Nathan
Kaplan
Seminars and Conferences
I am currently one of the organizers of the UC Irvine Number Theory
Seminar. Here
is a link to our upcoming and recent talks .
I am an organizer of the Southern California Number Theory Day at UC
Irvine conference series. Here are links to some SCNTD
websites from previous years:
SCNTD 2025
SCNTD 2024
SCNTD 2023
SCNTD 2022
Webpages from
Earlier Years
I was an organizer for the Southern California Discrete Mathematics
Symposium in April 2025. Here is the conference webpage: SoCalDM2025
I was an organizer for the Conference on Open
Questions in Cryptography and Number Theory in honor of
Alice Silverberg's 60th Birthday. The conference took place at UC
Irvine September 17-21, 2018.
In 2013-14 I helped organize the Yale Number Theory Seminar. In Fall
2014 and Spring 2015 I helped organize the Yale Algebra and Number
Theory Seminar. I also helped to organize the Algebraic and Tropical
Geometry meeting BATMOBYLE in Fall 2014 and Spring 2015.
Undergraduate Research
I would highly encourage undergraduates to apply for summer
research programs. Here are a few programs that I am familiar with
and would definitely recommend.
If you are a current UCI undergraduate looking for opportunities to
do research on campus, check out the UROP website.
UCI has several programs to promote diversity in research on campus.
SURF
is a program where non-UCI undegraduates spend the summer doing
research at UCI. The Competitive
Edge summer program is for incoming UCI graduate students
looking to get an early start on research.
If you have questions about any of these programs feel free to send
me an email.
Outreach
I am also interested in other types of mathematical outreach. In
July 2022 I gave a talk in the Math Encounters series at
the Museum
of Mathematics in New York City: Error-Correcting
Codes: The Mathematics of Communication. For the
slides that accompany this talk, click here.
I have given a talk in the Math Mornings program at Yale:
Points,
Lines & Puzzles.
I have given talks at the UCI Math Circle,
the Southern California State MathCounts competition, the Hunter
College High School Science Research Seminar, the UCI Anteater
Mathematics Club, the Yale
Undergraduate Math Society, the Family Fridays program at
the Museum of Mathematics,
and at a math circle on Long Island. I have given several talks
for undergraduate math clubs and REU groups and was a plenary
speaker at the Undergraduate
Mathematics Symposium at UIC in 2018.
In graduate school I taught a 10-hour minicourse called A Mathematical Look at Some Popular
Games. In this course we explored some of the math behind
Tic-Tac-Toe, Sudoku, SET, and several other games.
Trivia
I really enjoy trivia and have appeared on five game shows. In
November of 2009 I appeared on Who
Wants to be a Millionaire, in Septeber of 2013 I was on The Million Second Quiz, in May
of 2015 I was on Let's Ask
America, in May 2016 I was on 500 Questions, and in July 2019 I was on Jeopardy. Yale News wrote an article
about my adventures in the game show universe.
My favorite numbers are 20,213, (π^2)/6, and 52,416,000.