Math Biology Working Group: Topological Data Analysis and Applications for Biology
Dr. Halley Fritze
Topological data analysis (TDA) is a field which combines topology, geometry, statistics, and computer science to answer questions about...
Student Number Theory: What are parahoric subgroups?
Ram Ekstrom
In this talk, we will motivate why the parahoric subgroups of a connected reductive group over a nonarchimedean local field are defined the...
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: From stability conditions to generalized Bogomolov-Gieseker inequalities
Xiaolei Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)
The classical Bogomolov-Gieseker inequality provides a bound on the second Chern character of semistable sheaves, which is an essential...
Student AIM Seminar: Asymptotics of Stokes flow in slightly curved and slender cylindrical channels
Choco Li
Flow through a network of interconnected channels creates ill-conditioned problems due to the multiply connected topology. Boundary integral...
Stochastic Models and Optimization for Dynamic Portfolio Management: A Compartment Framework for Financial Growth and Decision Support
Tirupathi Rao Padi (Pondicherry University)
Portfolio management is a dynamic decision-making problem characterized by uncertainty, evolving asset states, competing risk–return...
Probability and Analysis Seminar: Small Moments of the Sensitivity of Polynomial Threshold Functions
Chun-Kai Tseng
Abstract: Polynomial threshold functions (PTFs) are a central class of Boolean functions with important roles in learning theory and...
DE Seminar: The Guderley Problem: Existence of Self-Similar Shock Solutions
Jiaqi Liu, Umich
Dating back to Guderley’s pioneering work in 1942, the Guderley problem is a classical problem in compressible fluid dynamics describing...
AIM Seminar: How voting goes wrong, and how it can go right: the evolution of collective intelligence
Joshua B. Plotkin (University of Pennsylvania)
Abstract: Voting sometimes works well. A crowd's average guess is often better than any individual guess. But voting can also fail,...
Unexpected torus action on toric Richardson varieties
Soyeon Kim (UC Davis)
This talk focuses on Richardson varieties in the complete flag variety, which are intersections of a Schubert variety with an opposite...
How mathematics can contribute to AI safety research
Jacob Tsimerman
Contrary to most modern mathematics, the field of AI safety sits on less well-developed theoretical foundations, and as such can feel more...
Long time asymptotics of the generalized soliton gas for the mKdV equation
Manuela Girotti (Emory University)
We analyze a new class of solutions of the modified KdV equation introduced by Dyachenko, Zakharov, and Zakharov, and which can be...
GLNT: Analytic approaches to factorization of singular moduli
Yingkun Li (Wisconsin)
Abstract: In the 1980s, Gross and Zagier proved factorization formula for norm of difference of singular moduli, on their way to the...
Colloquium: How to achieve quantum advantage?
Lin Lin, Caltech
The development of error-corrected quantum computers raises the prospect of quantum advantages in scientific computation. Which problems are...
Policy Gradient Flow for Stochastic Control
Zhenjie Ren, University of Evry
Reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable success in landmark applications such as AlphaGo and AlphaFold, and is increasingly expected...
Probability and Analysis Seminar: Conformal removability and bubble connectivity of non-simple SLE
Haoyu Liu (PKU/MIT)
Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE_\kappa) is a one-parameter family of random fractal curves arising as scaling limits of interfaces in...
Topology seminar: Tight surgeries on torus knots
Konstantinos Varvarezos (UGA)
Abstract: We give a complete classification of tight contact structures on every surgery along torus knots, which provides the first such...
Zamolodchikov Periodic Cluster Algebras
Ariana Chin (UCLA)
In 2007, Fomin and Zelevinsky introduced the bipartite belt, a sequence of bipartite cluster mutations whose exchange relations form a...
AIM Seminar: Programmable Collective Dynamics in Active Matter and Robot Swarms
Steven Ceron (UM Robotics)
Abstract: Collective systems are able to exhibit complex global dynamics through relatively simple local interactions, and they give us a...
Colloquium: Heat, wave, and Schrödinger dynamics of Gibbs measures
Bjoern Bringmann, Caltech
Gibbs measures were first introduced in statistical mechanics, where they have been used to describe statistical equilibria of physical...
Exploratory Optimal Reinsurance under the Mean-Variance Criterion
Austin Riis-Due, Waterloo
This paper proposes a Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach to the optimal reinsurance problem...
Strongly log-concave measures and lattices
Brayden Letwin
Abstract: Let L be a lattice in R^n. Suppose that L has the property that the determinant of every...
Algebraic Geometry Preprint Seminar: Hodge, Tate, and standard conjectures
James Milne (U. Michigan)
OpenAI recently posted two preprints which have as consequences: the Hodge conjecture for CM abelian varieties, the Tate conjecture for...
AIM Seminar: The Geometry of Diffusion Generation: A Log-Density Ridge Perspective
Ye He (Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder)
Abstract: Diffusion models generate data by gradually transforming noise into structured samples. When these samples differ from the...
STEM Info Sessions
STEM Summer Programs Information Session
October 15, 2026 - 4pm - 5pm / November 9, 2026 - 4pm - 5pm...
AIM Seminar: Title TBA
Oliver Gross (Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego)
Abstract: TBA Contact: Ian Tobasco
ISRMT Seminar: Title TBA
Amol Aggarwal (Stanford University)
Abstract: TBA To request access to the Zoom room, please contact Nathan Hayford at nhayford [ at ] umich.edu
GLNT: Arithmetic intersections on non-split Cartan modular curves
Jonathan Love (UM)
Abstract: Take two CM elliptic curves over a number field, each equipped with a level structure preserved by all endomorphisms. At which...
IBL Lunch
Come talk about teaching with IBL, interactive, and other active teaching methods over lunch. Bring teaching anecdotes, thoughts, and your...
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Stable map resolutions of Richardson varieties
Allen Knutson (Cornell)
Given a circle action S on a projective variety X, we introduce the "stable map quotient" using Kontsevich's space of stable...
A New Approach for the Continuous Time Kyle-Back Strategic Insider Equilibrium Problem
Bixing Qiao, UM
In this talk, we consider a continuous-time Kyle-Back model which is a game between an insider and a market maker. The existing literature...
