Seminar Calendar
February 2025
Monday, February 3rd, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversation about Math Teaching
Chris Towse,
Math Department,
Scripps College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Exotic aspherical 4-manifolds
Danny Ruberman,
Department of Mathematics,
Brandeis University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Irreducible 4-manifolds can admit exotic diffeomorphisms
Hokuto Konno,
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Tokyo,
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
10:00am
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11:30am
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"Innovative Pedagogy in Computer Science: Candidate Series"
An Intro to Linked Lists and Hopes for the Future
Ryan Tsang,
Postdoctoral Candidate,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, Davis,
Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Sigma Scattered Linear Orderings
William Chan,
Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Geometry,
Vienna University of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Extremal black hole formation as a critical phenomenon
Ryan Unger,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
Thursday, February 6th, 2025
10:00am
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11:30am
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"Innovative Pedagogy in Computer Science: Candidate Series"
Introduction to Linked Lists; Supporting Students with Automated Feedback
Ethan Ordentlich,
Lecturer in Computer Science Department,
Computer Science,
University of Chicago, Illinois,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The Doubly Periodic Aztec Diamond Dimer Model: Gaussian Free Field and Discrete Gaussians
Matthew Nicoletti,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The Poisson boundary of hyperbolic groups without moment conditions
Kunal Chawla,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Bethe Ansatz for PushASEP on the ring
Axel Saenz Rodriguez,
Department of Mathematics,
Oregon State University,
Friday, February 7th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Annular links and categorified invariants
Fraser Binns,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Σ12 -completeness results in Borel combinatorics via gadget reductions
Alex Kastner,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Cycles on the moduli space of abelian varieties
Dragos Oprea,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
CY3 Wall-Crossing using Virtual Classes
Felix Thimm,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Tori with discrete group actions in arithmetic
Peter Xu,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
Friday, February 14th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Embedded Minimal Tori in the Three Sphere
Xingzhe Li,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Derivative-free Bayesian Inversion using Multiscale Dynamics: Weak convergence and Invariant Distribution
Antonin Della Noce,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Applied Mathematics,
Matherials, INRIA and CERMICS ENPC,
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Locally checkable labeling problems in the Borel hierarchy
Felix Weilacher,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, February 20th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Monodromy results for abelian surfaces and K3 surfaces with bad reduction
Tejasi Bhatnager,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin - Madison,
Friday, February 21st, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Knot Detection Results in RP^3
Hongjian Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
Monday, February 24th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching
Jasmine Bryant, Director,
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Learning in the space of probability measures
Caroline Moosmueller,
Assistant Professor and J. Burton Linker Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Mean field limits for Consensus-Based Optimization and Sampling
Urbain Vaes,
Researcher (Inria Starting Faculty Position) /Lecturer in Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Inria Paris / NYU Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Renormalization, semiconvexity, and applications
Roland Bauerschmidt,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
From Design to Disclosure
S. Nageeb Ali,
Professor of Economics,
Penn State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Canonicity of the Shift
Zoltán Vidnyánszky,
Institute of Mathematics,
Eötvös Loránd University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Electrical networks and Lagrangian Grassmannians
Terrence George,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
Thursday, February 27th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special CMX Lunch Seminar
Where do all the scores come from? – generation accuracy of diffusion model, and multimodal sampling via denoising annealing
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
A hyperbolicity conjecture for adjoint bundles
Wern Yeong,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Remodeling Conjecture with descendants
Song Yu,
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
Friday, February 28th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Dynamic (In)Consistency, Revelation Principle, and Full Surplus Extraction
Mengxi Zhang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Bonn,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Einstein metrics on even-dimensional spheres
Jan Nienhaus,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,