Finite Reflection Groups I
Friday 09/24/2021 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Hsin-Chieh Liao Classification of Finite Reflection Groups I
Friday 10/01/2021 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Kyle Celano GKM Theory for Equivariant Cohomology
Friday 10/22/2021 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Josef Svoboda ADE Dynkin Diagrams and du Val Singularities
Friday 10/29/2021 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Eric Ling Penrose's Singularity Theorem
Friday 11/12/2021 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 August Hozie An Introduction to Complex ODEs and Singularities

Fall 2018
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 09/07/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Kyle Celano Bruhat Order on Coxeter Groups
Friday 09/14/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 August Hozie A Gentle Intro to Fukaya Categories
Friday 09/21/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Chris Anderson The Prime and JSJ Decompositions
Friday 09/28/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Eric Ling Penrose's Singularity Theorem
Friday 10/5/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Moses Koppendrayer (Some) Knot Theory in Lens Spaces
Friday 10/12/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Annachiara Piubello Mass in General Relativity
Friday 10/26/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Nuno Cardoso Representation Theory and Algebraic Geometry
Friday 11/2/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Manuel Rivera Iterated integrals and loop spaces
Friday 11/9/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Alexander Lazar Skolem's Paradox
Friday 11/30/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Kyle Celano   Examples of the Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon
Spring 2018
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 02/02/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Eric Ling Black Holes
Friday 02/09/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 James McKeown An introduction to Artificial Neural Networks
Friday 02/16/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Alex Lazar TBD
Friday 02/23/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Melonie Graf Singularities in General Relativity
Friday 03/23/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Moses Koppendrayer TBD
Friday 03/30/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 August Hozie TBD
Friday 04/06/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Felix Gotti TBD
Friday 04/13/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 External Guest TBD
Friday 04/20/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Cody Carr TBD
Friday 04/27/2018 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402  Luis Serrano (Google)  TBD
Fall 2017
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 09/29/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 August Hozie A brief overview of Complex Surfaces
Friday 10/06/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Eric Ling Cosmology: What we know about our universe and how we know it
Friday 10/13/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Christopher Anderson Alternating knots with unknotting number 1
Friday 10/20/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 James McKeown Music Theory for Mathematicians
Friday 10/27/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Carlos Bajo Caraballo Mathematics outside Academia
Friday 11/03/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Alex Lazar Conway's Cosmological Theorem
Friday 11/10/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Moses Koppendrayer Convex Surfaces in Contact Geometry
Friday 12/01/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Jose Samper Realization Spaces
Friday 12/08/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Cody Carr An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics
Friday 12/15/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402  NO SEMINAR!  
Spring 2017
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 02/03/2017 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Chris Anderson An Introduction to the Alexander Invariant and the Alexander Polynomial 
Friday 02/10/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Hao Kang On Some Classical Analysis Problems by Baire Category Theorems
Friday 02/17/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Sam Spiro Hungarian Combinatorics
Friday 02/24/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Eric Ling The Perihelion of Mercury: A story through the minds of Kepler, Newton, Einstein, Hilbert, and Noether
Friday 03/03/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Jose Samper A Glimpse of Matroid Theory
Friday 03/10/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Brittney Ellzey Walks on edge-weighted graphs
Friday 03/24/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Moses Koppendrayer Grid diagrams and arc index of Torus knots
Friday 03/31/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Jorge Cardona Set-valued analysis and selection theorems
Friday 04/14/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Drew Armstrong Archimedes and the Existence of pi
Friday 04/21/2017 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Alex Lazar The Chip-Firing Game
Fall 2016
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 09/09/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Brittney Ellzey Interval Graphs and Circular Arc Graphs
Friday 09/16/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Eric Ling Quantum Theory and the Origin of Spin
Friday 09/23/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Chris Langdon Symmetric Twisted Differentials on Projective Subvarieties
Friday 09/30/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Victor Garcia Herrero Numerical and geometrical fallacies
Friday 10/14/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 August Hozie The Arithmetization of Syntax
Friday 10/28/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Moses Koppendrayer Quasipositivity and the Ozsvath and Szabo Contact Invariant
Friday 11/04/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 James McKeown An Introduction to Hyperplane Arrangements
Friday 11/11/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Jorge Cardona Multiplication of Distributions
Spring 2016
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 01/29/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Alexander Lazar Matroids and the Greedy Algorithm
Friday 02/05/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Andy Smith An Introduction to the Surreal Numbers
Friday 02/12/2016 6:00PM - 7:00PM UB402 Michela di Marca On the diameter of dual graphs of projective varieties
Friday 02/19/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 James McKeown The Combinatorics of the Waldspurger Decomposition
Friday 03/25/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Moses Koppendrayer Prime Knot Theorem
Friday 04/01/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Eric Ling Before the Big Bang?
