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Mathematical Discovery Series<\/h1>\n

ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Mathematical Discovery Series is a new initiative of the Mathematics Department aimed at bringing the excitement of modern day mathematical research directly to the students. Our speakers are some of the most accomplished mathematicians of the 21<\/span>st<\/sup>\u00a0century and they come to ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ to talk about their discoveries in a language that is accessible to undergraduate audience.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our Speakers<\/h1>\n

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2026
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Elon Lindenstrauss
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2025
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Lauren K. Williams
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2024
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Akshay Venkatesh
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2023
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John Hubbard
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2022
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Yitang Zhang
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2026 \u2013 Elon Lindenstrauss<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Multiplication by 2 and multiplication by 3 are really different!<\/h3>\n

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2025 \u2013 Lauren Williams<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Triangulations and Physics<\/h3>\n

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2024 \u2013 Akshay Venkatesh<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Will AI solve all of mathematics?<\/h3>\n

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2023 \u2013 John <\/span>Hubbard<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

The structure of the Mandelbrot set<\/h3>\n

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Here is the video of Prof. John Hubbard’s talk at ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ on October 23, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2022 \u2013 Yitang Zhang<\/span><\/h3>\n

Twin Primes, An Elementary Approach<\/h3>\n

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The first speaker in the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Math Discovery Series was Professor\u00a0Yitang\u00a0Zhang. In 2013 he stunned the mathematical world by proving the best result to date for the Twin Prime Conjecture. The conjecture (still open) states that there exist infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by 2. Weaker versions of it would assert that there exist infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by at most N=4 (so by 2 or by 4), or at most by N=6, etc. The larger the number, the weaker the claim. However, up until now this statement was not known to be true for any number N. In 2013, a completely unknown lecturer from University of New Hampshire (yes,\u00a0Yitang\u00a0Zhang was not a research professor then) made a breakthrough by proving that there exist infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by at most 70,000,000. It\u2019s a big number, but a lot smaller than infinity! He was catapulted to fame and his life story was so incredible that a documentary was made about him \u201cCounting from infinity\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the video of Prof. Yitang Zhang\u2019s talk at ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ on October 19, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

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