Seminar Calendar
May 2025
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Polarized endomorphism of log Calabi-Yau pairs
José Yáñez,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Root recovery for infection processes on trees and graphs
Louigi Addario-Berry,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Enumerative invariants of derived categories
Reginald Anderson,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Claremont McKenna 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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Number Theory Seminar
Smyth's conjecture and a non-deterministic Hasse principle
Jordan Ellenberg,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
TBA
Miklos Racz,
Department of Statistics and Data Science & Department of Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Nearly geodesic surfaces are filling
Xiaolong Hans Han,
Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Fudan University,
Monday, May 5th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching
Matthew Gherman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Stark's Conjectures and Explicit Class Field Theory
Samit Dasgupta,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Forcing and Borel Equivalence Relations
Dima Sinapova,
Mathematics Department,
Rutgers University,
Friday, May 9th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Seminar-Shaping AI for the Public Good via the Berkeley Lab Model
Shaping AI for the Public Good via the Berkeley Lab Model
David Patterson,
Computer Scientist UC Berkeley and Google,
Andy Konwinski,
Co-founder of Laude, Databricks, and Perplexity,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The Dehn twist on a connected sum of two homology tori
Haochen Qiu,
Department of Mathematics,
Brandeis University,
Monday, May 12th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Distortion growth
Assaf Naor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
From distortion growth to isoperimetry, and back again
Assaf Naor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
First examples of categorification of U_{q} (sl_{2}) invariants of 3-manifolds
Sergei Gukov,
Director, Richard N. Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics/Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Measurable 2-factors of regular bipartite graphs
Clinton Conley,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
A mysterious appearance of quantum probability in projective geometry
Jonathan Beardsley,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Random zero sets
Assaf Naor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
A positive dichotomy between Diophantine geometry and frieze patterns
Robin Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 16th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the Horowitz-Myers conjecture
Pei-Ken Hung,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Monday, May 19th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
TBA
Jinghao Cao,
von Karman Instructor in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
A Glimpse into AI + Science at Google DeepMind: RL for Fusion & AlphaGeometry2
Yuri Chervonyi,
Google DeepMind,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions
Joshua Zahl,
Department of Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Reformulations of Furstenberg's x2x3 conjecture
Jane Panangaden,
Mathematics Field Group,
Pitzer College,
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Diophantine problems arising from tetrahedra
Christopher Lyons,
Department of Mathematics,
California State University, Fullerton,
Friday, May 23rd, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
From phase transitions to minimal submanifolds in low codimensions
Davide Parise,
Mathematics Department,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
TBA
Oliver Tse,
Associate Professor,
Applied Analysis group of the Centre for Analysis, Scientific computing and Applications (CASA),
Eindhoven University of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Evolution of Gaussians in the Hellinger-Kantorovich-Boltzmann gradient flow
Oliver Tse,
Associate Professor of the Applied Analysis Group,
the Centre for Analysis Scientific Computing and Applications (CASA),
Eindhoven University of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Legendrian knots and Lagrangian fillings
Honghao Gao,
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering: PhD Thesis Defense
Hierarchical Control: Constructive Theory and Application to Legged Robots
Noel Csomay-Shanklin,
Graduate Student,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Well-posedness for the Schrodinger maps equation with initial data small in a Besov space
Benjamin Dodson,
Department of Mathematics,
Johns Hopkins University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Quantum Black Hole Entropy from a Localization Integral
Matthew Heydeman,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
Friday, May 30th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Rethinking Online Content Ecosystems through the Lens of Computational Economics
Haifeng Xu,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science,
University of Chicago,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the topology of the manifolds with positive intermediate curvature
Xuan Yao,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,