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The AMS Student Chapter Seminar is an informal, graduate student-run seminar on a wide range of mathematical topics. Pastries (usually donuts) will be provided.
The AMS Student Chapter Seminar (aka Donut Seminar) is an informal, graduate student seminar on a wide range of mathematical topics. The goal of the seminar is to promote community building and give graduate students an opportunity to communicate fun, accessible math to their peers in a stress-free (but not sugar-free) environment. Pastries (usually donuts) will be provided.


* '''When:''' Wednesdays, 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
* '''When:''' Thursdays 4:00-4:30pm
* '''Where:''' Van Vleck, 9th floor lounge (unless otherwise announced)
* '''Where:''' Van Vleck, 9th floor lounge (unless otherwise announced)
* '''Organizers:''' [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~hast/ Daniel Hast], [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian], Cullen McDonald, [https://www.math.wisc.edu/~zcharles/ Zachary Charles]
* '''Organizers:''' Ivan Aidun, Alex Bonat, Kaiyi Huang, Ethan Schondorf


Everyone is welcome to give a talk. To sign up, please contact one of the organizers with a title and abstract. Talks are 30 minutes long and should avoid assuming significant mathematical background beyond first-year graduate courses.
Everyone is welcome to give a talk. To sign up, please contact one of the organizers with a title and abstract. Talks are 25 minutes long and should avoid assuming significant mathematical background beyond first-year graduate courses.


The schedule of talks from past semesters can be found [[AMS Student Chapter Seminar, previous semesters|here]].
The schedule of talks from past semesters can be found [[AMS Student Chapter Seminar, previous semesters|here]].


== Spring 2017 ==
== Fall 2025 ==


=== January 25, Brandon Alberts ===
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Title: Ultraproducts - they aren't just for logicians
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Abstract: If any of you have attended a logic talk (or one of Ivan's donut seminar talks) you may have learned about ultraproducts as a weird way to mash sets together to get bigger sets in a nice way. Something particularly useful to set theorists, but maybe not so obviously useful to the rest of us. I will give an accessible introduction to ultraproducts and motivate their use in other areas of mathematics.
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=== February 1, Megan Maguire ===
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Title: Hyperbolic crochet workshop
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Abstract: TBA
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=== February 8, Cullen McDonald ===
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | September 11
=== February 15, Paul Tveite ===
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Title: Fun with Hamel Bases!
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Abstract: If we view the real numbers as a vector field over the rationals, then of course they have a basis (assuming the AOC). This is called a Hamel basis and allows us to do some cool things. Among other things, we will define two periodic functions that sum to the identity function.
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=== February 22, Wil Cocke ===
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Title: Practical Graph Isomorphism
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | September 25
Abstract: Some graphs are different and some graphs are the same. Sometimes graphs differ only in name. When you give me a graph, you've picked an order. But, is it the same graph across every border?
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=== March 1, Megan Maguire ===
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=== March 7, TBA ===
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=== March 15, Zachary Charles ===
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Title: Netflix Problem and Chill
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | October 9
Abstract: How are machine learning, matrix analysis, and Napoleon Dynamite related? Come find out!
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=== March 29, TBA ===
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=== April 5, TBA ===
| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | October 16
 
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=== April 12, TBA ===
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=== April 19, TBA ===
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | October 23
=== April 26, TBA ===
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=== May 3, TBA ===
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | October 30
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | November 6
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | November 13
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | November 20
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | November 27
| bgcolor="#C6D46E" | THANKSGIVING
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE" | NONE
| bgcolor="#BCE2FE" | NONE
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| bgcolor="#E0E0E0" | December 4
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Latest revision as of 20:33, 25 August 2025

The AMS Student Chapter Seminar (aka Donut Seminar) is an informal, graduate student seminar on a wide range of mathematical topics. The goal of the seminar is to promote community building and give graduate students an opportunity to communicate fun, accessible math to their peers in a stress-free (but not sugar-free) environment. Pastries (usually donuts) will be provided.

  • When: Thursdays 4:00-4:30pm
  • Where: Van Vleck, 9th floor lounge (unless otherwise announced)
  • Organizers: Ivan Aidun, Alex Bonat, Kaiyi Huang, Ethan Schondorf

Everyone is welcome to give a talk. To sign up, please contact one of the organizers with a title and abstract. Talks are 25 minutes long and should avoid assuming significant mathematical background beyond first-year graduate courses.

The schedule of talks from past semesters can be found here.

Fall 2025

Date Speaker Title Abstract
September 4 - - -
September 11 - - -
September 18 - - -
September 25 - - -
October 2 - - -
October 9 - - -
October 16 - - -
October 23 - - -
October 30 - - -
November 6 - - -
November 13 - - -
November 20 - - -
November 27 THANKSGIVING NONE NONE
December 4 - - -
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