• Mo 03/01 10:40-11:45am, Logistics
• We 03/03 10:40-11:45am, Scheduling; no further meetings till May
• MWF 10:40-11:45am, Presentations (starting in May)

Instructor: Viktor Ginzburg
Email:  ginzburg(at)ucsc.edu; when writing to the instructor include "senior seminar" in the email subject
Office: McHenry 4124
Office Hours: We 10:40-11:45pm (till 05/15; exception: 04/10, 11:30-12:30), We: 11:45-12:45 after 05/15, or by appointment

I strongly recommend that you see me at least once before your talk, so we can go over the material and see if changes need to be made. You should have an outline ready and see me early enough so that you have time to make necessary changes.

Course description:

• In the Senior Seminar you will give a 30 min talk about a Mathematics related topic. By the end of the quarter (Fr, June 7) you have to submit an (at least) 10 page thesis about this topic. It is required that you submit a hardcopy of the thesis.
• The topic you choose has to be approved by the instructor (e.g., by email) by the end of the third week to make sure it is suitable and not already taken by someone else.
• The talk can be given either on the black board or with a computer. In the latter case, you are responsible to get the necessary adapters from the department and set all the hardware up in advance.
• The thesis needs to be typed or legibly hand-written. It is recommended that you type your thesis using LaTeX.

Suggested topics:       PDF file

Presentation schedule:

• 05/15: Montenegro - On Conditional Convergence of Series: Riemann's Theorem on the Rearrangements of Terms; Raizes - Frobenius Coin Problem
  
• 05/17: Gray - P vs. NP; Sandefer - Prime Number Theorem
  
• 05/20: Tolmachoff - A Topic from Mathematical Finance; Zhang - Root Locus In Feedback Control Systems
  
• 05/22: Barrera - Euler's Formula for Polyhedra and Platonic Bodies; Chen - Kinetic Proofreading: Mathematical Modeling of Promoter Chromatin Dynamics
  
• 05/24: Leu - Minimum Spanning Algorithms, Hamiltonian Paths and Circuits; Vivian - Spectral Theory
  
• 05/27: Holiday (Memorial Day)
  
• 05/29: Brown - De Rham Complex; Rojas - "0"
  
• 05/31: Childers - Graph Theory and Neural Networks; King - Fast Fourier Transform
  
• 06/03: Li - Perceptron Algorithm and Convergence Theorem, Noel - Solvable Groups
  
• 06/05: Chowdhury - Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, Xu - TBA
  
• 06/07: TBA
  

Papers due: Friday, June 7

Enrollment questions and permission codes: All enrollment questions are to be settled by Monday 01/01 (4:00 pm). The instructor does not give permission codes. Upon the instructor's approval, to obtain a permission code contact mathadvising@ucsc.edu. You may also consider using Mathematics student enrollment request form; consult the Math Department Advising Web Page for further information.