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 TBA TBA 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 TBA 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 TBA Samantha Allen, Duquesne University PE 104
11/6/2025 TBA Ren-Cang Li, University of Texas, Arlington PE 104
11/13/2025 TBA Jaing Jun, SUNY New Paltz PE 104
11/20/2025 TBA Michele Wachs, University of Miami PE 104
11/27/2025 No Colloquium--Thanksgiving
12/4/2025 TBA TBA 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
10/3/2025 TBA Jeffrey Nubla, University of Nevada, Reno DMSC 315
10/10/2025 TBA Chris Solomon, University of Nevada, Reno DMSC 315
10/17/2025 TBA Landon Fox, University of Nevada, Reno DMSC 315
10/24/2025 TBA TBA DMSC 315
10/31/2025 No Seminar--Nevada Day
11/7/2025 TBA TBA DMSC 315
11/14/2025 TBA Jaiung Jun, SUNY New Paltz DMSC 315
11/21/2025 TBA TBA DMSC 315
11/28/2025 No Seminar--Thanksgiving
12/5/2025 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. 

Fall 2025 Matrix Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Mode
9/5/2025 On the distance from a matrix to nilpotents Michiya Mori, University of Tokyo Zoom
9/19/2025 Iterative methods on Stiefel manifolds to reconstruct quantum channels BingZu Lu, National Chung Cheng University Zoom
10/3/2025 TBA Shiho Oi, Niigata University Zoom
10/17/2025 TBA Xiaobo Liu, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems Zoom
10/31/2025 No Seminar (Nevada Day)
11/7/2025 TBA Tejbir Lohan, IIT Kanpur Zoom
11/21/2025 TBA Aedan Jarrod A. Potot, University of Philippines, Diliman Zoom
12/5/2025 TBA Iana Fajardo, University of Philippines, Diliman Zoom