Seminar Calendar
February 2026
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
The (algebraic) geometry of the Mandelbrot set
Laura DeMarco,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The rank problem for complete, separable metric spaces
Asger Törnquist,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Copenhagen,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Resolving the Berger–Coburn Conjecture
Sam Looi,
Taussky-Todd Postdoctoral Scholar Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum (1/3)
A Limit in Law for the Cover Time of Wired Planar Domains
Oren Louidor,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Technion,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum (2/3)
The largest common subtree of two independent random trees
Robin Khanfir,
The largest common subtree of two independent random trees,
Department of Mathematics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
A p-adic approach to exotic Hecke correspondences between Shimura varietie
Jack Sempliner,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum (3/3)
The phase transition in the time-evolving random graphs
Lutz Warnke,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UCSD,
Monday, February 9th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
11:15am
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12:15pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Curve counting, Hodge theory and birational invariants
Shaowu Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
11:30am
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12:30pm
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CMS Special Seminar with Marcello Romano
Dynamics, Guidance & Control of Autonomous Orbital Systems: From Conception to Flight Experimentation
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Flow Maps: Flow-based generative models with lightning-fast inference
Nicholas Boffi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Machine Learning and Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Generalized descriptive set theory at singular cardinals of countable cofinality
Luca Motto Ros,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Turin,
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra & Geometry Seminar
Matroids and the integral Hodge conjecture for abelian varieties
Philip Engel,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,
University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Eisenstein cocycles for imaginary quadratic fields
Romyar Sharifi,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Spectral theory and descriptive combinatorics for Borel pmp graphs
Cecelia Higgins,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
Thursday, February 19th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
A new case of the Harris-Viehmann conjecture
Sandra Nair,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Mathematics,
Colorado State University,
Friday, February 20th, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (1/2)
Widths, Index, Intersection, and Isospectrality
Jared Marx-Kuo,
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Rice University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (2/2)
Min-max constructions in noncompact manifolds
Doug Stryker,
NSF Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Extremal questions on independent sets, colorings, and graph homomorphisms
Jaehyeon Seo,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Yonsei University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Large deviations in random graphs
Wojciech Samotij,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Tel Aviv University,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Manifold classification from a descriptive viewpoint
Jeffrey Bergfalk,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Mathematics,
University of Barcelona,
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra & Geometry Seminar (1/2)
SYZ mirror symmetry for non-Fano Hirzebruch surfaces
Honghao Jing,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra & Geometry Seminar (2/2)
TBD
Alekos Robotis,
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Ordinary primes for GL_2 type abelian varieties
Tian Wang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mathematics,
Concordia University,