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Colloquia and seminars

Colloquia talks are scheduled from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Thursday each week. Talks will be held either in-person (in PE 104) or occasionally virtually (via Zoom). Speakers give 50-minute presentations on various mathematical and statistical topics.

Fall 2024 Colloquium schedule
Date Title Presenter Location
9/12/2024 The Language of Mathematics: The Stories behind the symbols Raul Rojas, Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ PE 104
9/19/2024 Advances in physics based simulations using GPUs: A particles perspective Nicolin Govender, University College London and CERN (ATLAS) PE 104
9/26/2024 Optimal Hamiltonian Synthesis for Quantum Computing Moody Chu, North Carolina State University PE 104
10/3/2024 Moments of Dirichlet L-functions via algebraic topology Craig Westerland, University of Minnesota PE 104
10/10/2024 When is a Banach space a Hilbert space? A tour through numerical range Edward Poon, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University PE 104
10/17/2024 A Heegaard-Floer TQFT for link cobordisms Eaman Eftekhary, School of Mathematics, IPM, Iran Zoom
10/24/2024 Reflected Stochastic Processes on the Half-Line Andrey Sarantsev, Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ PE 104
10/31/2024 Means (Centroids) on Lie Groups: the Karcher Approach Jimmie Lawson, LSU PE 104
11/7/2024 Exotic phenomena in 4-dimensional topology Lisa Piccirillo, UT Austin PE 104
11/14/2024 Discovering higher categories Martina Rovelli, UMass Amherst PE 104
11/21/2024 Choquet simplexes and classification of C*-algebras Bruce Blackadar, Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ PE 104
11/28/2024 No Colloquium (Thanksgiving)
12/5/2024 A three-pronged approach to using machine learning in pure mathematics Mark Hughes, BYU PE 104

Seminars

The Department also holds regular seminars in various research areas. Speakers include researchers from outside the department, as well as current faculty and graduate students.

Algebraic & Geometric Topology Seminar

The Algebraic & Geometric Topology Seminar will be held on Fridays from 2:00-3:00pm in DMSC 315.

Fall 2024 Algebraic & Geometric Topology Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Location
TBA TBA TBA DMSC 315

Homological Algebra Seminar

The Homological Algebra Seminar will be held on Fridays from 1:00-2:00pm in DMSC 315.

Fall 2024 Homological Algebra Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Location
9/13/2024 Motivic Galois actions and Lie algebras in the derived category: Part 1 Chris Rogers, Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ DMSC 315
9/20/2024 Motivic Galois actions and Lie algebras in the derived category: Part 2 Chris Rogers, Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ DMSC 315
9/27/2024 Examining the action of the motivic Galois group on the fundamental group of the projective line minus three points Sonja Farr, Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ DMSC 315
10/4/2024 Structure theorems for braided Hopf algebras Craig Westerland, University of Minnesota DMSC 315
10/11/2024 Explicit Models for Generalized Algebraic K-Theory of Higher Categories Jonathan Beardsley, Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ DMSC 315
10/18/2024 Derived moduli spaces of Hermitian-Einstein connections Dennis Borisov, University of Windsor DMSC 315
10/25/2024 No Seminar (Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Day)
11/1/2024 On the stable motivic homotopy category Landon Fox, Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ DMSC 315
11/8/2024 Weight Filtrations and Derived Motivic Measures Anubhav Nanavaty, UC Irvine DMSC 315
11/15/2024 From (∞,n)-categories to (∞,∞)-categories Martina Rovelli, UMass, Amherst DMSC 315
11/22/2024 A Simplicial Construction of the de Rham Algebra Chris Solomon, Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ DMSC 315
11/29/2024 No Seminar (Thanksgiving)

Matrix Seminar

The Matrix Seminar will be held in a virtual mode via Zoom bi-weekly on Fridays from 4:15-5:15pm. 

Fall 2024 Matrix Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Mode
9/6/2024 Spectral properties allowed or required by sign patterns Minerva Catral, Xavier University Zoom
9/20/2024 Zolotarev rational approximation in computational mathematics Heather Wilber, University of Washington Zoom
10/4/2024 Linear Maps Preserving Certain Unitarily Invariant Norms of Tensor Products of Matrices Run Zheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Zoom
10/18/2024 Multiplicative trace and spectrum preservers on complex, nonnegative and stochastic matrices Ming-Cheng Tsai, National Taipei Techology University, Taiwan Zoom
11/1/2024 Literature Review on the Permanent Dominance Conjecture Hongyang Dai , Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Zoom
11/15/2024 Lie all-derivable points of triangular algebras Lei Liu, Xidian University, China Zoom
11/29/2024 No Seminar (Thanksgiving)
12/6/2024 Linear maps preserving disjoint idempotents Ya-Shu Wang, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan Zoom