The Schedule

The Zoom link for the seminar is here. The password is the dimension of the Leech lattice.

Fall 2021

Thursday

2nd September

"What is... resolvent degree?"

Alex Sutherland

Thursday

9th September

"What are... Lojasiewicz inequalities in geometry?"

Max Engelstein

Thursday

16th September

"What is... Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity?"

Juliette Bruce

Thursday

23rd September

"What is... an error correcting code?"

Ray Li

Thursday

30th September

"What is... an Iwasawa algebra?"

Billy Woods

Thursday

7th October

"What is... a Cohen-Macaulay ring?"

Ben Blum-Smith

Thursday

14th October

"What is... the defect?"

Vaidehee Thatte

Thursday

21st October

"What is... supersingular elliptic curve cryptography?"

Sarah Arpin

Thursday

28th October

"What is... a scheme?"

Deewang Bhamidipati

Thursday

4th November

"What is... a quantum algorithm?"

Tim Hosgood

Thursday

11th November

"What is... an exceptional collection?"

Mahrud Sayrafi

Thursday

18th November

"What is... an Euler system?"

Wojtek Wawrów

Thursday

2nd December

"What is... a Cayley diagram?"

Matt Macauley


Thursday

9th December

"What is... the Langlands program?"

Anton Hilado


Thursday

16th December

"What is... a Selmer group?"

Sunil Chetty


Spring 2021

Thursday

7th January

"What is... a toric variety?"

Alicia Lamarche

Thursday

14th January

"What is... an elliptic curve?"

Álvaro Lozano-Robledo

Thursday

21st January

"What is… the mixing time of a Markov chain?"

John Rahmani

Thursday

28th January

"What is... a cluster algebra?"

Libby Farrell

Thursday

4th February

"What is... a Hurwitz zeta function?"

Tung Nguyen

Thursday

11th February

"What is... metric number theory?"

Dan Alvey

Thursday

18th February

“What is... a differentiable stack?”

Praphulla Koushik

Thursday

25th February

"What is... a mapping class group?"

Marissa Kawehi Loving

Thursday

4th March

“What is... the étale fundamental group?”

Daniel Litt

Thursday

11th March

"What is... a finite geometry?"

Anurag Bishnoi

Thursday

18th March

"What is... a rigid analytic space?"

Ashwin Iyengar

Thursday

25th March

"What is... information geometry?"

Erick Galinkin

Thursday

1st April

"What is... a graph reconstruction?"

Carla Groenland

Thursday

8th April

"What is... a random polyomino?"

Érika Roldán

Thursday

15th April

“What is... a moduli space?”

Andrew Kobin

Thursday

22th April

“What is... a commutative BCK-algebra?”

Matt Evans

Thursday

29th April

“What is... arithmetic topology?”

David Corwin