Graduate Student Seminar

Fall 2003

Recent Events

Enrollment party, 4:30pm-5:30pm, Dec. 2nd, 2003

Meeting time and place

	4:30-5:30pm, Tuesdays
	Room 317, Goldsmith

Scheduled talks

September 16th, 4:30 pm

	Speaker: Ji Li
	Title: Eulerian Numbers - some easy Combinatorics

September 23rd, 4:30 pm

	Speaker: Anton Geraschenko
	Title: Category theory: it's like sand

September 30th, 4:30 pm

	Speaker: Emrah Paksoy
	Title: Calabi-Yau manifolds and Configurations

October 21st, 4:30 pm

	Speaker: Seunghwan Chang
	Title: 3-adic Calculus and Arithmetic
	Synopsis: We will have a look at instances where calculus on p-adic normed spaces leads to a nice statement in arithmetic.

October 28th, 4:30 pm

	Speaker: Anna Varvak
	Title: WhAt you Always wAnted to know About generAting functions but were AfrAid to Ask

November 4th, 4:30 pm

	Speaker: Brian
	Title: Totally Non-negative Matrices and the Bruhat Order of the Symmetric Group: A mouthful of tasty combinatorics

November 11th, 4:30 pm

	Speaker: Aftab Pande
	Title: Algebraic Groups

November 18th, 4:30 pm

	Speaker: T. Kyle Petersen
	Title: Bulgarian Solitaire

November 25th, 4:30 pm

	Speaker: Hee Jung Kim
	Title: Twists on 4-dim manifolds

Statement of Purpose

Every graduate student of Mathematics is invited (encouraged!) to give a talk. You most certainly do NOT have to present original work. The talks should be accessible to any bright graduate student, at any level of their studies. You can present a topic that most people may not have heard about (what is the Monster? what is a Grove?), or things people may have heard about but have no idea what it is (what is a Calabai-Yau manifold? what is a scheme?)

Come to hear new topics, learn new methods, build camaraderie with your fellow graduate students... and most importantly - eat some free pizza!

Contact us

	Anna Varvak: : anka at brandeis.edu
	T. Kyle Petersen: tkpeters at brandeis.edu
	Ji Li: liji at brandeis.edu