Previous KTH/SU Graduate Student Seminars

Fall 2015

11/9

KTH

Eric Larsson

Can you see the geometry of a lens?

25/9

SU

Lisa Nicklasson

The Hilbert series of some pseudo-generic ideals

2/10

KTH

Nima Amini

The probabilistic method

9/10

SU

Johan Lindberg

Equivariant sheaves and models of first-order theories

23/10

SU

Christian Espíndola and Alessandro Oneto

Christer Lech: a memorial lecture

6/11

SU

Andrea Serio

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space, an application in system identification

13/11

KTH

Gohar Aleksanyan

Optimal switching problem

Spring 2015

16/1

SU

Gleb Nenashev

On Heawood-type problem for maps with tangencies

23/1

KTH

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-- No seminar due to licentiate thesis defense --

30/1

SU

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-- No seminar --

6/2

KTH

Aron Wennman

Circle packings and Riemann mappings

13/2

SU

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-- No seminar --

20/2

KTH

Anders Lundman

Computing the volume of polytopes

27/2

SU

Gleb Nenashev

Chip-firing game, Sandpile module and rotor-router models

6/3

KTH

Thomas Ohlson Timoudas

Dynamical rigidity of circle homeomorphisms (and diffeomorphisms)

13/3

SU

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-- No seminar due to pi day activities --

20/3

KTH

Magnus Carlson

The factorial function (!)

27/3

SU

Felix Wierstra

Deformation Quantization

3/4

KTH

--

-- Good friday - no seminar --

17/4

SU

Håkon Gylterud

Multisets

24/4

KTH

Simon Larson

A geometric uncertainty principle

1/5

SU

--

-- First of May - no seminar --

8/5

KTH

Erik Duse

Equilibrium measures in meromorphic potential fields

15/5

SU

--

-- Klämdag - no seminar --

22/5

KTH

Martina Scolamiero

Invariants for Multidimensional Persistence

Fall 2014

12/9

KTH

Katharina Radermacher

Robertson-Walker spacetimes and the Big Bang

19/9

SU

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-- No seminar --

26/9

KTH

Douglas Lundholm

Quantum cosmology and the Big Bounce?

3/10

SU

Mitja Nedić

Purisubharmonic and q-convex functions

10/10

KTH

Mariusz Hynek

Reducible vs irreducible quantization

17/10

SU

Jacopo Emmenegger

A weak factorization system between type theory and homotopy theory

24/10

KTH

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-- No seminar due to thesis defense --

31/10

SU

Oliver Krüger

A playful introduction to Maker-Breaker games

7/11

KTH

Andreas Minne

Counterexamples in Mathematics

14/11

SU

Gabriele Balletti

Connectivity of pseudomanifolds graphs through bounds for the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity

21/11

KTH

Ashraful Kadir

Error Estimation and Adaptive Methods for Molecular Dynamics

28/11

SU

Christian Espindola

Optimal strategies for coordinated inference

5/12

KTH

Afshin Goodarzi

On the Face Numbers of Simplicial Complexes

12/12

SU

Stefano Marseglia

Newton Polygons of Abelian Varieties and Jacobian of curves

Spring 2014

31/1

KTH

Gustav Sædén Ståhl

Varieties and schemes

7/2

SU

Christian Espíndola

An elementary proof of Marden's theorem

14/2

KTH

Joel Andersson

Selected topics on the weighted Radon transform

21/2

SU

Jared Ongaro

Hurwitz spaces and Hurwitz numbers

28/2

KTH

Gaultier Lambert

Eigenvalues of Haar distributed matrices

7/3

SU

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-- No seminar --

14/3

KTH

André Carlzon Laestadius

Hohenberg-Kohn Theorems in the Presence of Magnetic Field

21/3

SU

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-- No seminar --

28/3

KTH

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-- No seminar due to thesis defense --

4/4

SU

Felix Wierstra

Discrete Morse Theory

11/4

KTH

Davit Karagulyan

Faber–Schauder and Franklin systems

18/4

SU

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-- Good Friday - no seminar --

25/4

KTH

--

-- No seminar due to thesis defense --

2/5

SU

--

-- Klämdag - no seminar --

9/5

KTH

Fabian Portmann

The ionization conjecture in quantum mechanics

16/5

SU

Iara Goncalves

Perverse sheaves: not really sheaves, not exactly perverse

23/5

KTH

--

-- Abelsymposium - no seminar --

Fall 2013

20/9

SU

Felix Wierstra

Vassiliev's method of studying the space of knots

4/10

SU

Stefano Marseglia

Super-multiplicativity of ideal norms in number fields

18/10

SU

Rune Suhr

On the 4 dimensional naturally reductive homogeneous Riemannian manifolds

1/11

SU

Jens Forsgård

What is a hyperfield, and why is it interesting?

