Seminars

Upcoming Events

$Mariel$

The equivariant Ehrhart theory of the permutahedron

Mariel Supina, UC Berkeley
April 21, 2021 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
via Zoom

Spectral Gaps on Riemannian Manifolds

Helton Leal (Bellevue College)
April 21, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98186259649

Epidemics on critical graphs with heavy-tailed degree distribution

David Clancy, UW
April 26, 2021 - 2:30pm to 3:20pm
Zoom

TBD

Sam Roven, University of Washington
April 27, 2021 - 10:00am to 10:55am
Zoom

$Colleen$

An Efficient Algorithm for Deciding the Vanishing of Schubert Polynomial Coefficients

Colleen Robichaux, UIUC
April 28, 2021 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
via Zoom

TBA

Eric Bahuaud (Seattle University)
April 28, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Zoom

TBA

Max Goering, University of Washington
May 4, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Zoom (link will be distributed via email; if you'd like to attend please email Silvia at ghinassi@uw.edu)

TBA

Samantha Fairchild, University of Washington
May 11, 2021 - 1:30am to 3:30am
Zoom (link will be distributed via email; if you'd like to attend please email Silvia at ghinassi@uw.edu)

TBD

Barinder Banwait, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
May 11, 2021 - 10:00am to 10:55am
Zoom

TBD

Margherita Pagano, Leiden
May 25, 2021 - 10:00am to 10:55am
Zoom

TBA

Hong Wang, Institute for Advanced Study
May 25, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Zoom (link will be distributed via email; if you'd like to attend please email Silvia at ghinassi@uw.edu)

TBA

Jiewon Park (Caltech)
May 26, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

TBA

Lara Kassab, Colorado State University
June 1, 2021 - 1:30am to 3:30am
Zoom (link will be distributed via email; if you'd like to attend please email Silvia at ghinassi@uw.edu)