Friday 04/08/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Ondrej Zjevik Numerical Quadrature
Friday 04/15/2016 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Jorge Cardona PDEs on Curved Space Time
Friday 04/22/2016 5:00PM-6:00PM UB402 Armando Cabrera Relativity in 1+1 dimensions?
Fall 2015
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 09/11/2015 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Eric Ling Does The Universe Have a Beginning?
Friday 09/25/2015 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Alex Lazar Game Theory and Nash Equilibria
Friday 10/02/2015 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Chris Anderson Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
Friday 10/16/2015 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Brittney Ellzey An Introduction to Umbral Calculus
Friday 10/23/2015 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Armando Cabrera Mathematics and General Relativity
Friday 10/30/2015 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Chris Langdon Groebner Bases
Friday 11/06/2015 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Michael Weiss Fast Multiplication Algorithms
Friday 11/13/2015 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Jorge Cardona Hamiltonian Dynamics and PDEs
Friday 12/04/2015 5:00PM - 6:00PM UB402 Yishu Song A Brief Survey on Quasi-stationary Distribution  
Spring 2015
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 01/30/2015 3:30PM - 4:30PM UB402 David Udumyan Metric Analysis, properties and applications
Friday 02/06/2015 3:30PM - 4:30PM UB402 Alex Lazar Set theory and Aronszajn Trees
Friday 02/13/2015 3:30PM - 4:30PM UB402 Yishu Song Diffusion processes and differential equations
Friday 02/20/2015 3:30PM - 4:30PM UB402 Prayat Poudel Singular Instanton Knot Homology
Friday 03/06/2015 3:30PM - 4:30PM UB402 Chris Langdon The Card Game 'Set' and its structure
Friday 03/20/2015 3:30PM - 4:30PM UB402 Brittney Ellzey Graph Colorings and Symmetric Functions
Friday 03/27/2015 3:30PM - 4:30PM UB402 Dr. Greg Galloway On the topology of black holes and beyond
Friday 04/03/2015 3:30PM - 4:30PM UB402 Armando Cabrera The What, How and Why of Ricci Flow
Friday 04/10/2015 3:30PM - 4:30PM UB402 Ziqian Ding Something on Catalan Numbers  
Friday 04/17/2015 3:30PM - 4:30PM UB402 Jorge Cardona On Schrodinger Equation
Friday 04/24/2015 3:30PM - 4:30PM UB 402 Dr. Drew Armstrong Mathematics of Music
Fall 2014
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 09/12/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Christopher Langdon Hodge Numbers
Friday 09/19/2014 4:30PM - 5:30PM UB402 Alex Lazar The Tropical Picard Group
Friday 09/26/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Jorge Cardona On Markov Chains
Friday 10/03/2014 2:15PM - 3:15PM UB402 Prayat Poudel What is...Gauge Theory?
Friday 10/10/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Brittney Ellzey What is Ehrhart Theory?
