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, 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 (you can also google for, say, "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 watchig recoreded 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):

April 17, 2024 Lower bounds in numerical mathematics
April 17, 2024 Knotted surfaces and their profile curves
April 15, 2024 Płonka sums of set-theoretical solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation
April 18, 2024 Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Machine Learning - a Mathematician's view
April 18, 2024 Examples of Enumerative Problems for Arbitrary Fields
April 18, 2024 Necessary and sufficient conditions for directed hypergraphs to be chemical
April 18, 2024 Bounded ratios and badly approximability
April 18, 2024 Certainty or Intelligence: Pick One!
April 18, 2024 Data Science Initiatives in the Grocery Industry
April 19, 2024 Deep Inference for Graphical Theorem Proving
April 23, 2024 Linear algebra over general rings
April 23, 2024 Contrail Climate Impacts: Modeling and Mitigation Strategies
April 23, 2024 On a lower bound of the number of integers in Littlewood's conjecture
April 24, 2024 Regular subdivisions and triangulations
April 25, 2024 Counting with new tools
April 25, 2024 Chemical mass-action systems as analog computers: implementing arithmetic computations at specified speed
April 25, 2024 Musical scales, a never-ending story
April 29, 2024 Non-associative algebras in an associative context
May 8, 2024 The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence
May 8, 2024 Using automata to prove theorems about sequences
May 8, 2024 6-torsion and integral points on quartic surfaces
May 9, 2024 Artificial Intelligence for Mathematics
May 10, 2024 Overcoming the Boundaries of Artificial Intelligence: A Mathematical Approach
May 14, 2024 Estimation of Large Dynamic Precision Matrices with a Latent Semiparametric Structure
May 15, 2024 Iterated integrals and controlled ODEs
May 21, 2024 Approximation of linear subspaces by rational linear subspaces
May 23, 2024 Space: Where Sufficient Reason Isn't Enough
May 30, 2024 Two-mode clustering in a fuzzy setting: methods and cluster validity indices
September 26, 2024 If Planet=Function(Formation), what is the Function() like? How will we learn it?

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 either report verbally (5-10 minutes conversation with me), or present your notes from the seminar (at least 2-3 pages). The written notes should clearly identify your name, the talk you have attended (name of the speaker, title of the talk, name of the seminar, date and place). The notes should be written in English or Czech; if you want to write in other language, please consult with me first. The deadline for the summer semester 2023/2024 is June 15, 2024. Do not delay everything till the last moment, and do not submit all the required reports at once, but try to distribute the load over the whole semester.

Here are examples of high quality notes, taken by Ishrak Hajj Hassan in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021: [1] [2] [3]

For any questions, please contact me.

Created: Tue Jun 16 2020
Last modified: Wed Apr 17 08:35:42 CEST 2024