ISRMT Seminar: Roots of polynomials under differential flows, with connections to random matrix theory
Brian Hall (University of Notre Dame)
I will discuss how the roots of polynomials evolve under differential flows, focusing on two main examples: heat flow and repeated...
Student Model Theory Seminar (Invited Address): Categoricity Survey
Professor Andreas Blass
I plan to discuss (without proofs) several topics in model theory more or less related to categoricity, i.e., uniqueness (up to isomorphism)...
Colloquium Lecture: Toward Information Geometric Mechanics
Florian Schaefer (Georgia Tech)
Shock waves in high-speed gas dynamics cause severe numerical difficulties for classical solvers and scientific machine learning. This talk...
Colloquium Seminar: Dynamical algebraic combinatorics and webs
Jessica Striker (NDSU)
Many combinatorial objects with strikingly good enumerative formulae also have remarkable dynamical behavior and underlying algebraic...
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Hodge symmetries of singular varieties
Sung Gi Park (Princeton)
The Hodge diamond of a smooth projective complex variety exhibits fundamental symmetries, arising from Poincaré duality and the purity of...
Probability and Analysis Seminar: A glimpse of universality in critical planar lattice models
Dmitry Krachun (Princeton)
Many models of statistical mechanics are defined on a lattice, yet they describe behaviour of objects in our seemingly isotropic world. It...
Math Declaration Party
Students can meet with a math advisor to declare a major or minor or ask questions.
Uniform-in-time weak propagation of chaos for consensus-based optimization
Hongyi Zhou/UM
We study the uniform-in-time weak propagation of chaos for the consensus-based optimization (CBO) method on a bounded searching domain. We...
Topology Seminar: Eulerian sequences and equivariant Steenrod operations
Prasit Bhattacharya (New Mexico State University)
Abstract: Steenrod operations, which were introduced by Norman Steenrod in 1947, remain one of the most formidable tools in homotopy theory...
Differential Equations Seminar: Strong solutions to the inhomogeneous kinetic wave equation
Ioakeim Ampatzoglou (CUNY Baruch College)
We will talk about global dispersive solutions to the space inhomogeneous kinetic wave equation (KWE) which propagate $L^1_{xv}$ -- moments...
AIM Seminar: Wave Turbulence of Multi-mode Dispersive Systems
Chris DiScenza (University of Michigan)
Abstract: The evolution of infragravity edgewaves in the nearshore provides an interesting wave turbulence problem with multimode...
Pipe dream, pattern, and polytope perspectives on alternating sign matrices and totally symmetric self-complementary plane partitions (Combinatorics Seminar)
Jessica Striker, North Dakota State University
Alternating sign matrices are certain {0,1,-1}-matrices known to be equinumerous with plane partitions in the totally symmetric...
Student Model Theory Seminar
Ilir Ziba
In the Winter 2025 term, the student logic seminar will be a Model Theory reading seminar. Details can be found here:...
ISRMT Seminar: Long-Time Asymptotics of Solutions to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili I Equation
Samir Donmazov (University of Kentucky)
We establish the long-time asymptotics for solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili I (KP I) equation (u_t+6uu_x+u_{xxx})_x = 3 u_{yy} with...
March IBL Lunch
Come talk about teaching with IBL, interactive, and other active teaching methods over lunch. Bring teaching anecdotes, thoughts, and your...
Colloquium Seminar: A remarkable ball quotient, the Monster group, and algebraic geometry
Eduard Looijenga (U. of Chicago)
About 27 years ago Allcock found a ball quotient of dimension 13, which is intriguing for at least two reasons: its expected connections...
Uncertain Games
Melih Iseri/UM
This work provides a unified framework for exploring games. In existing literature, strategies of players are typically assigned scalar...
Preprint Algebraic Geometry Seminar: The D-equivalence conjecture for hyper-Kähler varieties via hyperholomorphic bundles, after Maulik, Shen, Yin, and Zhang
Younghan Bae (UM)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14775
Student Model Theory Seminar
Dhruv Kulshreshtha
In the Winter 2025 term, the student logic seminar will be a Model Theory reading seminar. Details can be found here:...
Colloquium Seminar: Motivic invariants of birational maps
Evgeny Shinder (University of Sheffield)
I will talk about my joint work with Hsueh-Yung Lin, on constructing new homomorphisms from Cremona groups, and more generally groups of...
Comparison theorem for viscosity solutions of HJB equations posed on networks ramified with the nonlinear local-time Kirchhoff's boundary condition.
Isaac Ohavi/ Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In this talk, I present the results of my last paper related to viscosity solutions for HJB equations posed on networks, of second order...
Michigan Lectures in Algebraic Geometry: Gromov's cancellation, motivic invariants and the Grothendieck ring of varieties I
Evgeny Shinder (University of Sheffield)
I explain some cancellation and non-cancellation phenomena in algebraic geometry, such as the Gromov cancellation question: If the open...
Michigan Lectures in Algebraic Geometry: Gromov's cancellation, motivic invariants and the Grothendieck ring of varieties II
Evgeny Shinder (University of Sheffield)
I explain some cancellation and non-cancellation phenomena in algebraic geometry, such as the Gromov cancellation question: If the open...
AIM Seminar: Spectral computations for quasicrystals
Jake Fillman (Texas A&M University)
Abstract: Models of aperiodic order and quasicrystals tend to exhibit very delicate spectral properties, such as Cantor spectrum and...
