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.

Spring 2025 Colloquium schedule
Date Title Presenter Location
1/30/2025 TBA TBA TBA
2/6/2025 TBA TBA TBA
2/13/2025 TBA TBA TBA
2/20/2025 TBA TBA TBA
2/27/2025 TBA TBA TBA
3/6/2025 TBA TBA TBA
3/13/2025 TBA TBA TBA
3/20/2025 TBA TBA TBA
3/27/2025 No Colloquium (Spring Break)
4/3/2025 TBA Frederic Schoenberg, UCLA PE 104
4/10/2025 Story on multivariate matrix means with a focus on the least squares means Sejong Kim, Chungbuk National University PE 104
4/17/2025 Curvature Inequalities in the Geometry of Submanifolds Bogdan Suceava, CSU Fullerton PE 104
4/24/2025 TBA Jiangguo James Liu, Colorado State University PE 104
5/1/2025 TBA Jianhong Xu, Southern Illinois University 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.

Spring 2025 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, University of Nevada, Reno DMSC 315
9/20/2024 Motivic Galois actions and Lie algebras in the derived category: Part 2 Chris Rogers, University of Nevada, Reno 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, University of Nevada, Reno 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, University of Nevada, Reno DMSC 315
10/18/2024 Derived moduli spaces of Hermitian-Einstein connections Dennis Borisov, University of Windsor DMSC 315
10/25/2024 No Seminar (Nevada Day)
11/1/2024 On the stable motivic homotopy category Landon Fox, University of Nevada, Reno 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, University of Nevada, Reno 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. 

Spring 2025 Matrix Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Mode
1/31/2025 Algebraic Description of GLn-Invariant Variety of Pairs of Matrices and Some of Its Subvarieties  Rustam Turdibaev, New Uzbekistan University Zoom
2/14/2025 TBA Vehbi Paksoy, Nova Southeastern University Zoom
2/28/2025 TBA Jin Ting Lau, University of Malaya Zoom
3/14/2025 TBA Kenneth Rosa, University of the Philippines Diliman Zoom
3/28/2025 No Seminar (Spring Break)
4/4/2025 TBA Mostafa Hayajneh, Yarmouk University Zoom
4/18/2025 TBA Nancy Menzelthe, University of Nevada, Reno Zoom
5/2/2025 TBA Selcuk Koyuncu, University of North Georgia Zoom