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.

A list of previous speakers and talks can be found here.

Spring 2013

We meet Friday at 4 pm in RLM 10.176.

Date Speaker Title
1/18/2013   Organizational Meeting
1/25/2013 Javier Morales Calibrated complex structures on the space of Hermitian matrixes (in $\mathbb{C}^n$) with a fixed spectrum of distinct eigenvalues
2/1/2013 Luis Duque Some stuff about non-necessarily associative (NNA) algebras
2/8/2013 Cornelia Mihaila Hypergraphs and their applications
2/15/2013 Allison Miller Tangles, ravels, and spatial graphs
2/22/2013 Soledad Villar The congruent number problem
3/1/2013 Valentin Zakharevich Introduction to Model Theory
3/8/2013 Tianran Geng Why is pi irrational?
3/15/2013   Spring break: no Sophex seminar
3/22/2013 Richard Hughes Deformation Cohomology
3/29/2013 Tim Carson Modal Logic
4/5/2013 Tim Magee Cluster algebras and the Laurent phenomenon
4/12/2013 Pulak Goswami Optimizing Insider Information
4/19/2013 Robin Neumayer An Introduction to Optimal Transport
4/26/2013 Roman Fayvisovich
The Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing