Upcoming Seminars

Title: Finite Field Fourier Transforms in Arithmetic Statistics
Algebra and Number Theory: Algebra
Speaker: Frank Thorne of University of South Carolina
Contact: Santiago Arango, santiago.arango@emory.edu
Date: 2024-10-08 at 4:00PM
Venue: MSC W303
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Abstract:
In many arithmetic statistics problems, it is useful to evaluate or bound certain Fourier transforms over finite fields. I will give an overview of (1) how these Fourier transforms arise, (2) some strategies that my collaborators and I (and others!) have developed to analyze them, and (3) some surprising structures one finds.\\ \\ Some of this work is older, but I will focus on forthcoming work with Anderson and Bhargava in Bhargava's averaging method, and recently finished work with Ishitsuka, Taniguchi, and Xiao on binary quartic forms.
Title: Reflections and Perspectives: a look back at my teaching journey
Seminar: Teaching
Speaker: Maryam Khaqan (she/her/hers) of Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
Contact: Bree Ettinger, bree.d.ettinger@emory.edu
Date: 2024-11-01 at 10:00AM
Venue: MSC W307C
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Abstract:
As a graduate student at Emory, I taught 6 semesters of Calculus 1 and 2 and one semester of Linear Algebra. I taught independently, as a part of a small loosely coordinated team, and as part of larger, more tightly coordinated teams of instructors with shared assessments and shared syllabi.\\ My teaching journey, just like many of yours, began with MATH590, and since then, I've taught both graduate and undergraduate courses on a small and large scale. Currently, I am a teaching postdoc at the University of Toronto, where I am co-coordinating a team of 3 instructors and 8 TAs as well as teaching my own course with ~140 students.\\ \\ Each new role has brought with itself its own unique challenges, opportunities for growth, and shifts in perspective. In this talk, I will share various stories from my teaching journey with an aim to demonstrate what is "out there" i.e., what kinds of teaching roles a MATH590 student might pursue after Emory and what skills they might learn along the way.