The Seminar is a class-length (i.e. 50-minute) lecture aimed at graduate students. It is semi-formal, usually with pizza beforehand. Ideally, it describes current research being done by professors in the department at a 'softball' level suitable for graduate students taking or having recently passed the qualifying exams, and possibly seeking an interesting research niche. More broadly, it is commensurate with the Seminar's objectives to provide graduate students an overview of a niche in which they have not specialized, often by providing a sketch of one of the professors occasionally attend as well.)
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tue, 22 Jan 2008 | Nigel Higson | Weyl's asymptotic law |
| Tue, 5 Feb 2008 | Anna Mazzucato | An introduction to the Navier-Stokes equations of Fluid Mechanics |
| Tue, 19 Feb 2008 | Dmitry Fuchs, UC Davis | Foliations and their characteristic classes |
| Tue, 4 Mar 2008 | Mihran Papikian | What is a Drinfeld module? |
| Tue, 18 Mar 2008 | Leonid Vaserstein | J. Nash and Game Theory |
| Tue, 1 Apr 2008 | Alberto Bressan | Controlling the ski, the swing, and swim-like motion in a perfect fluid |
| Tue, 9 Sep 2008 | John Roe | Make Money Fast! Metric spaces, algebras and amenability |
| Tue, 23 Sep 2008 | Dima Burago | Norms on groups of geometric origin |
| Tue, 4 Nov 2008 | George Andrews, Penn State | The Lost Notebook of Ramanujan |
| Tue, 18 Nov 2008 | To Be Announced | |
| Tue, 25 Nov 2008 | To Be Announced | |
| Tue, 2 Dec 2008 | Sergei Tabachnikov, Penn State | Tire tracks geometry, hatchet planimeter and Menzin's conjecture |
| Tue, 16 Dec 2008 | To Be Announced |