The Pure Math colloquium is held roughly every other week during the fall and winter terms. The talks are at 2:30 pm on Mondays in the Math and Computer Building (MC) 5501. Refreshments are served after the talk at 3:30 pm in MC 5501.
2024 colloquia
Monday, November18, 2024
Jon Brundan, University of Oregon
"Classical representation theory via categorification"
Monday, October 21, 2024
Anand Pillay, University of Notre Dame
"Quasirandomness of definable subsets of algebraic groups over finite fields"
Monday, October 7, 2024
Matthew Harrison-Trainor, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Back-and-forth games to characterize countable structures"
Monday, September 30, 2024
Gregory G. Smith, Queen's University
"Sums of Squares and Projective Geometry"
Monday, September 23, 2024
Robert Haslhofer, University of Toronto
"Mean curvature flow through singularities"
Monday, September 16, 2024
Brent Nelson, Michigan State University
"Uniqueness of almost periodic states on hyperfinite factors"
Monday, April 1, 2024
Tianyi Zheng, UC San Diego
"Random walks on self-similar groups and conformal dimension"
Monday, March 25, 2024
Konstantin Tikhomirov, Carnegie Mellon University
"On the width of random polyhedra"
Monday, March 11, 2024
Noah Snyder, Indiana University
"Tensor categories, string diagrams, and the Quantum Exceptional Series"
Monday, February 26, 2024
Alina Stancu, Concordia University
"On the fundamental gap of convex domains in hyperbolic space"
Monday, January 29, 2024
Yvon Verberne, Western University
"Pseudo-Anosov Homeomorphisms"
Monday, January 15, 2024
Sarah Peluse, University of Michigan
"Arithmetic patterns in dense sets"
Note: This talk was part of the Dean's Distinguished Women in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Lecture Series.
Here is an archive of past colloquia.