Sophex

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. If you would like to be added to the seminar mailing list or are interested in giving a talk contact Kai Nakamura (kainakamura@utexas.edu).

We meet Fridays at 4 pm in RLM 12.104.

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	Title
02/08/2019	Kai Nakamura	The wild world of symplectic 4-manifolds
02/15/2019	N/A	Board Games
02/22/2019	N/A	Field Trip
03/01/2019	N/A	Talent Show
03/08/2019	Charlie Reid	TBA
03/15/2019	N/A	Show & Tell
03/22/2019	N/A	No meeting due to spring break
03/29/2019	N/A	Scavenger Hunt
04/5/2019	N/A	April Fools Talk
04/12/2019	Joe Jackson??
04/19/2019	N/A	Field Trip
04/26/2019	N/A	Egg drop
05/03/2019	N/A	Sidewalk Chalk Talk
05/10/2019	N/A	Pub Crawl

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Title
09/07/2018	Tynan Ochse	p-adic Differentiation
09/14/2018	Charlie Reid	The Tropical Grassmannian is Tree Space
09/21/2018	Will Stewart	Lie algebras and their role in conformal field theory
09/28/2018	Joe Jackson	Excited Random Walks and their Asymptotics
10/05/2018	Shiyu Liang	Non-left orderable surguries on 1-bridge braids
10/12/2018	Joe Miller	On Kakeya sets
10/19/2018	Sean Sommers	Forecasting Methods in Time Series Analysis
10/26/2018	Natalie Hollenbaugh	The Ideal Class Group and Fermat's Last Theorem
11/02/2018	Daniel Restropo Montoya	Critical points and symmetries in PDE
11/09/2018	Alberto San Miguel	Cayley Graphs
11/16/2018	Kai Nakamura	Mapping Class Groups of Surfaces
11/23/2018		No Sophex due to Thanksgiving break
11/30/2018	Casandra Monroe	Turing Machines™ and their properties
12/07/2018	No Speaker (Crown)	No speaker for the last week of classes, we'll have Sophex at the crown this week

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	Title
9/8/2017	Riley Zeigler	Norm-Perfect Numbers
9/15/2017	Rok Gregoric	Loops, representations, and Riemann-Roch
9/22/2017	Jincheng Yang	Stability and instability of shear flow in a rotating system
9/29/2017	Dan Weser	Crash Course in Optimal Transport
10/6/2017	Riccardo Pedrotti	A Very Brief Introduction to Stable Classification of 4-Manifolds
10/13/2017	Richard Wedeen	Fundamental Groups, Galois Groups, and Riemann Surfaces
10/20/2017	Nes Sansawang
10/27/2017	Ruhui Jin
11/3/2017	Danielle King
11/10/3017	Alain Olavarrieta
11/17/2017	Amit Adhikari
11/24/2017	No Speaker	(Thanksgiving)
12/1/2017	George Torres
12/8/2017

A list of previous speakers and talks can be found listed below.

Spring 2017

Date	Speaker	Title
1/27/2016	Sebastian Schultz	Quiver Representations
2/3/2017	Darren King	Viscosity Solutions in PDE
2/10/2017	Tom Gannon	The Artin-Schreier Theorem
2/17/2017	Kenny Schefers	The Milnor Fibration and Singularities of Complex Hypersurfaces
2/24/2017	Keyi Wu	Introduction of Sampling Methods for Uncertainty Quantification
3/3/2017	Yixian Wu	Introduction to p-Adic Numbers
3/10/2017	Ruth Navarre	Moment Generating Functions
3/17/2017	(No Speaker)	Spring Break
3/24/2017	Teddy Weisman
3/31/3017	Tom Gannon
4/7/2017	Maria Soria Carro
4/14/2017	Neža Zager Korenjak
4/21/2017	Shalin Parekh
4/28/2017	Ignacio Tomasetti
5/5/2017	Michael Hott