Friday 10/24/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Yishu Song Self-Organized Criticality
Friday 10/31/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Dr. Ken Baker Torus knots, cable spaces, and Dehn surgery
Friday 11/07/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Armando Cabrera Some concepts in General Relativity
Friday 11/14/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Ziqian Ding Symmetric Group and Noncrossing Partitions
Spring 2014
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 01/31/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Rafael S. González D'León The combinatorial structure behind multibracketed free Lie algebras 
Friday 02/07/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Prayat Poudel SU(2) Representation Varieties of 3-Manifolds
Friday 02/14/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Armando Cabrera The Weyl Problem
Friday 02/21/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Kyle Evans Different viewpoints on SO(3)
Friday 02/28/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Dr. Drew Armstrong Pascal's Mystic Hexagram
Friday 03/21/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Dr. Richard P. Stanley Alternating permutations
Friday 03/28/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Brittney Ellzey The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth Correspondence
Friday 04/04/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Jorge Cardona TBA
Friday 04/11/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Yishu Song TBA
Friday 04/18/2014 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Chris Langdon TBA  
Fall 2013
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 09/20/2013 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Dr. Drew Armstrong What is ADE?
Friday 09/27/2013 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Bridget Toomey Evaluating Phases and Orientations of Given Atomic Structures
Friday 10/04/2013 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Armando Cabrera The Isoperimetric Inequality and the Curve Shortening Flow
Friday 10/11/2013 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Dr. Kwok-Kun Kwong Hearing the shape of a drum
Friday 10/25/2013 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Dr. Anton Dochtermann Topological data analysis
Friday 11/01/2013 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Rafael S. González D'León The combinatorial structure behind the free Lie algebra
Friday 11/08/2013 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Kyle Evans Group Cohomology and Group Extensions
Friday 11/15/2013 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Cancelled  
Friday 11/22/2013 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Prayat Poudel Morse Theory and Handle Decomposition
Friday 12/06/2013 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Chris Langdon Visualizing Complex Functions Using Domain Coloring
Spring 2013
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 02/01/2013 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Matthias Leuenberger Automorphisms of C^n and Danielewski surfaces
Friday 02/08/2013 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Dr. Marta Alpar Flothmann (Mostly) Basic Constructions of Category Theory
Friday 02/15/2013 2:00PM - 3:00PM UB402 Carlos Bajo Simplicial spanning trees
Friday 02/22/2013 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Dr. Anton Dochtermann Basics of Gröbner bases
Friday 03/01/2013 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Prayat Poudel Introduction to Dehn Surgery
Friday 03/08/2013 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Rafael González D'León Introduction to graph coloring
Friday 03/22/2013 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Cancelled  
Friday 03/29/2013 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Andrew Sanchez Curvature, Areas and Volumes
Friday 04/5/2013 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Blake Icabone The Poincaré-Hopf Theorem
Friday 04/12/2013 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Dr. Alexander Dvorsky Is exp(pi * sqrt (163)) odd or even?
Friday 04/19/2013 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Armando Cabrera A discrete version of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem
Friday 04/26/2013 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Dr. Shigui Ruan Modeling the Transmission Dynamics of Influenza
Fall 2012
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 09/07/2012 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Prayat Poudel Introduction to knot theory
Friday 09/14/2012 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Armando Cabrera The Zeeman Topology on the Minkowski Spacetime
Friday 09/21/2012 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Andrew Sanchez Markov Chains
Friday 09/28/2012 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Dr. Eric Harper SU(N) Casson-Lin invariants for links
Friday 10/05/2012 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Cancelled Cancelled
Friday 10/12/2012 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Dr. Drew Armstrong Plinko and the geometry of hypercubes
Friday 10/19/2012 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Dr. Anton Dochtermann Links in embedded graphs
Friday 11/02/2012 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Rafael S. González D'León About Algebras and Operads
Friday 11/09/2012 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 David Raps Triangles and Suicidal Clowns
Friday 11/16/2012 3:45PM - 4:45PM UB402 Dr. Ken Baker Lens space surgeries, bandings of links, and DNA recombination
Spring 2012
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 02/03/2012 2:15PM - 3:15PM UB402 Dr. Anton Dochtermann, University of Miami Topology of colorings and graph homomorphisms
Friday 02/10/2012 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Armando Cabrera Special Relativity from an intuitive viewpoint through Spacetime Diagrams
Friday 02/17/2012 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Rafael S. González D'León A cell structure for Grassmann Manifolds
Friday 02/24/2012 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Kyle Evans Division Algebras
Friday 03/02/2012 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Dr. Nikolai Saveliev, University of Miami The Triangulation Conjecture
Friday 03/23/2012 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Prayat Poudel Yang-Mills Theory and the Maxwell Equations
Friday 03/30/2012 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Dr. Daniel A. Díaz Pachón, University of Miami Allocations: what they are and some open problems
Friday 04/06/2012 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 David Harden Spin Groups
Friday 04/13/2012 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Christopher Smith Exotic 7-Spheres
Friday 04/20/2012 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Yijia Liu Almost Complex Structures
Friday 04/27/2012 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Xiaocong Deng De Rham's theorem
Fall 2011
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 09/09/2011 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Rafael S. González D'León What is... a Matroid?
