A PhD student seminar series to learn simple yet seminal concepts of Pure Mathematics

45 mins of time | a single concept

SPRING 2022 PILOT

Ilia Gaiur The symplectic facet of Noether's theorem

Gianmarco Brocchi Induction on scales

Andrea Freschi Erdős' probabilistic method

AUTUMN 2022

Ricky Hutchins When is a property typical?

Matthew Chaffe The Trichotomy theorem

Michele Ferrante The Finite Intersection property

Aimeric Malter Derived categories

Andrea Freschi Szemerédi Regularity lemma

Nikos Ladas Maximum, Minimum & Comparison principles

SPRING 2023

Benedetta Facciotti The mechanical facet of symplectic geometry

Alexander Fruh Hodge theory: connecting Algebra and Analysis

Joel Summerfield Non-uniqueness results

Will Turner What's a matroid?

Bim Gustavsson Exceptional sticking for acyclic Nakayama algebras

Pablo Timonedo Ovieda Hall's theorem

AUTUMN 2023

Camila Zárate Guerén On Ramsey theory

Arnaud Dumont Riemann’s nowhere-differentiable function 

George Bender Gödel's proof

Wilbur Halford Provability logic and self-referential sentences 

Debmalya Bandyopadhyay Some proofs of Turán's theorem 

Xinran Zheng Markov decision processes

I created the series in spring 2022, and run it till the end of 2023. Since spring 2024, the series is led by Arnaud Dumont.