Current Talks

This semester (Spring 25), the talks take place every Wednesday at 18:15 in the main building HG ETH, room TBA.

Date	Speaker	Title
05.03.	TBA	TBA
12.03.	TBA	TBA
19.03.	TBA	TBA
26.03.	TBA	TBA
02.04.	TBA	TBA
09.04.	TBA	TBA
16.04.	TBA	TBA
23.04.	TBA	TBA
30.04.	TBA	TBA
07.05.	TBA	TBA

Past Talks

Date	Speaker	Title
08/10	Noel Friedrich	Oops, I accidentally made a Bitcoin Miner (How Bitcoin works)
15/10	Advait Dhingra	Studying the building blocks of nature in the Large Hadron Collider
22/10	Nils Assmus	Why your Rolex is crap - Frequency Metrology in the 21st Century
05/11	Luis Wirth	Lean4 and the Curry-Howard Isomorphism: The Deep Connection Between Logic and Programming Through Type Theory
12/11	Sergey Ermakov	Magnetic Reconnection - From basic plasma physics to novel computational methods
19/11	Giovanni Giorgis	Optimal Function Approximation with Deep Neural Networks: A Mathematical Perspective
26/11	Aparna Jeyakumar	A Leisurely Introduction to Simplicial Sets
03/12	Anna Bickel	Applying Physics to Medicine - Standardized Structure Naming: The Holy Grail of Radiation Therapy
10/12	Andrea Piccirilli	Deformation Quantization
17/12	Yannis Müller	What's the volume of an emoji, and… can I integrate that?

How to Give a Talk

Some useful information on how to give a talk:

• Keep it at most 30 minutes long!
• You can assume that the people listening to you have passed the Basisjahr, but we recommend still explaining as much as possible of the main concepts you are going to use in the talk. A good trade-off is always to ask people in the audience if they are familiar with the specific notions you are about to present, or to ask what they study and how far along they are in their studies. This way, you get a feeling for your crowd, and the audience also gets involved.
• Do not focus on technical details (Is this proof really necessary to go over for people to understand what the theorem tells us?)
• Try to tell a story to catch people’s interest. You can also ask during the talk if people are still with you.
• Try to make it understandable for as many people as possible. Do you think someone will want to talk about the topic after the talk if they did not understand it?
• Last but not least, have fun and enjoy the stage!

I want to Give a Talk

Send us an email at clroth(at)ethz.ch with the following information:

1. Your full name and the talk name
2. Which department you are in and whether you are a bachelor’s or master’s student
3. A short abstract of the talk (a few sentences are enough so that people get the gist of the talk)
4. Preferred date of the talk
5. (If you have an Instagram, you can send us your handle and we will link it)

If you don't know all the details yet, that's fine! You can just send us an email with the title and submit the abstract later.

About

ZUCCMAP is an acronym for Zurich Undergraduate Colloquium in Computational Science, Mathematics And Physics and is part of VMP (Verein der Mathematik-, Physik- und RW-Studierenden an der ETH).

We provide a platform for students to give informal, short talks on any topic of their choice within the realm of Mathematics, Physics and Computational Science —for instance, presenting their bachelor's or master’s thesis themes or just any other topic that sparks their interest. Although the topics of the talks are within these specific areas, everybody from ETH is welcome. The atmosphere during the talks is relaxed, with snacks and an apéro.

Current ZUCCMAP Committee (Spring 25)

• Marlo Clara Roth - president
• Raphael Caixeta - co-organizer
• Daniel Nádraský - co-organizer
• Ian Wasser (GitHub) (Web Design)

If you are a motivated student and want to make ZUCCMAP even greater by becoming part of the committee, send Marlo an email to clroth(at)ethz.ch .

You can follow us on Instagram to stay up to date.

And don't forget to have a look at our Youtube channel with all the talks.