Friday 09/16/2011 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Dr. Ken Baker, University of Miami An Introduction to Representations of sl2(C)
Friday 09/23/2011 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Dr. Drew Armstrong, University of Miami What is... a Root System?
Friday 09/30/2011 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Christopher Harris Some Infinite Dimensional Groups and Algebras
Friday 10/07/2011 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Prayat Poudel Introduction to Vector Bundles
Friday 10/21/2011 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Dr. Gabriel Kerr, University of Miami A gentle introduction to mirror symmetry
Friday 10/28/2011 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Dr. Shulim Kaliman, University of Miami Algebraic automorphisms of Euclidean spaces
Friday 11/04/2011 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Daozhou Gao A survey of three-dimensional competitive Lotka-Volterra systems
Friday 11/11/2011 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Carlos Vega The Gromov-Hausdorff Topology: Taking Limits of Riemannian Manifolds
Friday 11/18/2011 4:00PM - 5:00PM UB402 Armando Cabrera An introduction to Lagrangian Coherent Structures
Spring 2011
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 02/04/2011 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Christopher Harris What is... a Modular Form?
Friday 02/11/2011 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Christopher Harris (CANCELLED)What is... a Modular Form?(Part II)
Friday 02/18/2011 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Prayat Poudel What is... Morse Theory?
Friday 02/25/2011 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Carlos Vega Walkable Spacetimes
Friday 03/04/2011 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Daozhou Gao A Brief Introduction to Epidemic Patch Models
Friday 03/11/2011 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Julian Moorehead Partial Set Partition Lattices
Friday 03/25/2011 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Daniel Ryan Alignment of DNA Sequences
Friday 04/01/2011 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Dr. Drew Armstrong, University of Miami What a field "really is"
Friday 04/08/2011 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Liz Jimenez Enumerating faces of Zonohedra
Friday 04/15/2011 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB506 Matthew Hyatt On the Littlewood-Richardson Rule
Fall 2010
Date Time Room Speaker Title
Friday 09/10/2010 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB411 Christopher Harris Geometry in Classical Mechanics
Friday 09/17/2010 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Rafael S. González D'León About the Potts model and some of its combinatorial relations
Friday 09/24/2010 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Dr. Ken Baker, University of Miami "The Montesinos Trick"
Friday 10/01/2010 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Douglas Schieb A Survey of Mathematical Models of Biological Systems
Friday 10/08/2010 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Julian Moorehead A Brief Survey of Posets and Their Topology
Friday 10/22/2010 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Kyle Evans Markov chains and a few thought experiments
Friday 10/29/2010 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Matthew Hyatt Double Feature
Friday 11/05/2010 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Armando Cabrera Mathematical Relativity and a compactification of the Minkowski Spacetime
Friday 11/12/2010 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 Carlos Vega Spacetime, Singularities, and the Bartnik Conjecture
Friday 11/19/2010 2:30PM - 3:30PM UB402 David Harden The Leech Lattice

Fall 2019 – Spring 2021
August Hozie
Kyle Celano

Fall 2015 – Spring 2018
Alex Lazar
James McKeown

Fall 2012 – Spring 2014
Armando Cabrera
Prayat Poudel

Fall 2010 – Spring 2012
Christopher Harris
Rafael S. González D'León

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