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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.

Fall 2024 Colloquium schedule
Date Title Presenter Location
9/12/2024 The Language of Mathematics: The Stories behind the symbols Raul Rojas, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ PE 104
9/19/2024 Advances in physics based simulations using GPUs: A particles perspective Nicolin Govender, University College London and CERN (ATLAS) PE 104
9/26/2024 Optimal Hamiltonian Synthesis for Quantum Computing Moody Chu, North Carolina State University PE 104
10/3/2024 Moments of Dirichlet L-functions via algebraic topology Craig Westerland, University of Minnesota PE 104
10/10/2024 When is a Banach space a Hilbert space? A tour through numerical range Edward Poon, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University PE 104
10/17/2024 A Heegaard-Floer TQFT for link cobordisms Eaman Eftekhary, School of Mathematics, IPM, Iran PE 104
10/24/2024 TBA TBA PE 104
10/31/2024 TBA Jimmie Lawson, LSU PE 104
11/7/2024 TBA Lisa Piccirillo, UT Austin PE 104
11/14/2024 TBA Martina Rovelli, UMass Amherst PE 104
11/21/2024 TBA TBA PE 104
11/28/2024 No Colloquium (Thanksgiving)
12/5/2024 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.

Algebraic & Geometric Topology Seminar

The Algebraic & Geometric Topology Seminar will be held on Fridays from 2:00-3:00pm in DMSC 315.

Fall 2024 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, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ DMSC 315
9/20/2024 Motivic Galois actions and Lie algebras in the derived category: Part 2 Chris Rogers, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ 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, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ DMSC 315
10/4/2024 Structure theorems for braided Hopf algebras Craig Westerland, University of Minnesota DMSC 315
10/11/2024 TBA Jonathan Beardsley, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ DMSC 315
10/18/2024 TBA Dennis Borosov, University of Windsor DMSC 315
10/25/2024 No Seminar (Nevada Day)
11/1/2024 On the stable motivic homotopy category Landon Fox, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ DMSC 315
11/8/2024 Weight Filtrations and Derived Motivic Measures Anubhav Nanavaty, UC Irvine DMSC 315
11/15/2024 TBA Martina Rovelli, UMass, Amherst DMSC 315
11/22/2024 Cyclic homology of C-infinity schemes Chris Solomon, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ 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. 

Fall 2024 Matrix Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Mode
9/6/2024 Spectral properties allowed or required by sign patterns Minerva Catral, Xavier University Zoom
9/20/2024 Zolotarev rational approximation in computational mathematics Heather Wilber, University of Washington Zoom
10/4/2024 TBA Run Zheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Zoom
10/18/2024 TBA Ming-Cheng Tsai, National Taipei Techology University, Taiwan Zoom
11/1/2024 TBA Hongyang Dai , ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Zoom
11/15/2024 TBA Lei Liu, Xidian University, China Zoom
11/29/2024 No Seminar (Thanksgiving)
12/6/2024 TBA Ya-Shu Wang, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan Zoom