Past Events

Generalized birthday problem for April 19 (Sumit Mukherjee, Columbia Univ.) - April 19, 2021
Teaching and Learning Brown Bag: Emphasizing concepts and geometry in linear algebra without proofs (Patrick Perkins, Rekha Thomas and Bianca Viray) - April 15, 2021
An odd tale of permutation statistics (Angela Carnevale, National University of Ireland, Galway) - April 14, 2021
Length Spectral Rigidity of Flat and Hyperbolic Metrics (Marissa Loving, Georgia Tech) - April 13, 2021
Bertini irreducibility theorems via statistics (Bjorn Poonen, MIT) - April 13, 2021
Abelian Sandpiles and Abelian Networks (Lionel Levine, Cornell) - April 12, 2021
Type cones and products of simplices (Bennet Goeckner, University of Washington) - April 7, 2021
T-singular surfaces of general type (Julie Rana (Lawrence University)) - April 6, 2021
Critical first-passage percolation in two dimensions (Michael Damron, Georgia Tech) - April 5, 2021
An Asymptotic Local-Global Principle for Integral Kleinian Sphere Packings (Edna Jones, Rutgers) - March 30, 2021
Interface pinning and anisotropies arising from periodic homogenization (William Feldman, University of Utah) - March 16, 2021
Counting elliptic curves with prescribed torsion over imaginary quadratic fields (Allechar Serrano Lopez, University of Utah) - March 16, 2021
Career Transitions: Industrial Panel 2021 (Alyson Deines, Henry Kvinge, Kellie MacPhee, Harish Ramadas, ) - March 15, 2021
A structural Szemerédi–Trotter theorem for cartesian products (Adam Sheffer, CUNY) - March 10, 2021
On the regularity of singular sets of minimizers for the Mumford-Shah energy (Silvia Ghinassi (UW)) - March 10, 2021
Elliptic Curves and Moonshine (Maryam Khaqan (Emory)) - March 9, 2021
The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation for SPDEs with variable damping (Sandra Cerrai, University of Maryland, College Park ) - March 8, 2021
Cubes, Codes, and Graphical Designs (Catherine Babecki, University of Washington) - March 3, 2021
Local-global principles for norms (André MacEdo, University of Reading) - March 2, 2021
Counting critical points of Gaussian random functions in high dimensions (Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern University) - March 1, 2021
Singular Hodge theory for combinatorial geometries ( Jacob Matherne, University of Oregon) - February 24, 2021
Euler characteristic of the space of real irreducible multivariate polynomials and binary expansions (Trevor Hyde (Chicago)) - February 23, 2021
The heat kernel on complete manifolds with finitely many nice ends (Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University) - February 22, 2021
A Proof of Grünbaum's Lower Bound Conjecture for general polytopes, and strongly regular CW spheres (Lei Xue, University of Washington) - February 17, 2021
Hessian Estimates for the Lagrangian mean curvature equation (Arunima Bhattacharya (UW)) - February 17, 2021
Geodesic Currents and the Marked Length Spectrum (Noelle Sawyer, Southwestern University) - February 16, 2021
Northcott property for special values of L-functions. (Fabien Pazuki, University of Copenhagen) - February 16, 2021
Decompositions of Ehrhart h*-Polynomials for Rational Polytopes (Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez, University of Kentucky ) - February 10, 2021
Stability of Halphen pencils of index two (Aline Zanardini (UPenn)) - February 9, 2021
Phase Analysis of a Family of Reaction-Diffusion Equations (Davar Khoshnevisan (University of Utah) ) - February 8, 2021
A categorification of the Malvenuto-Reutenauer algebra via a tower of groups (Farid Aliniaeifard, The University of British Columbia) - February 3, 2021
Singularity structures in solutions to the Monge-Ampere equation (Connor Mooney (UC Irvine)) - February 3, 2021
Wall crossing morphisms for moduli of stable pairs (Giovanni Inchiostro (UW)) - February 2, 2021
Asymptotic distribution of traces of singular moduli (Nick Andersen, Brigham Young University) - February 2, 2021
Large deviations for lacunary trigonometric sums (Kavita Ramanan (Brown University)) - February 1, 2021
A Higher-Dimensional Sandpile Map (Alex McDonough, Brown University) - January 27, 2021
Quantitative decompositions of Lipschitz mappings (Raanan Schul, Stony Brook University) - January 26, 2021
Logarithmic Energy of Points on S^2 (Stefan Steinerberger (University of Washington) ) - January 25, 2021
Empty axis-parallel boxes ( Boris Bukh, Carnegie Mellon University) - January 20, 2021
Rational surfaces and locally recoverable codes (Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Rice University) - January 19, 2021
Teaching and Learning Brown Bag: Should we ask or should we tell? (José M. Guzmán, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington) - January 14, 2021
How to divide multiple cakes fairly using topology ( Shira Zerbib, Iowa State University) - January 13, 2021
Uniform bounds for torsion packets on tropical curves (Harry Richman (UW)) - January 12, 2021
Self Organized Criticality (Christopher Hoffman (University of Washington) ) - January 11, 2021
Symmetry Adapted Gram Spectrahedra ( Isabelle Shankar, UC Berkeley) - December 9, 2020
Intersection theory on low-degree Hurwitz spaces (Hannah Larson (Stanford)) - December 8, 2020
Random walks on graphs and hypergraphs: eigenvalues and clustering (Sinan Aksoy) - December 7, 2020
Post-Prelim Chat (Panel Speakers: Silvia Ghinassi, Gaku Liu, and Farbod Shokrieh, Hosted by: Sara Billey) - December 3, 2020
The 1/3–2/3 Conjecture for Coxeter groups (Yibo Gao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - December 2, 2020
