Student AIM Seminar: Non-parametric estimates for graphon mean-field particle systems
Hongyi Zhou
Abstract: We consider the graphon mean-field system introduced in the work of Bayraktar, Chakraborty, and Wu. It is the large-population...
Sumner Myers Colloqium: Parabolic Towers and the Asymptotic Geometry of the Mandelbrot set
Alex Kapiamba
Understanding the geometry of the Mandelbrot set has been a central pillar of holomorphic dynamics over the past four decades. Much of its...
Math Undergraduate Seminar: Bombieri-Vinogradov Theorem
Xun Wang
In this talk, we sketch a proof of the famous Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem and some of the implications.
Student Analysis Seminar: Counting Problems & Wave Kinetic Theory
Katja Vassilev
In this talk, we will learn about Wave Kinetic Theory through the lens of the Cubic Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation. We will begin with an...
Low rank symmetric fusion categories in positive characteristic
Agustina Czenky (Oregon)
In this talk, we look at the classification problem for symmetric fusion categories in positive characteristic. We recall the second Adams...
Learning Seminar in Algebraic Combinatorics: Examples with combinatorial Chow rings
Scott Neville
In this learning seminar, we have been converting questions about face counts of polytopes into questions about the cohomology of toric...
Student CA Seminar - Progress in Big and Small Cohen-Macaulay Modules
Gahl Shemy
Given a Noetherian local ring (R,m), one might ask whether there exists an R-module M and a system of parameters on R which form a regular...
Logic Seminar: Regular categories & Regular logics
Ilia Nekrasov
I will continue our explorations of hyperdoctrines. This time, we will look at regular categories a-la "categories with images" on...
Moduli and 4-Manifold Mapping Class Groups
Sidhanth Raman (UC Irvine)
Thurston revolutionized the study of diffeomorphisms of Riemann surfaces with a myriad of tools: hyperbolic geometry, geometric group...
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: On the scheme structure of arc spaces
Roi Docampo Alvarez (University of Oklahoma)
The arc space of an algebraic variety parametrizes formal germs of smooth curves mapping into the variety. It is an infinite dimensional...
Democratizing or Demoralizing: The Impact of Robinhood on Trading Costs and Volatility
Mehmet Saglam, University of Cincinatti
Order collaring, the automatic conversion of default market orders into limit orders with 5% spread over prior prices, has been utilized at...
IBL Lunch
Come talk about teaching with IBL, interactive, and other active teaching methods over lunch! Bring teaching anecdotes, thoughts, and your...
Fixed points of pseudo-Anosov maps
Samuel Taylor
Let F be a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of a hyperbolic surface S. In this talk, we’ll describe joint work with Tarik Aougab and Dave Futer...
GLNT: Realizable Degree Sets of Superelliptic Curves over Henselian Fields
Alex Wang (University of Washington)
Abstract: Given an algebraic variety, we can capture a snapshot of its arithmetic information via its degree set, roughly given by the...
Commutative Algebra Seminar: Stanley-Reisner Analogues in Mixed Characteristic
Olivia Strahan (UMich)
In mixed characteristic polynomial rings, the behavior of monomials in p, x_1, ..., x_n is closely correlated with the behavior of monomials...
Student Dyn/Geo/Top: Intro to Ergodic Theory
Katia Shchetka
This talk is an introduction to ergodic theory and its fundamental concepts such as ergodicity, mixing, equidistribution, and more. We will...
Differential Equations Seminar: Self-Similar Blow up Profiles for Fluids via Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Javier Gomez Serrano (Brown Univ.)
In this talk I will explain a new numerical framework, employing physics-informed neural networks, to find a smooth self-similar solution...
Graduate Recruitment Weekend
The Mathemaics Department will be hosting prospective Fall 2024 PhD students. There will be a series of lectures and activities on Friday,...
Progress on the sofa problem
Jineon Baek, University of Michigan
Modeling the situation of moving furniture around, the moving sofa problem asks for the maximum area of a planar shape that can move around...
AIM Seminar: Phylodynamics via Markov genealogy processes
Aaron King, University of Michigan and Santa Fe Institute
Abstract: Phylodynamics is the project of extracting information on the drivers of an epidemic from genomic data. A key unsolved...
Multiplier Ideals and Applications
Shend Zhjeqi
We will introduce Multiplier Ideals and we will use them to obtain results about singularities. In particular, we will find an upper bound...
Topology Seminar: High dimensional cohomology of arithmetic groups
Peter Patzt (University of Oklahoma)
Abstract: I will talk about about three results about high dimensional cohomology groups of some arithmetic groups (special linear group,...
Graduate Recruitment Weekend
The Mathemaics Department will be hosting prospective Fall 2024 PhD students. There will be a series of lectures and activities on Friday,...
SUMS Mass Peer Advising Session
Join us for our Mass Peer Advising Session in the upper math atrium for advice on classes, summer opportunities, and more!
p-adic representations and p-adic cohomologies
Gabriel Dospinescu (ENS Lyon)
I will give an introduction to the p-adic Langlands program for GL_2(Q_p), insisting on its geometric realization in the p-adic étale...
On representation theory in the higher Verlinde category Ver_4^+
Serina Hu (MIT)
The higher Verlinde categories Ver_{p^n} were introduced independently by Coulembier and Benson-Etingof-Ostrik as generalizations of Ver_p...
Non-parametric estimations for graphon mean-field particle systems
Hongyi Zhou (UM)
We consider the graphon mean-field system introduced by Bayraktar et al. in Bayraktar, Chakraborty, Wu (AAP 2023)...
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Equivariant Hodge modules and rational singularities
Scott Hiatt (DePauw University)
In this talk, we will define a notion of Hodge modules with rational singularities. A variety has rational singularities in the usual sense,...
Advanced Math in Finance?
Dominic Wydeven
We've all wondered, "When will I use this" while studying higher-level math. The Black-Scholes-Merton model is an advanced...
Topology Seminar: Countable unions of finite groups as hidden symmetries of the free group
Daniel Studenmund (Binghamton University)
Symmetries of a group G are encoded in the automorphism group Aut(G). "Hidden symmetries" are encoded in the abstract...
Speyer's g conjecture and Betti numbers for a pair of matroids
Alex Fink, Queen Mary University of London
In 2009, looking to bound the face vectors of matroid subdivisions and tropical linear spaces, Speyer introduced the g-invariant of a...
ISRMT seminar: Dimers on a Riemann surface and compactified free field
Mikhail Basok (University of Helsinki)
In this talk I will be speaking about the dimer model sampled on a general Riemann surface. In this setup, the dimer height function becomes...
Colloquium Seminar: Braid Varieties
Eugene Gorsky (UC Davis)
I will introduce and discuss a remarkable class of algebraic varieties, called braid varieties. These include all open Richardson and...
Modeling L-function Zeros with Random Matrices
Akash Narayanan
Using infinite series from calculus II as motivation, I will first talk about the Riemann zeta function and introduce some of the major...