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Kirk Main, Let’s Talk IT: HPC Cluster

The High Powered Computing Cluster is a great resource available to all Mathematics staff, faculty, and graduate students. Unfortunately, it is underutilized due to the fairly technical use standards. In…

Undergrads Union Grads Meeting

The UUG program provides free mentoring for undergraduates in the math program here at NC State. We will hold several seminars and panels throughout the semester on subjects such as…

Applying for Graduate Research Fellowships

Speaker:  Seth Sullivant This presentation will explain the ins and outs of applying for graduate research fellowships, with special emphasis on the NSF graduate research fellowship.

Sherry Gong, UCLA, On the Kronheimer-Mrowka concordance invariant

We will talk about Kronheimer and Mrowka’s knot concordance invariant, $s^\sharp$. We compute the invariant for various knots. Our computations reveal some unexpected phenomena, including that $s^\sharp$ differs from Rasmussen's…

Ricky Liu, NC State, RSKy Business

SAS 2102

The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth (RSK) correspondence is an important combinatorial bijection that associates to any permutation a pair of objects called standard Young tableaux. We will describe this correspondence in detail and…