On Hölder continuous globally dissipative Euler flows (Hyunju Kwon (IAS)) - December 2, 2020
Boundary unique continuation of Dini domains (Zihui Zhao, University of Chicago) - December 1, 2020
Random matrices, numerical linear algebra and universality (Tom Trogdon, UW AMATH) - November 30, 2020
Finding classical solutions to elliptic PDEs with singular solutions (Ravi Shankar (UW)) - November 25, 2020
Asymptotics of Entropy-Regularized Optimal Transport via Chaos Decomposition (Lang Liu, UW Statistics ) - November 23, 2020
Surviving graduate school in the COVID era (Sara Billey and Tatiana Toro, University of Washington) - November 19, 2020
Cubical Pachner moves and bordisms of immersions (Gaku Liu, University of Washington) - November 18, 2020
Eigenvalues of the Laplacian and min-max for the energy functional. (Mikhail Karpukhin (Caltech)) - November 18, 2020
Brownian bridges on manifolds (Yang Yu, UW Math) - November 16, 2020
Random Walks on the Sphere and Linear Systems of Equations (Stefan Steinerberger, University of Washington) - November 10, 2020
Hochschild cohomology of general twisted tensor products (Pablo Ocal (Texas A&M)) - November 10, 2020
Beta-matrix models and random matrix universality (Raghav Tripathi) - November 9, 2020
Order Polynomial Product Formulas and Poset Dynamics (Sam Hopkins, University of Minnesota) - November 4, 2020
Transcendental Brauer-Manin obstructions on a Calabi-Yau threefold (Isabel Vogt, University of Washington) - November 3, 2020
The Mathematics of Granular Media (Peter Rudzis) - November 2, 2020
The space of monotone paths of a linear program (Jesús A. De Loera, University of California, Davis) - October 28, 2020
Higher direct images of log structure sheaves in positive characteristic (Charles Godfrey (UW)) - October 27, 2020
On the Karlin-McGregor theorem (Shuntao Chen) - October 26, 2020
Session 2 (Jarod Alper / Jayadev Athreya) - October 22, 2020
Polymatroids and finite groups (Ed Swartz, Cornell University) - October 21, 2020
Topological insulators: a mathematical perspective (Alexis Drouot (UW)) - October 21, 2020
The elliptic sieve and Brauer groups (Masahiro Nakahara, University of Washington) - October 20, 2020
A decomposition of Bessel bridges (Joonyong Choi) - October 19, 2020
Cohomology rings of regular nilpotent Hessenberg varieties and hyperplane arrangements (Satoshi Murai, Waseda University) - October 14, 2020
Uhlenbeck compactification as a Bridgeland moduli space (Tuomas Tajakka (UW)) - October 13, 2020
Quantitative concentration inequalities for empirical measures on non-compact spaces (Xiangqiang Meng) - October 12, 2020
Session 1 (Introductions / Isabella Novik) - October 8, 2020
The topological Tverberg problem beyond prime powers (Florian Frick, Carnegie Mellon University) - October 7, 2020
Brill-Noether theory over the Hurwitz space (Isabel Vogt (UW)) - October 6, 2020
Aldous's Brownian excursions, critical random graphs and the multiplicative coalescent. (David Clancy, UW Math) - October 5, 2020
Welcome event for faculty and students in number theory and algebraic geometry - September 21, 2020
Counting tripods on the torus (Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington) - June 17, 2020
Factorization problems in complex reflection groups (Alejandro Morales, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) - June 3, 2020
From Prym-Brill-Noether theory to strata of abelian differentials: a trip through the tropics (Martin Ulirsch (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)) - June 2, 2020
From Riemann surfaces to tropical curves (and back again) (Martin Ulirsch (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)) - June 2, 2020
Ordered set partitions, Garsia-Procesi modules, and rank varieties (Sean Griffin, University of Washington) - May 27, 2020
Cycle type factorizations in $GL_n F_q$ (Graham Gordon, University of Washington) - May 20, 2020
Searching for the impossible Azumaya Algebra (Siddharth Mathur, Arizona/Düsseldorf) - May 19, 2020
Searching for the impossible Azumaya Algebra (Siddharth Mathur, Arizona/Düsseldorf) - May 19, 2020
Separable elements and splittings of Weyl groups (Christian Gaetz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - May 13, 2020
A geometric Euler totient function associated to non-uniform lattices in SL(2,R) (Samantha Fairchild, University of Washington) - May 12, 2020
Combinatorics of the double-dimer model (Helen Jenne, University of Oregon) - May 6, 2020
Hyperbolicity and Algebraic Hyperbolicity (Eric Riedl, Notre Dame) - May 5, 2020
Normal bundles, scrolls and Lazarsfeld Mukai bundles (Eric Riedl, Notre Dame) - May 5, 2020
Combinatorics of CAT(0) cubical complexes and crossing complexes (Rowan Rowlands, University of Washington) - April 29, 2020
Heights and moments of abelian varieties (Farbod Shokrieh, UW) - April 28, 2020
Geometry over non-archimedean fields (Farbod Shokrieh, UW) - April 28, 2020
Number of points on abelian varieties over finite fields (Borys Kadets (MIT)) - April 28, 2020
Characterizing quotients of positroids (Anastasia Chavez, University of California, Davis) - April 22, 2020
K-stability and singularities ( Kristin De Vleming, UCSD) - April 21, 2020
Coding for sunflowers (Anup Rao, University of Washington) - April 15, 2020
Global homological mirror symmetry for genus two curves (Heather Lee, University of Washington) - April 14, 2020
Pre-Seminar: Introduction to homological mirror symmetry (Heather Lee, University of Washington) - April 14, 2020
Neural codes and the factor complex (Alexander Ruys de Perez, Texas A&M University) - April 8, 2020
