Seminar Calendar
January 2026
Monday, January 12th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
New algorithms for the electric grid: the interplay between control, learning and economics
Baosen Zhang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington, Seattle,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Solving PDEs exactly over polynomials
Keaton Burns,
Principal Research Scientist of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT of Mathematics,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Idealistic equivalence relation remastered
Filippo Calderoni,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics Department,
Rutgers University,
Thursday, January 15th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Spectral Reciprocity and Arithmetic Applications
Liyang Yang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Friday, January 16th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Using electronic assessment to test and improve proof comprehension
Juma Zevick Otieno,
Doctoral Researcher,
Department of Mathematics and Earth Sciences,
University of Trieste,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
New linear response formulas with applications to variational data assimilation and generative SDE models
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
First moment obstructions
Huy Tuan Pham,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Rosenberg Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Comeager isomorphism classes in zero-dimensional dynamics
Todor Tsankov,
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The condensed fundamental group of a scheme
Peter Haine,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar
Large-scale consequences of nonnegative Ollivier-Ricci curvature
Tom Hutchcroft,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar
Concavity Properties of Dirichlet Eigenfunctions
Malik Tuerkoen,
UC Irvine,
Saturday, January 24th, 2026
7:00am
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6:00pm
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Monday, January 26th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Resilient Autonomy: Perception and Planning for Dynamic, Unknown Environments
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar (1/2)
Closed-strings mirror symmetry for semiprojective toric manifolds
Filip Zivanovic,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
SUNY Stonybrook,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar (2/2)
The Last Kervaire Invariant Problem
Zhouli Xu,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Graduate Student Seminar
A new bound for the critical point of the FK model for q<1
Tejas Oke,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Hyperfinite partial orders
Patrick Lutz,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
Thursday, January 29th, 2026
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Most regular graphs are Ramanujan
Theo McKenzie,
Stanford Science Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford,
Friday, January 30th, 2026
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar
Smoothly knotted surfaces in small closed 4-manifolds
Dave Auckly,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Kansas State University,