15/11

SU

Ketil Tveiten

Monodromy

22/11

KTH

Eric Hall

Richardson extrapolation and finite difference schemes for SPDEs

29/11

SU

Per Alexandersson

Snakes in a tableau

6/12

KTH

Anders Lundman

Rubik's Platonic solids

13/12

SU

Olof Bergvall

Modular forms, huh? What are they good for?

Spring 2013

25/1

KTH

Ali Hamdi

PDE-regularization for pricing high-dimensional Bermudan options with Monte Carlo

8/2

KTH

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--- no seminar ---

15/2

SU

Jens Forsgård

Hadamard regularisation

22/2

KTH

Frédéric Gaunard

A few words on Interpolation problems in spaces of analytic functions and related topics

1/3

SU

Christian Espindola

How to predict the future with the axiom of choice

8/3

KTH

Dan Petersen

Hopf algebras

15/3

SU

Ivan Martino

Ekedahl invariants for Finite Groups

22/3

KTH

Gustav Sædén Ståhl

Representable functors, universal properties and the Yoneda embedding

29/3

SU

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--- Good friday - no seminar ---

5/4

KTH

Gaultier Lambert

What are Schramm Loewner Evolutions?

12/4

SU

Sarah Alsaadi

Some versions of the four functions theorem

19/4

KTH

Thorbjörn Gudmundsson

What is stochastic simulation?

26/4

SU

Håkon Gylterud

All functions on the real numbers are continuous.

3/5

KTH

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10/5

SU

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--- klämmdag - no seminar ---

17/5

KTH

Mirkó Visontai

Graph assembly or how to organize a party

24/5

SU

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--- Abelsymposium - no seminar ---

31/5

KTH

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--- thesis defense - no seminar ---

7/6

SU

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--- klämmdag - no seminar ---

14/6

KTH

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--- Gustafsson lectures - no seminar ---

Fall 2012

14/9

SU

Per Alexandersson

Skew Schur polynomials from stretched SSYT:s satisfy a linear recurrence A

21/9

KTH

Erik Aas

Core Partitions

28/9

SU

Olof Bergvall

Integral lattices and discriminant forms

5/10

KTH

Pierre Nyquist

Empirical processes and the Central Limit Theorem

12/10

SU

Kaj Börjeson

Knots and the Jones Polynomial

19/10

KTH

Samuel Holmin

What is... nonstandard analysis?

26/10

SU

Alessandro Oneto

Waring's Problem: Secant varieties and defectiveness

2/11

KTH

Gaultier Lambert

What is... Brownian motion?

9/11

SU

Elin Ottergren

Multiplier sequences for generalized Laguerre bases

16/11

KTH

Joakim Roos

Concepts in potential theory: equilibrium measures, balayage and quadrature domains

23/11

SU

Inna Malysheva

The C-invariant of tangles

30/11

KTH

Tove Odland

On the relationship between quasi-Newton methods and the conjugate gradient method when minimizing a quadratic function

7/12

SU

Christoph Neuner

Shift-invariant linear relations on the Hardy space H^2

14/12

KTH

Mariusz Hynek

On some interesting properties of the spinorial representations of so(N)

Spring 2012

27/1

KTH

Martin Strömqvist

What is uniform distribution mod 1?

3/2

SU

Håkon Robbestad Gylterud

Symmetric Containers

10/2

KTH

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--- No seminar due to SMC Kollokvium ---

17/2 10.15

SU

Christine Jost

From degree and genus to characteristic classes

24/2

KTH

Bruno Benedetti

Constructing manifolds from their simplices

9/3

SU

Christian Espíndola

Complete theories and their applications

16/3

KTH

Pankaj Vishe

The Zeta function and Prime number theorem

23/3

KTH

Antti Haimi

Random Normal Matrices

30/3

SU

Per Alexandersson

untitled seminar on Mathematica

6/4

KTH

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--- No seminar due to public holiday ---

13/4

SU

Daniel Bergh

Intersection theory and enumerative geometry

20/4

KTH

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--- No seminar due to licentiate thesis defence ---

27/4

SU

Afshin Goodarzi

On the Hilbert Series of Monomial Ideals

4/5

KTH

Anders Lundman

Torus embeddings from lattice points and polytopes

25/5

SU

Theo Backman

Associative algebras up to homotopy

1/6

KTH

Sebastian Öberg

Large categories and the problems of categorical homotopy theory

Fall 2011

23/9

KTH

Christopher Svedberg

Cartan geometry

30/9

SU

Ivan Martino

Beyond Parametrization of Algebraic Varieties by means of Global Optimization

7/10

KTH

Andreas Minne

What is a... Free boundary problem?

