Student Number Theory Seminar Planning Meeting
Come to our first meeting of the semester (regardless of whether you're interested in giving a talk or not)! We'll discuss...
Student DGT: Hitomezashi Hypersurfaces
Edwin Xie
Hitomezashi, a traditional Japanese stitching technique, has recently attracted mathematical interest for its combinatorial and geometric...
Probability and Analysis Seminar: A Riemann-Hilbert approach to Dyson Brownian motion and Gaussian multiplicative chaos
Nathan Hayford (Umich)
Abstract: The connection between random matrices and Gaussian multiplicative chaos (GMC) has been studied intensively since the work of...
Stability, Approximation, and Robustness of Optimal Policies in POMDPs
Yunus Emre Demirci, UM
In this talk, I will focus on the stability, approximation, and robustness of optimal policies in partially observable Markov decision...
Student AIM Seminar: Planning Meeting
Hope you had a wonderful summer break, and welcome to the new semester! The Student AIM Seminar will be holding a planning meeting on...
Descriptive set theory
Scott Schneider
Research seminar on descriptive set theory. The first several talks will be by Scott Schneider on his work on Borel equivalence relations...
DE Seminar: Mathematical Analysis of Many-Body Quantum Simulation with Coulomb Potentials
Di Fang (Duke)
Efficient simulation of many-body quantum dynamics is central to advances in physics, chemistry, and quantum computing. A fundamental...
Student Algebraic Geometry: Reconstruction Theorems
Ritwick Bhargava
Gabriel's reconstruction theorem states that a noetherian scheme can be fully recovered from its abelian category of quasi-coherent...
Pseudo-magnetism in a strained discrete honeycomb lattice
Xuenan Li (Mathematics, Purdue University)
Abstract: Slowly-varying nonuniform strain in honeycomb media can generate an effective pseudo-magnetic field, even though the underlying...
Type C multiline queues and the open-boundary TASEP
Olya Mandelshtam (Waterloo)
The multispecies TASEP on a circle is a particle model whose partition function is connected to Macdonald polynomials at t=0. Multiline...
Math Grad Show and Tell Seminar: Theoretical Crochet: A crossroads of graph theory, geometry, and cat toys
Renato Pinto Reveggino
In this talk I explain how I got into the hobby, and how I later learned that any crochet pattern can be expressed as a graph. Therefore any...
IBL Lunch
Come talk about teaching with IBL, interactive, and other active teaching methods over lunch. Bring teaching anecdotes, thoughts, and your...
Colloquium: Combinatorics of Quiver Mutations
Scott Neville, University of Oregon
Scott Neville is an RTG postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oregon mathematics department. He completed his PhD at the University...
Learning seminar in algebraic combinatorics: Introduction to solvable lattice models
Rui Xiong
The first meeting of the learning seminar in algebraic combinatorics. Rui will give an introduction and overview of the topic for this...
Probability and Analysis Seminar: Non-abelian Hirota–Miwa Equations for the KPZ Universality Class
C. Alexander Rodriguez (Umich)
Abstract: The KPZ universality class is a broad collection of mathematical and physical models linked through their shared universal scaling...
Optimal Contract, Delegated Investment, and Information Acquisition
Yuyang Zhang, UM
We study a model of delegated investment within a noisy rational expectations equilibrium framework. Portfolio managers can acquire costly...
Descriptive set theory
Scott Schneider
Research seminar on descriptive set theory. The first several talks will be by Scott Schneider on his work on Borel equivalence relations...
Extremal set theory as algebraic geometry
Russ Woodroofe (University of Primorska)
Extremal set theory asks questions such as "what is the largest family of pairwise intersecting k-element subsets of an n-element...
Foundation models and agentic AI for discovery in fluid mechanics
Ricardo Vinuesa (Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan)
Abstract: In this seminar we discuss a unified framework that combines explainable deep learning, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and...
Buying Time: Optimal Service Purchase and Retirement Timing in Defined Benefit Plans
Kristen Moore, UM
We study retirement timing decisions in a defined benefit (DB) pension plan with a service-purchase...
Discrete structure, continuous dynamics: Graph-theoretic approaches and singular parametric limits in biochemical reaction networks
Sabina Haque (Mathematics, University of Michigan)
Abstract: A biochemical reaction network is based on a discrete object: a directed graph whose edges are labeled with reaction rates. At the...
Quantitative propagation of chaos and universality for asymmetric Langevin spin glass dynamics
Manuel Arnese
We obtain quantitative estimates on quenched propagation of chaos for Langevin spin glass dynamics with i.i.d. disorder. Prior work in the...
Robust and Risk-Sensitive Acceleration in Gradient Methods
Mert Gurbuzbalaban, Rutgers
First-order methods such as gradient descent (GD) are foundational in optimization. In unconstrained problems with exact gradients,...
Spectral theory of soliton gases for integrable equations and related problems
Alexander Tovbis (University of Central Florida)
Abstract: Soliton gases for integrable systems is a rapidly developing new area in the theory of nonlinear waves. The spectral theory of...
IBL Lunch
Come talk about teaching with IBL, interactive, and other active teaching methods over lunch. Bring teaching anecdotes, thoughts, and your...
Kullback–Leibler Mirror-Prox for Measure-Valued Variational Inequalities and Mean-Field Equilibria
Ziqing Zhang, UM
We study the computation of static mean-field equilibria on a compact state space by formu-...
