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.

Fall 2025 Colloquium schedule
Date Title Presenter Location
9/4/2025 Financial Simulator Andrey Sarantsev, University of Nevada, Reno PE 104
9/25/2025

Asymptotic Behaviors Associated with Polar and Mostow’s Decomposition

 Tin-Yau Tam, University of Nevada, Reno PE 104
10/2/2025 Modeling Clinicogenomics Data for Progression-Free Survival in Prostate Cancer Ming-Ying Leung, University of Texas, El Paso Zoom
10/9/2025 On Robust Variable Selection for Circular Regression Models Ali Abuzaid, UC Santa Barbara PE 104
10/16/2025 Cutting Triangles Wasin So, San Jose State University PE 104
10/23/2025 Almost Hermitian 4-manifolds with Kahler type curvature Tedi Draghici, Florida International University PE 104
10/30/2025 Prime knots using classical and Floer-theoretic methods Samantha Allen, Duquesne University PE 104
11/6/2025 NPDo Approach for Optimization On the Stiefel Manifold Ren-Cang Li, University of Texas, Arlington PE 104
11/13/2025 Some aspects of Geometry over the field with one element Jaing Jun, SUNY New Paltz PE 104
11/20/2025 Chromatic symmetric functions and related structures Michele Wachs, University of Miami PE 104
11/27/2025 No Colloquium (Thanksgiving)
12/4/2025 Optimal Transport for Non-Commuting Random Variables Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA 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.

Fall 2025 Homological Algebra Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Location
9/19/2025 From Braids to Associators: An Operadic Route to the (genus zero) Kashiwara–Vergne (KV) Solutions Chandan Singh, University of Melbourne, Australia DMSC 315/Zoom
9/26/2025 Formal groups for derived Poisson structures Alex Karapetyan, Northwestern University DMSC 315
10/10/2025 Towards representations of Lie ∞-groups Chris Solomon, University of Nevada, Reno DMSC 315
10/17/2025 Homotopy Theory of L_∞-Modules Jeffrey Nubla, University of Nevada, Reno DMSC 315
10/31/2025 No Seminar (Nevada Day)
11/7/2025 Two formal group structures on the derived loop space Sonja Farr, University of Nevada, Reno DMSC 315
11/14/2025 Proto-exact structure of matroids over idylls Jaiung Jun, SUNY New Paltz DMSC 315
11/21/2025 TBA Landon Fox, University of Nevada, Reno DMSC 315
11/28/2025 No Seminar (Thanksgiving)
12/5/2025 TBA TBA DMSC 315

Matrix Theory Seminar

The Number Theory Seminar will be held biweekly on Fridays from 4:15-5:15pm PT via Zoom. 

Fall 2025 Matrix Theory Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Mode
9/5/2025 On the distance from a matrix to nilpotents Michiya Mori, University of Tokyo, Japan Zoom
9/19/2025 Iterative methods on Stiefel manifolds to reconstruct quantum channels BingZu Lu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Zoom
10/3/2025 Which maps are isometric algebra isomorphisms on Fourier-Stieltjes algebras? Shiho Oi, Niigata University, Japan Zoom
10/17/2025 A scaling and recovering algorithm for the matrix 𝜑-functions Xiaobo Liu, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany Zoom
10/31/2025 No Seminar (Nevada Day)
11/7/2025 Linear Maps Preserving Products of Involutions Tejbir Lohan, IIT Kanpur, India Zoom
11/21/2025 TBA Aedan Jarrod A. Potot, University of Philippines, Diliman, Philippines Zoom
12/5/2025 TBA Iana Fajardo, University of Philippines, Diliman, Philippines Zoom

Number Theory Seminar

The Number Theory Seminar will be held in DMSC 315 on Fridays from 9:30-10:30am. 

Fall 2025 Number Theory Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Mode
10/17/2025 Poissonian pair correlation of the sequence {𝛼n𝜃} modulo 1 Jeremiah Adedoyin, University of Nevada, Reno DMSC 315
10/24/2025 Van der Corput's Method – From Weyl Differencing to Modern Applications in Exponential Sums Jeremiah Adedoyin, University of Nevada, Reno DMSC 315
10/31/2025 TBA TBA DMSC 315
11/7/2025 TBA TBA DMSC 315