The STICs program (https://stics.umd.edu/) helps students lead their own courses under the guidance of a faculty advisor.

Spring 2019

MATH299CMathematics & Classical Music
Siri Neerchal (facilitator); Niranjan Ramachandran (faculty advisor)

MATH299M Visualization Through Mathematica
Ajeet Gary, Vlad Dobrin, Devanshu Tamot (facilitators); Goldman, William (faculty advisor)

MATH299N The Mathematics of Ramanujan
Aaron Benda, Tanay Wakhare (facilitators); Lawrence Washington (faculty advisor)

MATH299O Algorithms and Probability in Board Games with a Focusof Bridge
Hakan Berk (facilitator); Lawrence Washington (faculty advisor)

MATH299T Homotopy Type Theory
Prinz, Jacob (facilitator); Sarah Yeakel (faculty advisor)

Fall 2018

MATH299C Mathematics & Classical Music
Siri Neerchal (facilitator); Niranjan Ramachandran (faculty advisor)

MATH299M Visualization through Mathematica
Ajeet Gary (facilitator); William Goldman (faculty advisor)

MATH299P Proofs from The Book
Tanay Wakhare, Erik Metz (facilitators); Lawrence Washington (faculty advisor)

Spring 2018

MATH299N The Mathematics of Ramanujan
Tanay Wakhare, Aaron Benda (facilitators); Lawrence Washington (faculty advisor)

Fall 2017

MATH299N Number Theory Seminar
Erik Metz, Tanay Wakhare (facilitators); Lawrence Washington (faculty advisor)

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  • Predictive Science and Deep Learning - A Bright Future or an Odd Couple?

    Speaker: Wolfgang Dahmen (Aachen, University of South Carolina) - https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/mathematics/our_people/directory/dahmen_wolfgang.php

    When: Wed, September 20, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • The optimal paper Moebius band

    Speaker: Richard Schwartz (Brown University) - https://www.math.brown.edu/reschwar/

    When: Fri, September 29, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Riehl (TBA)

    Speaker: Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University) - https://math.jhu.edu/~eriehl/

    When: Fri, October 6, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Categorification and geometry

    Speaker: Lars Hesselholt (Nagoya University) - https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~larsh/

    When: Fri, October 13, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Mathematics Around the Heisenberg Group

    Speaker: Roger Howe (Yale University) - https://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/fft/2023/Speakers/Roger_Howe.html

    When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 3:45pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Decoding Time's Mysteries for Better Predictions

    Speaker: James Howard (Johns Hopkins University) - https://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/fft/2023/Speakers/James_Howard.html

    When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 6:45pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • A tale of two invariants

    Speaker: Paul Feehan (Rutgers) - https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~feehan/

    When: Wed, November 15, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Using logic to study homeomorphism groups

    Speaker: Thomas Koberda (University of Virginia) - https://sites.google.com/view/koberdat

    When: Wed, November 29, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Generative Models for Implicit Distribution Estimation: a Statistical Perspective

    Speaker: Yun Yang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - https://sites.google.com/site/yunyangstat/

    When: Thu, January 25, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Video Imputation and Prediction Methods with Applications in Space Weather

    Speaker: Yang Chen (University of Michigan) - https://yangchenfunstatistics.github.io/yangchen.github.io/

    When: Tue, January 30, 2024 - 4:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Arboreal Galois groups: an introduction

    Speaker: Robert Benedetto (Amherst College) - https://rlbenedetto.people.amherst.edu/

    When: Wed, February 7, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Higher theta series

    Speaker: Zhiwei Yun (MIT) - https://math.mit.edu/~zyun/

    When: Wed, February 28, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Random lattices and their applications in number theory, geometry and statistical mechanics

    Speaker: Jens Marklof (School of Mathematics, University of Bristol) - https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Jens-Marklof-6eb63e14-a018-4833-9cf8-b95272b5a09e/

    When: Fri, March 1, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Svetlana Jitomirskaya (University of California, Berkeley) - https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/svetlana-jitomirskaya

    When: Thu, March 14, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Instantaneous everywhere-blowup of parabolic stochastic PDEs

    Speaker: Davar Khoshnevisan (University of Utah) - http://www.math.utah.edu/~davar/

    When: Wed, April 3, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206