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.