Seminar: Basic Notions, Summer Term 2015

Organisers: Polona Durcik, Joris Roos, Marc Sauerwein, Catharina Stroppel

The Basic Notions Seminar is organised by students as a BIGS event. The goal is to present topics from all areas of mathematics in an elementary and informal way. The talks should be accessible to a general mathematical audience. Everybody is welcome to attend and/or give a talk.
Coffee, tea and cookies will be served afterwards.

If you would like to give a talk please contact Polona, Joris or Marc.

The seminar will take place Wednesdays 14-16 in room 1.007.

For some inspiration you can take a look at previous instances of this seminar here, here and here.


Date Speaker Topic
15.04.2015 Thomas PoguntkeHasse's Local-Global Principle
22.04.2015 Regula KrapfGödel's Incompleteness Theorems
29.04.2015 Joris RoosThe Bellman Function Technique
06.05.2015 Luis LomeliL-functions and the Langlands Program
No talks.
17.06.2015 Angelo ProfetaAn Overview of Optimal Transport
24.06.2015 Arik WilbertIllustrated Guide to Khovanov Homology, part I
01.07.2015 Arik WilbertIllustrated Guide to Khovanov Homology, part II
08.07.2015 No talk (cancelled).