Department of Mathematics Colloquia
2019-2020
| Time | Location | Faculty Colloquium Coordinator |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Thursdays
(unless otherwise stated) |
AP&M 6402
(unless otherwise stated) |
Bo Li (bli@math.ucsd.edu) |
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title and Abstract | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 26 |
Joseph Landsberg
Texas A&M University |
Geometry and the complexity of matrix multiplication
Abstract |
Steven Sam |
| October 3 |
Michael Freedman
Microsoft Research and UC Santa Barbara |
Quantum Computing via Octonions
Abstract |
Bennett Chow |
| October 10 |
TBA
TBA |
Title
Abstract |
TBA |
| October 17 |
Van Vu
Yale University |
Roots of random functions
Abstract |
Jacques Verstraete |
| October 24 |
TBA
TBA |
Title
Abstract |
TBA |
| October 31 |
Kenji Nakanishi
Kyoto University |
Sharp threshold nonlinearity for maximizing the Trudinger-Moser inequality
Abstract |
Jacob Sterbenz and Ioan Bejenaru |
| November 7 |
Shachar Lovett
Computer Sci. Engin., UCSD |
Towards the sunflower conjecture
Abstract |
Andrew Suk |
| November 8 |
Benjamin Bakker
University of Georgia |
Hodge theory and o-minimality
Abstract |
James McKernan |
| November 13 |
Xuwen Zhu
UC Berkeley |
Moduli spaces, uniformization and singularities
Abstract |
Jacob Sterbenz and Ioan Bejenaru |
| November 14 |
Pierre Albin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
The sub-Riemannian limit of a contact manifold
Abstract |
Todd Kemp and Jianfeng Lin |
| November 15 |
Harold Williams
UC Davis |
Geometric representation theory through the lens of physics
Abstract |
James McKernan |
| November 18 |
Oliver Pechenik
University of Michigan |
K-theoretic Schubert Calculus
Abstract |
Brendon Rhoades |
| November 19 |
Xin Sun
Columbia University |
Conformal geometry of random surfaces in 2D quantum gravity
Abstract |
Todd Kemp |
| November 20 |
Semyon Dyatlov
UC Berkeley |
Fractal uncertainty principle and quantum chaos
Abstract |
Peter Ebenfelt and Jacob Sterbenz |
| November 21 (3:00 pm - 4:00 pm) |
Daniel Le
University of Toronto |
Congruences between modular forms
Abstract |
Kiran Kedlaya |
| November 21 |
Felix Krahmer
Technical University of Munich |
On the geometry of polytopes generated by heavy-tailed random vectors
Abstract |
Rayan Saab |
| November 22 |
Ilya Gekhtman
University of Toronto |
Growth rates of invariant random subgroups of Lie groups and hyperbolic groups
Abstract |
Adrian Ioana and Alireza Salehi Golsefidy |
| November 25 (2:00 pm - 3:00 pm) |
Zhouli Xu
MIT |
In and around stable homotopy groups of spheres
Abstract |
James McKernan |
| November 25 |
Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard
University of Maryland |
Wave propagation in inhomogeneous media: An introduction to Generalized Plane Waves
Abstract |
Li-Tien Cheng |
| December 2 |
Christos Mantoulidis
MIT |
Minimal surfaces via the Allen–Cahn equation
Abstract |
Lei Ni |
| December 3 |
Yaniv Romano
Stanford University |
Reliability, Equity, and Reproducibility in Modern Machine Learning
Abstract |
Ery Arias-Castro and Rayan Saab |
| December 4 (12:00 noon - 1:00 pm) |
Veronica Ciocanel
Ohio State University |
Stochastic and continuum dynamics in cellular transport
Abstract |
Li-Tien Cheng |
| December 5 |
Elizabeth H. Simmons
UCSD EVC |
Gender, Equity, Power Structures and Implicit Bias in STEM
Abstract: TBA |
Math Dept & the EDI Committee |
| December 6 |
Yixing Wang
Columbia University |
The Blessings of Multiple Causes
Abstract |
Ery Arias-Castro |
Winter 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title and Abstract | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 9 |
Nathan Broaddus
Ohio State University |
Level structures and images of the Steinberg module for
surfaces with marked points
Abstract |
Jianfeng Lin and Lei Ni |
| January 10 |
Xiaochuan Tian
University of Texas, Austin |
Analysis and computation of nonlocal models
Abstract |
Li-Tien Cheng |
| January 16 |
Marius Junge
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Graphs and sublaplacians from an operator algebra perspective
Abstract |
Adrian Ioana |
| January 23 |
Aaron Pollack
Duke University |
Modular forms on exceptional groups
Abstract |
Kiran Kedlaya |
| January 30 |
TBA
|
Title
Abstract |
TBA |
| February 6 |
Camillo De Lellis
IAS |
Rigidity and flexibility of isometric embeddings
Abstract |
Lei Ni and Luca Spolaor |
| February 13 |
TBA
TBA |
Title
Abstract |
TBA |
| February 20 |
Chao Li
Columbia University |
From sum of two squares to arithmetic Siegel-Weil formula
Abstract |
Benedict Gross |
| February 27 |
TBA
|
Title
Abstract |
TBA |
| March 5 |
Johannes Sjöstrand
Université de Bourgogne |
Title
Abstract |
Peter Ebenfelt |
| March 12 |
Ciprian Demeter
University of Indiana, Bloomington |
Decoupling and applications
Abstract |
Ioan Bejenaru |
| March 13 |
Simon Brendle
Columbia University |
Singularity models for Ricci flow
Abstract |
Bennett Chow and Luca Spolaor |
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title and Abstract | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2 |
Edriss Titi
University of Cambridge and Texas A&M |
Is dispersion a stabilizing or destabilizing mechanism? Landau-damping induced by
fast background flows
Abstract |
Tarek Elgindi |
| April 9 (Postponed) |
Panagiota Daskalopoulos
Columbia University |
Title
Abstract |
Lei Ni |
| April 16 |
TBA
TBA |
Title
Abstract |
TBA |
| April 23
(Joint w/ MAE Ctr. Control Syst. Dyn.) |
Constantine Dafermos
Brown University |
Title
Abstract |
Miroslav Krstic |
| April 30 |
TBA
TBA |
Title
Abstract |
TBA |
| May 7 |
TBA
TBA |
Title
Abstract |
TBA |
| May 14 |
Kasra Rafi
University of Toronto |
Title
Abstract |
Amir Mohammadi |
| May 21 |
TBA
TBA |
Title
Abstract |
TBA |
| May 28 |
TBA
TBA |
Title
Abstract |
TBA |
| June 4 |
TBA
TBA |
Title
Abstract |
TBA |