The Monroe Martin Talks & Seymour Goldberg Talks make-up a speaking competition. Speakers give 15-minute talks in which they communicate a mathematical idea or method to the general mathematical community. The talks should be aimed at the level of a general mathematical audience (i.e. an audience with some mathematical background, but not consisting of experts in the speaker's field) and should convey an idea worth sharing. Speakers can feel free to discuss their own research, but there is no requirement to do so. The talks will be judged on their content and presentation by a panel of past winners.
2023
Presentation Competition
- Max Auer- When do rare events occur?
- Ethan Dudley- Anomalous Dissipation in Turbulence
- Connor Lockhart- Dividing Lines in Model Theory
- Michael Rozowski- Gradient Flow Interpretations of the Heat Equation
2022
Presentation Competition
- Nakyung (Rachel) Lee- Can we foliate three dimensional manifolds with two dimensional leaves?
- Eliot Lehrer- Intro to Modular Forms
- Stavros Papathanasiou- A stochastic approach to PDEs of parabolic type
- Efstratios Tsoukanis- The Weisfeiler-Lehman Isomorphism Test
2021
Presentation Competition
- Josue Avila Artavia- First case of Fermat's last theorem for regular primes
- Liam Fowl- Witches' Brew: Targeted Data Poisoning via Gradient Alignment
- Nicholas Paskal- How to escape from a well: a tutorial
- Shin Eui Song- One of five fundamental operations of mathematics: modular forms
2020
Presentation Competition
- Zachary Greenberg- Cayley Graphs of Triangles
- Dani Kaufman- ADE Correspondences
- Tahseen Rabbani- Error-Correcting Codes: From Mars to International Trade Court
- Arghya Sadhukhan- Is e^{\pi*\sqrt 163} Even or Odd?
2019
Presentation Competition
- Patrick Daniels- Tannakian Duality for Permutation Representations
- Danul Gunatilleka- 0-1
- Jenny Rustad- Billiards, Translation Surfaces, and Teichmuller Flow
- Sam Bloom- Elliptic curves, Cryptography, and Lang-Trotter Questions
2018
Presentation Competition:
- Ariella Kirsch - Fibonacci Coding
- Jeremiah Emidith - Equiangular Lines and Graph Theory
- Phillip Wertheimer - Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Cryptography
- Alexander Ester - How to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem by Hand
2017
Presentation Competition:
- Sean Ballentine - Locally Recoverable Codes
- Ran Cui - Spectral Analysis of NBA Data
- Micah Goldblum - Baribier's Theorem: A Theorem in Geometric Probability
- Pratima Hebbar - Exponential Limit of a Discrete, Scaled Branching Process
2016
Presentation Competition:
- Summer (Xia) Hu - Using Stat 100 to Design Your Own Google Translator
- Richard Rast - Model Theory and Polynomials
- Jenny Rustad - Topological Dynamics and Van der Waerden's Theorem
- Alexey Stepanov - Emergence of Patterns in Non-Euclidean Plates: Flowers, Leaves, and Plastic Bags
2015
Presentation Competition:
- Matt Begue - Analysis meets Graphs
- Jean-Philippe Burelle - Farey Arithmetic and Geometry
- Alex Cloninger - Invariant Subspace Perturbation or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Eigenvectors
- Mickey Salins - Using Random Functions to Model Deterministic Phenomena
2014
Presentation Competition:
- Travis Andrews - Stumbling on Conjectures: Why You Should(n't) Google Things
- Tyler Drombosky - Fast Boundary Methods with applications in geophysics
- Tim Mercure - How Can the Continuum Hypothesis Possibly be Independent? A Dialogue.
- Zsolt Pajor-Gyulai - On Brownian local time
2013
Presentation Competition:
- Michael Kreisel - An Introduction to Noncommutative Topology
- Scott Schmieding - The Structure of Aperiodic Tilings
- David Shaw - Incremental Subspace Learning for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Using Manifold Optimization
- Srimathy Srinivasan - Algebraic Geometry in Blu-Ray?
Written Competition:
- Alex Cloninger - The Work of Cand’es, Romberg, and Tao in Compressive Sensing
Poster Competition:
- Carolina Franco
- Karl Schmitt
2012
Presentation Competition:
- Madhura Joglekar - A Case of Ever-increasing Toplogical Entropy
- Anne Jorstad - Geodesics for Robust Face Recognition
- Dave Karpuk -Solutions to Equations over Finite Fields
- Guillame Marcais - Jellyfish: A Fast, Lock-free Approach for Efficient Parallel Counting of Occurrences of k-mers
Written Competition:
- Dave Shaw - Regularization Techniques for Analyzing Data on a Manifold
2011
Presentation Competition:
- Edward Clifford -Shifted increasing tableaux
- Will Herring - Applications of operations research models to operating room scheduling
- Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman - Finite state Markov chains and metastable systems
Written Competition:
- James Tanis – E=mc^2
2010
Presentation Competition:
- Ryan Hoban
- Matthew Hoffman
- Russell Halper
- Konstantinos Spiliopoulos
Written Competition:
- Fei Xue
- Bijan Afsari
- Anastasia Voulgaraki
2009
Presentation Competition:
- Enrico Au-Yeung - What is the largest disc that can be covered by a random walk in N steps?
- Fei Xue - Convergence of iterative solvers in inexact Rayleigh Quotient Iteration
- Karl R. B. Schmitt - Chaotic Communication: Crystal Clear and Private
- Carter Price - Graph Theory Applications in Kidney Paired Donation
Written Competition:
- Ben Lauser - Origin of the Radar Ambiguity Function
- Domingo Ruiz - Quaternions and Double Rotations
- Konstantinos Spiliopoulos - On the Reflection of a Particle of Small Mass in a Random Force Field
Poster Competition:
- Ritaja Sur - Analysis of Eye/Arm Movement Data
- J. Scott Olsson - Combining Speech Retrieval Results with Generalized Additive Models
- Nate Strawn - A Direct Method for Designing FUNTF's
2008
Presentation Competition:
- Bin Cheng - On the Long Time Regularity of the Shallow Water Equations
- Fernando Galaz Garcia - Almost Nonpositive Curvature: Decreasing the Diameter Without Increasing the Curvature
- J. Scott Olsson - Searching Spoken Documents: Speech Retrieval Systems
- Chris Shaw - What Are the Strongest Weakly o-Minimal Structures?
Written Competition:
- Juliana Belding - Curves, Cryptography and Primes of the Form x^2 + Dy^2
- Matthew Hoffman - Ocean Instabilities Captured by Breeding
- Hunter Johnson- VC-dimension and Model Theory
- Emily King - The Geometry of Wavelets: Fractal Tilings and Group Representations
2007
Presentation Competition:
- David Bourne
- Susan Schmoyer
- David McClendon
- Miguel Pauletti
Written Competition:
- Fernando Galaz-Garcia
- Chensong Zhang
- Jane Holsapple Long
- Damon Gulczynski, Jeffrey Heath & Carter Price
2006
- Gregory Bard
- John Harlim
- Suzanne Sindi
- Yupei Xiong
2005
- Chris Danforth
- J.T. Halbert
- Cory Hauck
- Brandy Rapatski
2004
- Robert Day
- Daniel Dunlavy
- William Ott
- Blake Pelzer
2003
- Karen Ball
- Alfred Dolich
- Scott Laprise
- Jae-Hong Pyo
2002
- Stephen Devlin
- Takashi Nishikawa
- DJ Patil
- Yvonne Shashoua