Seminar Calendar
April 2025
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Virasoro and triplet vertex algebras at positive rational central charge
Robert McRae,
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CDS Seminar
Nonparametric Analysis and Control of Dynamical Systems: Stability, Safety and Policy Improvement
Enrique Mallada,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Non-archimedean periods for log Calabi-Yau surfaces
Soham Karwa,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quantum K Rings of Partial Flags, Coulomb Branches, and the Bethe Ansatz
Irit Huq-Kuruvilla,
Department of Mathematics,
Virginia Tech,
Friday, April 4th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing
Alex Smolin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The L^2 Alexander torsion for 3-manifolds and sutured manifold theory
Jianru Duan,
School of Mathematical Sciences,
Peking University,
Monday, April 7th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching: Flipping Math 6b
Catherine Babecki,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Gradient flows for sampling and their deterministic interacting particle approximations
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Simplicial complexes, stellar moves, projective amalgamation, and set theory
Sławomir Solecki,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Counting Maps to Hypersurfaces in Grassmannians
Shubham Sinha,
Department of Mathematics,
ICTP,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
A moduli theoretic approach to heights on stacks
Dori Bejleri,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Interplay of Vertex and Edge Dynamics for Dense Random Graphs
Frank den Hollander,
Department of Mathematics,
Leiden University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Murmurations from functional equations
Alex Cowan,
Pure Mathematics,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Random cluster models on random graphs
Remco van der Hofstad,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Eindhoven University of Technology,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Large deviations for the giant in spatial random graphs
Joost Jorritsma,
Department of Statistics,
Magdalen College, University of Oxford,
Friday, April 11th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Bordered algebras and the wrapped Fukaya category
Isabella Khan,
Forbes College,
Princeton University,
Monday, April 14th, 2025
4:00pm
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
12:00pm
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Thursday, April 17th, 2025
2:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Moduli spaces of curves with polynomial point count
Hannah Larson,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Gram Matrices for Isotropic Vectors
Bernd Sturmfels,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On p-adic L-functions for GL(N)
Mladen Dimitrov,
Department of Mathematics,
Université de Lille,
Friday, April 18th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Structural Rationality, Strategic Reasoning, and Equilibrium
Marciano Siniscalchi,
Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Tight contact structures on Seifert fibrations
Hyunki Min,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
Monday, April 21st, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching: Giving and receiving feedback
Clara Seo,
Chemistry Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
The Mechanism Behind the Implicit Biases of Large Learning Rates: Edge of Stability, Balancing, and Catapult
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Graphings of Arithmetical Equivalence Relations
Tyler Arant,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An "efficient" classical algorithm for some 3-manifold TQFT invariants
Colleen Delaney,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Purdue University,
Thursday, April 24th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Uniform bounds for degrees of maps from curves to hyperbolic varieties
Jackson Morrow,
Mathematics Department,
University of North Texas,
Friday, April 25th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Positive scalar curvature on trivial and nontrivial circle bundles
Aditya Kumar,
Department of Mathematics,
John Hopkins University,
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Finite quotients of 3-manifold groups
Melanie Matchett Wood,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Continuity and strictness of measurable cocycles
Christian Rosendal,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Maryland-College Park,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Kinematic varieties for massless particles
Svala Sverrisdóttir,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,