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.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/22/2024 | Diophantine approximation on affine subspaces | Jing-Jing Huang, University of Nevada, Reno | PE 104 |
| 2/29/2024 | On Translative Packing Densities in the plane and in space | Yangyang He, University of Nevada, Reno | PE 104 |
| 3/7/2024 | Axiomatization of algebraically closed fields: The optimal approach | Mohsen Aliabadi, UC San Diego | PE 104 |
| 3/14/2024 | No Colloquium | N/A | N/A |
| 3/21/2024 | Hamiltonian flows from string topology | Nick Rozenblyum, University of Toronto & SLMath | PE 104 |
| 3/28/2024 | No Colloquium (Spring Break) | N/A | N/A |
| 4/4/2024 | Khovanov homology and four-manifolds | Ciprian Manolescu, Stanford University | PE 104 |
| 4/11/2024 | Similarity via transversal intersection of manifolds | Zhongshan Li, Georgia State University | PE 104 |
| 4/18/2024 | The Non-Orientable 4-Genus of 11 Crossing Non-Alternating Knots | Megan Fairchild, Louisiana State 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.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | TBA | TBA | DMSC 315 |
C*-Algebras Seminar
The C*-Algebras Seminar will be held on Wednesdays from 10:00am-11:00am in DMSC 315.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | TBA | TBA | DMSC 315 |
Matrix Seminar
The Matrix Seminar will be held in a virtual mode via Zoom bi-weekly on Fridays from 4:15-5:15pm.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/2/2024 | An extremal problem on 0-1 matrices | Zejun Huang, Shenzhen University, China | Zoom |
| 2/16/2024 | Spectral Transformation for the Dense Symmetric Definite Generalized Eigenvalue Problem | Michael Stewart, Georgia State University | Zoom |
| 3/1/2024 | On Nevanlinna theory for meromorphic matrix-valued functions | Soumyashant Nayak, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India | Zoom |
| 3/15/2024 | Topological indices of graphs | Wei Gao, Penn State Abington | Zoom |
| 3/22/2024 | Eigenvector-dependent nonlinear eigenvalue problems and the SCF iteration in data science | Leihong Zhang, Soochow University, China | Zoom |
| 4/5/2024 | TBA | Avleen Kaur, University of British Columbia | Zoom |
| 4/19/2024 | TBA | Mustafa Usta, Cleveland State University | Zoom |
| 5/3/2024 | TBA | Selcuk Koyuncu, University of North Georgia | Zoom |