"Symmetric Group S_n and its Kissing Cousins"
Ta Khongsap
April 25, 2008
The seminar was designed with several goals in mind. The seminar gives everyone a chance to interact outside of class while providing exposure to some of the current interests of the department. As a result, graduate students in their early years have a chance to become more familiar with the potential areas of study. Perhaps the most important goal of the seminar is to provide graduate students with an open forum in which to practice giving mathematical talks in a supportive environment.
The seminar was intended for graduate students and junior faculty in
an attempt to foster a less intimidating atmosphere for discussion.
Such a friendly, informal environment not only makes it easier for the
speakers, but promotes more audience participation. Most talks last
about 45 minutes, which leaves sufficient time for comments and questions
afterward. There have been a wide variety of topics covered.
Many speakers have presented material related to their research while others
have chosen to speak about topics that may not be directly related to their
studies. Some people have even used the seminar to prepare for professional
talks. Though topics vary, the goal is to keep the mathematical intensity
at an appropriate level so that graduate students not specializing in that
discipline can still follow the presentation and learn something.
| January 18 | Christopher Hammond | "Composition Operators on Spaces on Analytic Functions " |
| February 8 | Nick Hamlet | "A First Chapter on p-adics" |
| February 22 | Katy Ott | "Math and More: A Personal Perspective on the Graduate Experience at UVA" |
| March 28 | Rafaela Guberovic | "Existence and Uniqueness of the Solution of the Homogeneous Navier-Stokes Equation" |
| April 4 | Jing Zhang | "Solvability of Linear Quadratic Optimal Control Problems and its Relation with Riccati Equations" |
| April 25 | Ta Khongsap | "Symmetric Group S_n and its Kissing Cousins" |
| September 14 | Joseph Johnson | "Incompleteness and Undecidability - A Choose Your Own Adventure" |
| October 5 | Katie Quertermous | "Almost Periodic Functions" |
| October 12 | Eric Finster | "Mobius Functions on Partially Ordered Sets" |
| October 19 | Christian Gromoll, Tunde Jakab, and Tai Melcher | "Getting a Job/Post-doc in Mathematics" |
| November 9 | Rafaela Guberovic | "Hilbert Transform and Other Singular Integral Operators" |
| November 16 | Andy Heald and Matt Zaremsky | "Irreducible Representations of Metacyclic Groups: The Waffle Method" |
If you are interested in speaking, please contact Rebecca or Katie Q.
Last updated April 17, 2008