Sophex Seminar

Sophex is a seminar in the UT math department specifically for first and second years to give talks, attend talks by their peers, and interact in a friendly environment.

Spring 2012

We meet at 4 pm in RLM 10.176.

Date Speaker Title
1/20/2012   Organizational Meeting
1/27/2012 Rahul Shah Intro to Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians
2/3/2012 Adam Hughes An Introduction to Number Theory
2/10/2012 Lee Cohn Covering Spaces from a Categorical Viewpoint
2/17/2012 Roberta Guadagni The Seifert Surface of a Knot
2/24/2012 Michelle Chu The Complement of the Figure-8 Knot
3/9/2012 Dennis Kriventsov Calculus on Fractals
3/23/2012 Julia Bennett Symplectic Vector Spaces
3/30/2012 Claudia Raithel Lagrange's Four Squares Theorem via Minkowski's Theorem
4/6/2012 Yimin Zhong Log-concavity and Fundamental Gap conjecture
4/20/2012 Sona Akopian TBA
4/27/2012 Aaron Fenyes TBA