Fall 2016

Date	Speaker	Title
9/2/2016	Tom Gannon	Measurability and the Banach-Tarski Paradox
9/9/2016	Austin Alderete	A Vanishing Bridge: Hilbert's Link Between Algebra and Geometry
9/16/2016	Neža Žager Korenjak	Theorems on Compactness
9/23/2016	Jay Hathaway	Representation Theory and Spectroscopy
9/30/2016	Teddy Weisman	Spectral Graph Theory and Expander Derandomization
10/7/2016	Michael Hott	Rearrangement Inequalities
10/14/2016	Johnathan Johnson	The Alexander Polynomial of a Knot via Siefert Surfaces
10/21/2016	Kendric Schefers	Proving Kneser's conjecture using the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem
10/28/2016	Gillian Grindstaff	Phylogenetic Trees and Operads
11/4/2016	Ivan Tulli	Intro to Hamiltonian Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics
11/11/2016	Yixian Wu	Elliptic Curves and Its Application in Integer Factorization
11/18/2016	Shalin Pareleh	Scaling Limits of Random Curves and Interfaces
11/25/2016	None	THANKSGIVING

Spring 2016

Date	Speaker	Title
1/29/2016	Jonathan Johnson	Summation Chains of Sequences
2/5/2016	Max Riestenberg	Intro to Mapping Class Groups
2/12/2016	Gillian Grindstaff	Semi-Dispersing Billiards
2/19/2016	Andy Ma	Applications of Analysis
2/26/2016	Richard Wong	Topological Data Analysis
3/4/2016	Yanlin Cheng	A Brief Talk About Schrodinger's Equation
3/11/2016	Hannah Turner	Constructions/Decompositions of Some 3-Manifolds
3/18/2016	None	SPRING BREAK!!
3/25/2016	Frank Lin	Ergodic Theory on the Circle
4/1/2016	Tom Oldfield	Applying the Euler-Oldfield Theorem to Property P Groups
4/8/2016	Arun Debray	The Mathematics of Functional Programming
4/15/2016	Ivan Tulli	Intro to Lagrangian Mechanics and Noether's Theorem
4/22/2016	Martin Bobb	Teichmuller Space
4/29/2016	Matt Rosenzweig	Bochner-Riesz Multiplier Conjecture

Fall 2015

Date	Speaker	Title
9/4/2015	Max Riestenberg	Mathematics in Music Theory
9/11/2015	Nick Crispi	Topological Transitivity in Discrete Dynamical Systems
9/18/2015	Richard Wong	Algebraic Struction of the Rubik's Cube
9/25/2015	Jonathan Johnson	Introduction to Game Theory
10/2/2015	Tom Oldfield	Sheaves - How to Glue in Geometry
10/9/2015	Michael Starkey	Quantum Computing and the Deutsch Josza Quantum Algorithm
10/16/2015	Jonathan Johnson	More Game Theory
10/23/2015	Isaac Smith	Ultrafilters
10/30/2015	Hannah Turner	An Erdos Conjecture
11/06/2015	Gill Grindstaff	Trees and Tree Covers
11/13/2015	Arun Debray	The Grothendieck Group
11/20/2015	Katie Mount	Life Contingency
12/4/2015	Adrian Clough	Yoneda's Lemma

Spring 2013

Date	Speaker	Title
1/18/2013		Organizational Meeting
1/25/2013	Javier Morales	Calibrated complex structures on the space of Hermitian matrixes 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

Fall 2012

Date	Speaker	Title
9/7/2012	Valentin Zakharevich	Basic Geometric Probability
9/21/2012	Robin Neumayer	Traversing the Pachner Graph
9/28/2012	Allison Miller	Asymptotic Density of Wecken Maps
10/5/2012	Tim Carson	The Homotopy Method for Eigenvales of Symmetric Matrices
10/12/2012	Yaroslav Vergun	Completeness in Riemannian Manifolds
10/19/2012	Michael Wong	The Riemann-Roch Theorem for Compact Riemann Surfaces
10/26/2012	Sara Cohen	Bistellar Equivalences of Two Families of Simplicial Complexes
11/2/2012	Soledad Villar	Dimension of Modular Form Spaces
11/9/2012	Tim Magee	Topological Quantum Field Theories
11/16/2012	Keren Li	The Jones Polynomial: A Magnificent Invariant on Knots and Links
11/30/2012	Rustam Antia-Riedel	An Introduction to Chern-Weil Theory (Maybe)

Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Title
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