Adam Block

I am starting as PhD student, now at MIT studying mathematics.


Writing

Here is a list of notes for various talks I have given:

To Graduate Students

  1. Intersections on Nonsingular Varieties (part of the Graduate Seminar in Intersection Theory in Algebraic Geometry at Columbia, Fall 2018 )

To College Students

  1. Probability and Stochastic Processes (a six part series with problem sets given at PROMYS 2019).

  2. Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group (a three part series given with Roger Van Peski at PROMYS 2018).

  3. Introduction to the Representation Theory of Finite Groups (a quick introduction to my representation theory seminar below).

  4. Introduction to Intersection theory in Algebraic Geometry (a three-part series given at PROMYS 2018).

  5. Symmetric Unimodal Sequences (a two part series on applying representation theory to combinatorics given at PROMYS 2017).

  6. Introduction to Nonsingular Varieties (part of the series on Classical Algebraic Geometry given at PROMYS 2017).

  7. Riemann-Hurwitz and Applications (part of the series on Classical Algebraic Geometry given at PROMYS 2017).

To High School Students

  1. Fermat's Last Theorem for Polynomials (given at PROMYS 2017).

  2. Monsky's Theorem (given at PROMYS 2017).

  3. The Skolem-Mahler-Lech Theorem (a talk given at PROMYS 2017).

Expository Notes

Here is a list of expository notes on some subject, written up for classes with interesting final reading projects.
  1. Artin L-Functions (for a course on Class Field Theory taught by Chao Li )

  2. Riemann-Roch on Surfaces (for a course on Algebraic Geometry taught by Johann Dejong )

  3. Elliptic Curves (for a course on introductory Algebraic Number Theory taught by Chao Li )

Teaching


Seminars