Seminar Calendar
November 2025
Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Pattern Formation in Soft Mechanics
Ousmane Kodio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
A Lie-Algebraic Perspective on Tree-Adjoining Grammars
Elizabeth Xiao,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Asymptotics for the Toda Lattice
Amol Aggarwal,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Rokhlin's lemma for infinite measure preserving bijections
François Le Maître,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Burgundy Institute of Mathematics (IMB),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
r(3,k) in two bites
Dylan King,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An introduction to quantum image encryption
Claire Levaillant,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Thursday, November 6th, 2025
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quantum Schubert Calculus from lattice models
Leonardo Mihalcea,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Wall crossing for moduli of stable pairs
Fanjun Meng,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Scaling limit of the half-space KPZ equation
Christian Serio,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Affine Schubert varieties are splinters
Robert Cass,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Claremont McKenna College,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Locality of Epidemics on Graphs
Yeganeh Alimohammadi,
Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
TBA
Christopher Hoffman,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
Friday, November 7th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Singularities of Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangian Surfaces
Filippo Gaia,
SNSF Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
Monday, November 10th, 2025
7:30am
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11/11
4:00pm
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3:55pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations About Math Teaching
Tynan Ochse,
Curriculum Director,
Art of Problem Solving,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Stein-Log-Sobolev inequalities for the continuous Stein variational gradient descent method
Jose Carrillo,
Professor of the Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,
Mathematical Institute,
University of Oxford,
Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Automated Conjecturing and Discovery in Mathematics
Randy Davila,
Lecturer,
Department of Computational Applied Mathematics & Operations Research,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Where can free waves concentrate?
Ruixiang Zhang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - Berkeley,
Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Minimal Subdynamics: Descriptive ideas about Dynamical Questions
Josh Frisch,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - San Diego,
Thursday, November 13th, 2025
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Matrix points on varieties
Yifan Wei,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
UW-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Hodge-theoretic open/closed correspondence and integral structures
Song Yu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Yan Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Local and global biases of modular forms
Kimball Martin,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Osaka Metropolitan University and University of Oklahoma,
Friday, November 14th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Beck-Fiala and Komlós Bounds Beyond Banaszczyk
Haotian Jiang,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department,
University of Chicago,
Monday, November 17th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Data driven dynamical closure of partial differential equations
Chris Vales,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Mathematics,
Dartmouth College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Can quantum invariants read the geometry of a knot?
Lara San Martinez Suarez,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
From Optimal Transport to Collective Intelligence: Lifelong and Agentic Reinforcement Learning via Task Embeddings
Eva Liu,
Ph.D. student,
Machine Intelligence and Neural Technologies,
Vanderbilt University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Yang-Mills, probability, and stochastic PDE
Sky Cao,
NSF postdoctoral fellow and C.L.E. Moore Instructor,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The Radon–Nikodym topography of measure-class-preserving equivalence relations
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Rotationally symmetric plabic graphs and the Lagrangian Grassmannian
Olha Shevchenko,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
Thursday, November 20th, 2025
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quantum Invariants and Fiberedness
Lara San Martin Suarez,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
The homology of the Hilbert scheme of points in affine space
Jaspreet Singh,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Rings of scalar-valued automorphic forms on certain Deligne–Mostow Shimura varieties
Yuxin Lin,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Friday, November 21st, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Strategically robust game theory via optimal transport
Nicolas Lanzetti,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Non-collapsing of Ricci shrinkers with bounded curvature
Conghan Dong,
Assistant Research Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
Monday, November 24th, 2025
4:00pm
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4:55pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations About Teaching
Jaeden Bardati,
PhD Student,
Department of Physics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charles R. DePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
What is your number? Logic puzzles for mathematicians
Joel David Hamkins,
John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Logic,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Notre Dame,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Bhargava's geometry-of-numbers beyond Davenport's lemma
Artane Siad,
Assistant Professor,
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,