Pasha Zusmanovich

"Research seminar" ("Vědecký seminář")

For those students who want to get a credit in the current semester for "Vědecký seminář" (6/7ODS1/2, 6/7VES1/2/3/4, 8VSD1/2/3/4, or whatever other fancy abbreviation it might have).

If you already have a supervisor of your diploma/thesis work, the whole thing can be handled either by your supervisor, or by me. If you do not have a supervisor, it is handled by me. If in doubt, consult with your supervisor first. Below are my requirements for getting a credit.

The requirement is to attend 4 talks in any seminar of your choice, per semester. The seminar can be "real", like the department seminar (currently on hiatus though), or seminar at Fuzzy, or one of the seminars at VŠB, or at any other place in the Czech Republic or the whole world.

Or, as it is customary now in our post-coronavirus world, the seminar can be virtual: browse through researchseminars.org for an impressive list of seminars worldwide, or, say, google for "zoom" (most of the online math seminars are delivered via zoom) + keywords of your choice.

The only requirement is that the talk should be in mathematics (all branches of mathematics, pure and applied, will do), research-level, and "live". Talks in applications, history and philosophy of mathematics, and math education are accepted as long they have a non-trivial mathematical content. Just watching recorded talks of past seminars is usually not ok. In exceptional cases (for example, a high relevance to your diploma work), watching a recorded talk may be acceptable. If in doubt, consult with me first.

Some suggestions of talks which might be (partially) accessible for students without prior research experience (or just can be entertaining):

February 13, 2025 Representation of real numbers by alternating Perron series and its metric equivalence to representation of numbers by positive Perron series
Dynamics and Physics of Cancer
Human Factors in Cryptography
Sums of small fractional parts and a problem of Littlewood
Combinatorial aspects of lattice enumeration
A taste of Ergodic Ramsey theory
Bad reduction of rational maps
New problems in additive number theory
February 14, 2025 Fulminate: Testing CN Separation-Logic Specifications in C
February 18, 2025  The status of mathematics in sixteenth-century Europe
Infinite staircases in ball packing problems
February 19, 2025  Cellular automata: Communication matters
February 20, 2025  Zaremba's conjecture and the circle method
February 21, 2025  On maximal sets of orthogonal roots
February 24, 2025  Perfect powers as sum of consecutive powers
February 25, 2025  Words Avoiding Tangrams
February 27, 2025  Rational-Transcendental Dichotomy Theorems on Power Series with Arithmetic Restrictions
Music of the spheres
March 3, 2025  Refinements of Artin's primitive root conjecture
March 6, 2025  Geometry of osculating curves
Cardinalities of g-difference sets
March 24, 2025  Emmy Noether's theorem
May 1, 2025  Long-term Earth-Moon evolution with high-level orbit and ocean tide models
June 23, 2025  Diagonals of solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation
July 14, 2025  Albert's Problem and its connections

For each particular seminar, read carefully instructions for online access, they vary from seminar to seminar. In case of doubt, do not hesitate to write to the organizer(s).

While attending the talk, try to be not merely a passive listener; try to find a connection with the things you already know and/or interested in, try to formulate question(s) to ask at the end of the talk (as any dutiful member of the audience should do).

On each attended talk, you have to report verbally (5-10 minutes conversation with me; note that this is a change from the previous rules!). For each semester, the deadline is the end of examination period. Do not delay everything till the last moment, and do not report about everything at once, but try to distribute the load over the whole semester.

For any questions, including appointments for reports, please contact me.

Created: Tue Jun 16 2020
Last modified: Thu Feb 13 2025 08:30:41 CET