Colloquia and seminars
Colloquia talks are scheduled from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Thursday most weeks. 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.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/29/2026 | Strange subsets of Euclidean space | Bruce Blackadar, University of Nevada, Reno | PE 104 |
| 2/5/2026 | Estimation for generalized Laplace distribution | Andrey Sarantsev, University of Nevada, Reno | PE 104 |
| 2/12/2026 | The Perfect Storm: Persistence and Intensity of Atmospheric Rivers Through the Lens of a Vector Generalized Linear Model | Alexander Weyant, Scripps Institution of Oceanography & UC San Diego | PE 104 |
| 2/19/2026 | Fractional Stochastic Processes: An Overview | Vellaisamy Palaniappan, UC Santa Barbara | PE 104 |
| 2/26/2026 | On the geometry and topology of black holes | Gregory Galloway, University of Miami | PE 104 |
| 3/5/2026 | No Colloquium | ||
| 3/12/2026 | No Colloquium | ||
| 3/19/2026 | No Colloquium | ||
| 3/26/2026 | No Colloquium (Spring Break) | ||
| 4/2/2026 | No Colloquium | ||
| 4/9/2026 | TBA | Emerson Arehart, Peregrine Fund | PE 104 |
| 4/16/2026 | TBA | TBA | PE 104 |
| 4/23/2026 | Second Annual Ilya Zaliapin Memorial Lecture | Yehuda Ben-Zion, USC | PE 104 |
| 4/30/2026 | TBA | Chi-Kwong Li, College of William & Mary | 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.
Homological Algebra Seminar
The Homological Algebra Seminar will be held on Fridays from 2:00-3:30pm in DMSC 315.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/6/2026 | A solution to the differentiation problem for Lie ∞-groups | Chris Rogers, University of Nevada, Reno | DMSC 315 |
| 4/3/2026 | TBA | Yasmeen Baki, Arizona State University | DMSC 315 |
| 4/17/2026 | TBA | Stephen McKean, BYU | DMSC 315 |
Matrix Theory Seminar
The Number Theory Seminar will be held biweekly on Fridays from 4:15-5:15pm PT via Zoom.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/30/2026 | Discrete Prolate Spheroidal Functions, Pascal Matrices, and Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves | Riley Casper, California State University, Fullerton | Zoom |
| 2/13/2026 | Component-wise Accurate Computation of the Square Root of an M-matrix | Jie Meng, Ocean University in China | Zoom |
| 2/27/2026 | TBA | Jyoti Rani, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai | Zoom |
| 3/13/2026 | TBA | Prateek Kumar Vishwakarma, Laval University | Zoom |
| 3/27/2026 | No Seminar (Spring Break) | ||
| 4/3/2026 | TBA | Fengjiao Liu, Florida State University | Zoom |
| 4/17/2026 | TBA | Oliver Pernie, University of Nevada, Reno | Zoom |
| 5/1/2026 | TBA | Khalid Koufany, University of Lorraine | Zoom |
Number Theory Seminar
The Number Theory Seminar will be held in DMSC 315 on Fridays from 9:30-10:30am.
| 1/23/2026 | TBA | TBA | DMSC 315 |
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