Colloquia

Upcoming Events

$Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University$

Dynamics, Arithmetic, and Wide Spacing of Orbits

Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University

January 16 2026, 3:30 - 4:30pm

ECE 125

$Iván Angiono$

TBA

Iván Angiono, University of Cordoba

January 23 2026, 3:30 - 4:30pm

ECE 125

$Stephanie Dick$

TBA

Stephanie Dick, Simon Fraser University

February 6 2026, 3:30 - 4:30pm

ECE 125

Complex mathematical models of data

Emilie Purvine, Pacific Northwest National Lab

February 20 2026, 3:30 - 4:30pm

ECE 125

Y Math? To prove and verify!

Michael Naehrig, Microsoft

April 3 2026, 3:30 - 4:30pm

ECE-125

AI4Crypto: Machine Learning attacks on Post Quantum Cryptography

Kristin Lauter, Meta

May 1 2026, 3:30 - 4:30pm

ECE 125

$Pavel Etingof$

TBA

Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

November 20 2026, 3:30 - 4:30pm

ECE 125

Past Events

[Video] On the Topology of Black Holes (Greg Galloway, University of Miami) - Tue, Nov 8 2011
[Video] Two Needles in Exponential Haystacks (Joel Spencer, New York University) - Fri, Oct 14 2011
The Static and Stochastic Ising Models (Eyal Lubetzky, Microsoft Research and UW) - Fri, May 20 2011
From Hilbert's 17th Problem to Polynomial Optimization and Convex Algebraic Geometry (Rekha Thomas, University of Washington) - Fri, Apr 29 2011
Testing the Manifold Hypothesis (Hariharan Narayanan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Tue, Mar 29 2011
[Video] The Critical Probability of Percolation: Percolation on Self-Dual Polygon Configurations (Béla Bollobás, University of Cambridge, University of Memphis, and Microsoft ) - Fri, Feb 18 2011
[Video] A Survey of Alternating Permutations (Richard Stanley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Fri, Jan 14 2011
Birational Classification of Algebraic Varieties (Christopher Hacon, University of Utah) - Tue, Nov 23 2010
[Video] Potential Theory Meets Geometric Measure Theory (Tatiana Toro, University of Washington) - Fri, Oct 29 2010
The Geometry of Reimann's Theta Functions (Sebastian Casalaina-Martin, University of Colorado, Boulder) - Fri, Oct 15 2010
[Video] Quasirandom Processes (Jim Propp, University of Massachusetts Lowell) - Fri, May 28 2010
[Video] The Optimization Work of Paul Tseng (Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo, University of Minnesota) - Fri, May 7 2010
[Video] Generalizing the Cross Ratio: The Moduli Space of n Points on the Projective Line Up to Projective Equivalence (Ravi Vakil, Stanford University) - Fri, Apr 30 2010
[Video] Weak Solution Concepts for Nonlinear Elliptic PDE and Associated Regularity (Neil Trudinger, Australian National University) - Fri, Apr 16 2010
[Video] Issues in Multivariate Polynomial Interpolation (Carl de Boor, University of Wisconsin and UW (affiliate) ) - Fri, Feb 5 2010
[Video] Growth Rates and Explosions in Sandpiles (Lionel Levine, M.I.T. and Microsoft Research ) - Fri, Jan 29 2010
[Video] Random Sorting Networks (Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia & Microsoft Research) - Fri, Jan 15 2010
[Video] Cloaking and Transformation Optics (Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington) - Fri, Nov 20 2009
[Video] Character Formulas (Bill Fulton, University of Michigan ) - Fri, Nov 6 2009
Shuffling Cards and Adding Numbers (Persi Diaconis, Stanford University) - Fri, Oct 23 2009