14/10

SU

Ibrahim Nonkane

Affine completeness of module of rank 1 over a Principal Ideal Domain

26/10

KTH

Mikael Fallgren

Optimization of Joint Cell, Channel and Power Allocation in Wireless Communication Networks

4/11

KTH

Dan Petersen

Quadratic differentials and triangulations of moduli spaces

11/11

SU

Elin Ottergren

Multiplier sequences

18/11

KTH

Fabian Portmann

Symmetries in quantum mechanics

25/11

SU

Olof Bergvall

TBA

5/12

KTH

Erik Duse

Introduction to Soliton Theory and Its Connections to Elliptic Curves

Spring 2011

14/1

KTH

Patrik Norén

What is a graph limit?

28/1

KTH

Joel Andersson

An introduction to public-key cryptography and a recent example when it is done wrong

11/2 15.15

KTH

Anthony Metcalfe

Determinantal structure and universal asymptotic behaviour of interlaced particle configurations in random matrix theory

25/2 15.30

KTH

Erik Aas

Aperiodic tilings

11/3

KTH

Benjamin Young

Introduction to perfect matchings on Aztec Diamonds

17/3 13.15

SU

Ketil Tveiten

Spectral Sequences for Dummies

25/3

KTH

André Laestadius Carlzon

The Hartree-Fock approximation in quantum physics/chemistry

29/3 13.15

SU

Ivan Martino

An Evolutionary Optimization Algorithm

8/4

KTH

Avetik Arakelyan

Consistent difference schemes for second order PDEs

14/4 13.15

SU

Jens Forsgård

What is an A-hypergeometric function

28/4 13.15

SU

Per Alexandersson

An elementary introduction to Mathematica and its Applications

6/5

KTH

Samuel Holmin

A mean value theorem in the geometry of numbers

12/5 13.15

SU

Elin Gawell

A very brief introduction to quivers and path algebras

13/5

KTH

Alexander Engström

How to get a postdoc in the US

20/5

KTH

Jonathan Barmak

Visibility of points in the plane

Fall 2010

9/9

KTH

Nicola Pagani

How many rational curves in the plane pass through n given points?

24/9

KTH

André Laestadius Carlzon

A non-sharp lower bound for Coulomb energies

1/10

SU

Qimh Xantcha

Polynomial Maps

8/10

KTH

David Rydh

p-adic analysis and geometry

15/10

SU

Ketil Tveiten

Deformation of vector bundles with holomorphic connection

22/10

KTH

Andreas Minne

How to differentiate in metric spaces

29/10 14.15

SU

Daniel Bergh

Sample Computations in The Grothendieck Group of Stacks

5/11

KTH

Martin Strömkvist

The Dirichlet problem in perforated domains

Spring 2010

22/1

KTH

Dan Petersen

What is ... a modular form?

5/2

KTH

Kathrin Vorwerk

Topics in topological combinatorics II: Non-embedabbility

19/2

KTH

Alan Sola

What is ... a Levy process?

5/3

KTH

Fabian Portmann

Stability of quantum mechanical systems

12/3

KTH

Avetik Arakelyan

Probabilistic growth models and their limiting shapes

19/3

KTH

Antti Haimi

What is ... the Ahlfors map?

26/3

KTH

Christopher Svedberg

What is ... General Relativity?

16/4

KTH

Joel Andersson

What is ... the Fourier Projection-Slice Theorem?

14/5

KTH

Dan Petersen

Grothendieck topologies and generalized spaces

2009

4/9

KTH

Michael Björklund

The Lindenstrauss Maximal Inequality

18/9

KTH

Alan Sola

Potential theory & Julia sets

2/10

KTH

Douglas Lundholm

Spectral theory of the Weighted Supermembrane Toy Model

16/10

KTH

David Eklund

Classification of integral bilinear forms

13/11

KTH

Oscar Andersson Forsman

A crash course on symmetry methods for differential equations

11/12

KTH

Kathrin Vorwerk

Topics in topological combinatorics I:
Combinatorial fixed point theorems

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