The Stanford University Mathematical Organization hosts a speaker series, meeting every week on Wednesday. The purpose of this series is to expose undergraduates to some topics not normally covered in the classroom, as well as to introduce them to Stanford's faculty and community. Each week a different speaker, who may be a Stanford professor, student, or visitor, presents on a topic of interest to undergraduates. All talks will be accessible to freshmen in the 50-series. Food is provided by Pizza Chicago. If you have any suggestions or would like to suggest a speaker, please e-mail sumo at math dot stanford dot edu
All talks will be on Wednesdays, 4:15-5:05, in room 380-380C (in the basement of the math building).
| September 23 | Professor Brian Conrad | Constructing a regular 17-gon |
| September 30 | Professor John Stillwell (USF) | From perspective drawing to the eighth dimension |
| October 7 | Professor Marty Weissman (UC Santa Cruz) | A well-rounded discussion of spheres |
| October 14 | Professor Andrew Snowden | A few cellular automata |
| October 21 | Professor Samuel Lisi | Three centuries of the 3-body problem |
| October 28 | Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo | Integer Partitions |
| November 4 | Professor Thomas Banchoff (Brown) | The Two-Piece Property |
| November 11 | Rebecca Bellovin | Public-key cryptography, blind signatures, and digital cash |
| November 18 | Professor Melanie Wood | Ramsey Theory: Amongst enough chaos, can we find order? |
| November 25 | Thanksgiving Recess | |
| December 2 | Professor Jacob Lurie (Harvard) | Combinatorial Game Theory |
| January 6 | Professor Brian Conrad | p-adic numbers: theory and applications |
| January 13 | Professor Ilya Spitkovsky (William and Mary) | |
| January 20 | Professor Karen Vogtmann (Cornell) | |
| January 27 | Professor Ravi Vakil | |
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