FYRe (First Year Reading Seminar)
newly-freed grad students share the shenanigans they've been up to (SU 25)
Organizer: Bryan Lu (blu17@uw.edu)
Meetings: Fridays 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM, PDL C401
The FYRe Seminar is a UW student seminar for first-year graduate students to briefly share what they’ve been reading/working on with the rest of their cohort. Older graduate students are welcome to come as well!
For speakers: Talks are short (ideally \(\frac 1e\) of an hour, no more than \(\frac 12\)) and are (hopefully) about topics you’re learning about/working on right now! Having a background in the standard core courses should be sufficient to understand at least half of your talk. Presentations need not be polished nor follow any particular format – this is just an opportunity for us to practice talking about math and share with each other!
Schedule
Week 1 – August 1, 2025
Speaker: Juan José Villamarín Castro
Title: Ricci flow on the disc
Abstract: In this talk we will introduce the basic concepts in order to understand the convergence of the normalized Ricci flow on the disk (with positive scalar curvature) to a metric of constant (positive) curvature and totally geodesic boundary. If time permits, we will discuss in further detail the monotonicity formula of the Perelman’s functionals which is an important step in the proof of the convergence.
Week 2 – August 8, 2025
Speaker: Varun Shah
Title: TBD
Abstract: TBD
Week 3 – August 15, 2025
Speaker: Wolfgang Allred
Title: TBD
Abstract: TBD
Week 4 – August 22, 2025
Speaker: Connor McCausland
Title: TBD
Abstract: TBD