Colloquia and seminars
Colloquia talks are scheduled from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Thursday most weeks. Talks will be held either in-person (in PE 104) or occasionally virtually (via Zoom). Speakers give 50-minute presentations on various mathematical and statistical topics.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/29/2026 | Strange subsets of Euclidean space | Bruce Blackadar, 夜色视频 | PE 104 |
| 2/5/2026 | Estimation for generalized Laplace distribution | Andrey Sarantsev, 夜色视频 | PE 104 |
| 2/12/2026 | The Perfect Storm: Persistence and Intensity of Atmospheric Rivers Through the Lens of a Vector Generalized Linear Model | Alexander Weyant, Scripps Institution of Oceanography & UC San Diego | PE 104 |
| 2/19/2026 | Fractional Stochastic Processes: An Overview | Vellaisamy Palaniappan, UC Santa Barbara | Zoom |
| 2/26/2026 | On the geometry and topology of black holes | Gregory Galloway, University of Miami | PE 104 |
| 3/26/2026 | No Colloquium (Spring Break) | ||
| 4/9/2026 | Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: From Foraging Theory to Collective Belief (to Conserving Birds) | Emerson Arehart, Peregrine Fund | PE 104 |
| 4/16/2026 | TBA | TBA | PE 104 |
| 4/23/2026 | Second Annual Ilya Zaliapin Memorial Lecture Fundamental contributions of Ilya Zaliapin to statistical seismology and earthquake physics |
Yehuda Ben-Zion, USC | PE 104 |
| 4/30/2026 | Approximation and Optimization Problems in Quantum Information Science | Chi-Kwong Li, College of William & Mary | PE 104 |
Seminars
The Department also holds regular seminars in various research areas. Speakers include researchers from outside the department, as well as current faculty and graduate students.
Homological Algebra Seminar
The Homological Algebra Seminar will be held on Fridays from 2:00-3:30pm in DMSC 315.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/6/2026 | A solution to the differentiation problem for Lie ∞-groups | Chris Rogers, 夜色视频 | DMSC 315 |
| 2/13/2026 | The Bar–Cobar adjunction in higher categories | Sonja Farr, 夜色视频 | DMSC 315 |
| 2/20/2026 | Delooping the trivial geometry | Jonathan Beardsley, 夜色视频 | DMSC 315 |
| 2/27/2026 | Automorphisms of locally gentle algebras | Sara Ford, 夜色视频 | DMSC 315 |
| 3/6/2026 | No Seminar | ||
| 3/13/2026 | Homological Conditions on Locally Gentle Algebras | Sara Ford, 夜色视频 | LME 316 |
| 4/3/2026 | TBA | Yasmeen Baki, Arizona State University | DMSC 315 |
| 4/17/2026 | TBA | Stephen McKean, BYU | DMSC 315 |
| 4/24/2026 | TBA | Nikola Tomic, University of Montpellier | DMSC 315 |
Matrix Theory Seminar
The Number Theory Seminar will be held biweekly on Fridays from 4:15-5:15pm PT via Zoom.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/30/2026 | Discrete Prolate Spheroidal Functions, Pascal Matrices, and Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves | Riley Casper, California State University, Fullerton | Zoom |
| 2/13/2026 | Component-wise Accurate Computation of the Square Root of an M-matrix | Jie Meng, Ocean University in China | Zoom |
| 2/27/2026 | A study of extended q-numerical ranges and related inequalities | Jyoti Rani, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai | Zoom |
| 3/13/2026 | Cholesky Decomposition for Almost All Symmetric Matrices | Prateek Kumar Vishwakarma, Laval University | Zoom |
| 3/27/2026 | No Seminar (Spring Break) | ||
| 4/3/2026 | TBA | Fengjiao Liu, Florida State University | Zoom |
| 4/17/2026 | TBA | Oliver Pernie, 夜色视频 | Zoom |
| 5/1/2026 | TBA | Khalid Koufany, University of Lorraine | Zoom |
Number Theory Seminar
The Number Theory Seminar will be held in DMSC 315 on Tuesdays from 9:45-10:45am.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/9/2026 | Multiplicative diophantine approximation on planar lines with restricted denominators | Lucas Tapia, 夜色视频 | DMSC 315 |
| 2/24/2026 | Inhomogeneous Khintchine for Divergence on Affine Subspaces (part 1) | Lucas Tapia, 夜色视频 | DMSC 315 |
| 3/3/2026 | Inhomogeneous Khintchine for Divergence on Affine Subspaces (part 2) | Lucas Tapia, 夜色视频 | DMSC 315 |
| 3/10/2026 | Diophantine approximation on missing-digit sets (part 1) | Zirui Jiang, 夜色视频 | DMSC 315 |
| 3/17/2026 | Diophantine approximation on missing-digit sets (part 2) | Zirui Jiang, 夜色视频 | DMSC 315 |