Colloquia

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, 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.