Colloquia

Upcoming Events

$Sébastien Bubeck$

Recent advances in LLMs for Mathematics

Sébastien Bubeck, OpenAI

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

PCAR 192

$Julia Pevtsova$

TBA

Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington

April 10 2026, 3:30 - 4:30pm

ECE 125

$Stephanie Dick$

TBA

Stephanie Dick, Simon Fraser University

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] Yuval Peres, Principal Researcher and Theory Group Manager at Microsoft Research - Fri, May 17 2013
[Video] S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan from New York University's Courant Institute - Fri, May 10 2013
[Video] Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Data Scientist at Johnson Research Labs - Wed, Mar 20 2013
[Video] Gerald Folland from University of Washington - Fri, Feb 22 2013
Exotic spheres and topological modular forms (Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Mon, Feb 4 2013
[Video] Thomas Rothvoss from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Fri, Feb 1 2013
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy from Cornell University - Tue, Jan 29 2013
Katya Krupchyk from University of Helsinki - Mon, Jan 28 2013
[Video] Fredrik Viklund from Columbia University - Fri, Jan 25 2013
Reinier Bröker from Brown University - Tue, Jan 22 2013
[Video] Mathias Drton from UW Statistics Department - Fri, Jan 18 2013
[Video] Max Warshauer from Texas State University - Fri, Nov 16 2012
[Video] Matthew Kahle from Ohio State University - Fri, Oct 5 2012
[Video] Bruce Reznick from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Fri, May 18 2012
[Video] Christopher Hacon from University of Utah - Fri, Apr 6 2012
[Video] Jonathan Brundan from University of Oregon - Fri, Mar 9 2012
[Video] Edward Witten from Institute for Advanced Study - Fri, Feb 17 2012
[Video] Kristin Lauter from Microsoft Research and University of Washington - Fri, Jan 13 2012
[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