Chromatic Homotopy Theory Seminar
Proof of Quillen's theorem.
Following lecture 10 from http://www.math.harvard.edu/~lurie/252x.html. Speaker(s): Yunze Lu (UM)
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The Leech lattice and K3 and Enriques surfaces (after Brandhorst and Shimada)
In 2017, the sphere packing problem in dimension 8 and 24 was solved. The Leech lattice gives the optimal solution in dimension 24. Since...
Student Commutative Algebra Seminar
TBA
Speaker(s): Karthik Ganapathy (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
Colloquium Series Seminar
From counting partitions to the structure of motivic characteristic classes
The 19th century idea of ``Durfee squares’’ produced an effective combinatorial trick to count partitions. (In fact, one of...
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Schubert calculus in equivariant elliptic cohomology
Assigning characteristic classes to singular varieties is an effective way of studying the enumerative properties of the singularities....
Commutative Algebra Seminar
Lyubeznik numbers for Pfaffian rings
Lyubeznik numbers are invariants of local rings defined via compositions of local cohomology functors. I will discuss how techniques from...
Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar
Review of duality in coherent cohomology
Speaker(s): Haoyang Guo (UM)
Differential Equations Seminar
Linear stability of fronts for the ZND detonation profile
(joint works with M. Williams and K. Zumbrun) Speaker(s): Olivier Lafitte (University of Paris 13 and CNRS)
Mathematics Career & Program Fair
The Mathematics Career Conference is open to all undergraduate and graduate students looking to find out more information about mathematics...
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics (AIM) Seminar
When do interacting particles gravitate to the vertices of a regular simplex?
Consider a pressureless gas interacting through an attractive-repulsive potential given as a difference of power laws and normalized so that...
Combinatorics Seminar
Combinatorial and algebraic interpretations of Lucas analogues
The Lucas sequence is a sequence of polynomials in s and t defined recursively by {0}=0, {1}=1, and {n}=s{n-1}+t{n-2} for n greater than 1....
Junior Colloquium Series Seminar
Mathematics and Cyber Security (Invitations to Industry Series)
Two Six Labs (https://www.twosixlabs.com/) is a technology company based out of Arlington, VA, but with remote offices all over the country....
Preprint Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Functorial embedded resolution via weighted blowings up, following Abramovich, Temkin, and Wlodarczyk
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1906.07106 Speaker(s): Rachel Webb (UM)
Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory Seminar
TBA
Speaker(s): Antonio Auffinger (Northwestern University)
Chromatic Homotopy Theory Seminar
Formal Groups, heights, Stratification of M_FG.
Following lectures 11-13 from http://www.math.harvard.edu/~lurie/252x.html. Speaker(s): Attilio Castano (UM)
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Seminar
Optimal Bookmaking
We introduce a general framework for continuous-time betting markets, in which a bookmaker can dynamically control the prices of bets on...
Differential Equations Seminar
TBA
Speaker(s): Beatrice Bonga (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)
Geometry Seminar
Discretely shrinking targets in moduli space
Given a nested decreasing family of targets B_n in a measure space X equipped with a flow phi_t (or transformation), the shrinking target...
Junior Colloquium Series Seminar
Stochastic processes, control problems, and games (Research at Michigan Series)
I will present some basic concepts and tools of the theory of stochastic processes, starting from discrete-time (stochastic) control theory...
Preprint Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Nearby cycles and semipositivity in positive characteristic, following Langer
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1902.05745 Speaker(s): Jakub Witaszek (UM)
Complex Analysis, Dynamics and Geometry Seminar
TBA
Speaker(s): Nicholas McCleerey (Northwestern University)
Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory Seminar
TBA
Speaker(s): Karl Liechty (DePaul University)
Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Characteristic p algebraic geometry
Speaker(s): Swaraj Pande (UM)
