We usually meet in the 508 Math at 7:30 and the talk takes place in 520 or 507 nearby.
| September 11 **Thursday** | Joelle Brichard Columbia Grad Student | The Center of the Nilcoxeter and 0-Hecke Algebras (pdf) |
| September 17 **Wednesday** | Aaron Lauda Columbia | Frobenius Algebras and Topological Quantum Field Theory |
| September 24 **Wednesday** | Daniel Whitt Columbia Undergrad | Mathematical Models of Running |
| September 30 **Tuesday** | Tom Peters Columbia Grad Student | The Game of Hex and the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem |
| October 8 **Wednesday** | Alon Levy Columbia Grad Student | Infinite Galois Theory |
| October 16 **Thursday** | Adam Knapp Columbia | 4-Manifolds and the Kirby Calculus |
| October 22 **Wednesday** | Sonja Mapes Columbia Grad Student | An Introduction to Tropical Geometry |
| October 29 **Wednesday** | Rumen Zarev Columbia Grad Student | Open Book Decompositions |
| November 6 **Thursday** | Emily Clader Columbia Undergrad | Modular Forms and Lacunarity |
| November 12 **Wednesday** | Ben Elias Columbia Grad Student | Minimally Faithful Group Actions |
| November 19 **Wednesday** | Atanas Atanasov Columbia Undergrad | Sheaves and Cech Cohomology |
| November 25 **Tuesday** | Alex Perry Columbia Undergrad | Infinite and Transcendental Extensions |
| December 4 **Thursday** | Thibaut Pugin Columbia Grad Student | The Regular Heptadecagon |