Department of Mathematics
University of California, San Diego
Seminars and Colloquia: Week of May 24, 2026 - May 30, 2026
Seminar and Colloquia Abstracts:
Weekly Seminars
Other Abstracts:
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SUNDAY - MAY 24, 2026
No events scheduled for this day.
MONDAY - MAY 25, 2026
No events scheduled for this day.
TUESDAY - MAY 26, 2026
Date - Time:
05/26/2026 - 10:30 AM
Location:
APM 6218 & Zoom (Meeting ID: 8727954252)
Speaker:
Zhichen Zhao - UC San Diego
Title:
Advancement to Candidacy
Math 243: Functional Analysis Seminar
Date - Time:
05/26/2026 - 11:00 AM
Speaker:
Todd Kemp - UC San Diego
Title:
Bias and Division in the Free World
PhD Defense
Date - Time:
05/26/2026 - 01:00 PM
Speaker:
Felipe Castellano-Macias - UC San Diego
Title:
Birational Geometry of Additive Varieties
Thesis Defense
Date - Time:
05/26/2026 - 02:10 PM
Speaker:
Haotian Qu - UC San Diego
Title:
Critical Divisors for Minimal Exponents
Seminar on Mathematics and Machine Learning
Date - Time:
05/26/2026 - 04:00 PM
Speaker:
Professor Melvin Leok - UC San Diego
Title:
The Connections Between Discrete Geometric Mechanics, Information Geometry, Accelerated Optimization and Machine Learning
WEDNESDAY - MAY 27, 2026
Final Defense
Date - Time:
05/27/2026 - 10:00 AM
Location:
Zoom: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/98649803587
Speaker:
Jiyoung Choi - UC San Diego
Title:
Global Optimization of Structured Problems
PhD Defense
Date - Time:
05/27/2026 - 03:30 PM
Speaker:
Shubham Saha - UC San Diego
Title:
Universal moduli stacks of bundles over curves
Math 278C: Optimization and Data Science
Date - Time:
05/27/2026 - 04:00 PM
Location:
Zoom (Meeting ID: 926 5846 1639 ; Password: 278CWN26)
Speaker:
Jaehong Moon - UIUC
Title:
State-Dependent Lyapunov Framework for Rank-1 Matrix Factorization
Math 209: Number Theory Seminar
Date - Time:
05/27/2026 - 04:00 PM
Speaker:
Nikolas Castro - UC San Diego
Title:
The Fargues-Scholze Correspondence over the Semisimple Generic Locus
THURSDAY - MAY 28, 2026
PhD Defense
Date - Time:
05/28/2026 - 11:00 AM
Speaker:
Qihao Ye - UC San Diego
Title:
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations and Stochastic Dynamics with Nonlocal Features
Final Defense
Date - Time:
05/28/2026 - 02:00 PM
Location:
APM B412 & Zoom: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/96120711461
Speaker:
Jordan Benson - UC San Diego
Title:
Tau-Torsion in the C-Motivic Adams Spectral Sequence
Final Defense
Date - Time:
05/28/2026 - 03:30 PM
Location:
Zoom ID 932 0665 2395
Speaker:
Yongyuan Huang - University of California, San Diego
Title:
Computing with Jacobians of Shimura curves: point counts and isogeny decomposition via trace formula and Censuses of low-genus curves over small finite fields
Thesis Defense
Date - Time:
05/28/2026 - 03:00 PM
Location:
APM 6218 and Zoom: https://ucsd.zoom.us/my/mmj002
Speaker:
Maxwell Johnson - UC San Diego
Title:
Synthetic Methods in Stable Homotopy Theory
FRIDAY - MAY 29, 2026
Math 278B: Mathematics of Information, Data, and Signals
Date - Time:
05/29/2026 - 11:00 AM
Speaker:
Henry Pritchard - UC San Diego
Title:
Architectural Guarantees for Convergent Plug-and-Play Proximal Gradient Descent
Final Defense
Date - Time:
05/29/2026 - 03:00 PM
Location:
APM 6218 ; https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/99049199673
Speaker:
Harish Kannan - UC San Diego
Title:
Spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterial colony development
Math 208: Seminar in Algebraic Geometry
Date - Time:
05/29/2026 - 04:00 PM
Speaker:
Prof. Kazuma Shimomoto - Institute of Science Tokyo
Title:
Adic perturbation method in commutative rings
SATURDAY - MAY 30, 2026
No events scheduled for this day.