Topological characterisations of Loewner traces (Yizheng Yuan, Berlin) - March 10, 2020
CANCELED: Hardy’s inequalities: a unification and applications to isoperimetric inequalities (Jon Wellner, UW) - March 9, 2020
Compactness of Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian submanifolds in $C^n$ (Jingyi CHEN (UBC)) - March 5, 2020
A Graphical Approach to Higher Cyclic and Modular Operads (Philip Hackney, MSRI & University of Louisiana at Lafayette) - March 5, 2020
The Travel Time Tomography Inverse Problem for Transversely Isotropic Elastic Media (Joint w/ IP seminar) (Joey Zou (Stanford)) - March 4, 2020
Non-Eulerian Dehn-Sommerville relations (Lei Xue, University of Washington) - March 4, 2020
Equidistribution techniques in arithmetic dynamics: past and present (Nicole Looper, Brown University) - March 3, 2020
Stochastic domination in determinantal point processes (Raghavendra Tripathi, UW) - March 2, 2020
Measures on graphs and a Kazhdan’s theorem (Farbod Shokrieh, University of Washington) - February 26, 2020
On asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein manifolds (Jie QING (UC Santa Cruz)) - February 26, 2020
An inverse problem for a semi-linear elliptic equation (Joint w/ IP seminar) (Ali Feizmohammadi (University College London)) - February 25, 2020
Control Synthesis through the Lens of First Order Methods (Mehran Mesbahi, UW Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics) - February 25, 2020
Computations of the Brauer groups of some algebraic stacks (Minseon Shin, University of Washington) - February 25, 2020
Torsors, gerbes, and cohomology (Minseon Shin, University of Washington) - February 25, 2020
On p-ellipticity and connections to solvability of elliptic complex valued PDEs (Martin Dindos, Edinburgh) - February 25, 2020
Anti-concentration in most directions (Anup Rao) - February 24, 2020
The shape of a random pattern-avoiding permutation (Christopher Hoffman, University of Washington) - February 19, 2020
3264 Conics in A Second (Bernd Sturmfels, MPI Leipzig / UC Berkeley) - February 18, 2020
Torsion points on curves of the form $y^n = x^d + 1$ (Vishal Arul, MIT) - February 18, 2020
Embedding dimensions of convex codes (Amzi Jeffs, University of Washington) - February 12, 2020
Artifacts in the inversion of some ray transforms with conjugate points in two dimensions (Joint w/ IP seminar) (Yang ZHANG (Purdue U)) - February 12, 2020
Metric Algebraic Geometry (Madeleine Weinstein, Berkeley) - February 11, 2020
What is a Chow ring? (Madeleine Weinstein, Berkeley) - February 11, 2020
Pinned Balls in a Gravitational Field (Shuntao Chen, UW) - February 10, 2020
Approximation theorems for the Schrödinger equation and the reconnection of quantum vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates (Joint w/ IP seminar) (Alberto Enciso (ICMAT, Spain)) - February 5, 2020
Reflection Hopf Algebras (Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University) - February 4, 2020
Symmetries and quantum symmetries of Artin-Schelter regular algebras (Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University) - February 4, 2020
Thurston maps with four postcritical points (Annina Iseli, UCLA) - February 4, 2020
Supersingular Loci of Some Unitary Shimura Varieties (Maria Fox (Oregon)) - February 4, 2020
Electronic Seminar in Mathematics Education: A scalable hybrid introductory ODE course (Dave Levermore, University of Maryland) - February 4, 2020
Divergence, Gibbs measures, and entropic regularizations of optimal transport (Soumik Pal, UW) - February 3, 2020
A topological proof of the Shapiro-Shapiro Conjecture (Jake Levinson, University of Washington) - January 29, 2020
Conformal blocks defined by modules over vertex algebras of CohFT-type (Chiara Damiolini, Princeton University) - January 28, 2020
Algebraic geometry using conformal blocks: a gentle introduction (Chiara Damiolini, Princeton University) - January 28, 2020
Counting elliptic curves with an N-rational isogeny (Soumya Sankar, University of Wisconsin, Madison) - January 28, 2020
The Nearest Unvisited Vertex Walk on Random Graphs (David Aldous) - January 27, 2020
Acoustic Wave Imaging with Discontinuities (Joint with IP Seminar) (Peter Caday (Intel)) - January 21, 2020
Signed tropical convexity (Georg Loho, London School of Economics and Political Science) - January 15, 2020
When does a domain have trigonometric eigenfunctions for the Laplace eigenvalue equation? (Julie Rowlett) - January 15, 2020
The Riemannian Quantitative Isoperimetric Inequality (Max Engelstein, UMN) - December 12, 2019
Twisted K3 surfaces in mixed and positive characteristic (Daniel Bragg, Berkeley) - December 10, 2019
K3 surfaces in positive characteristic (Daniel Bragg, Berkeley) - December 10, 2019
Surviving and Thriving in the First Year of Grad School (Sara Billey and Tatiana Toro) - December 5, 2019
Session 8 (Sara Billey, Tatiana Toro) - December 5, 2019
A Pieri rule for key polynomials (Danjoseph Quijada) - December 4, 2019
Torsors on semistable curves and the problem of degenerations. (Vikraman Balaji, Chennai Mathematical Institute) - December 3, 2019
Parabolic bundles and parahoric bundles (Vikraman Balaji, Chennai Mathematical Institute) - December 3, 2019
General Exam (David Simmons, UW) - December 3, 2019
Electronic Seminar in Mathematics Education: Co-creating Interactive Online Exercises (Annoesjka Cabo, TU Delft) - December 3, 2019
Singularity and absolute continuity of energy measures (Mathav Murugan, University of British Columbia) - December 2, 2019
Loewner energy, determinants of Laplacians, and Brownian loop measure (Yilin Wang, MIT) - November 27, 2019
Semiorthogonal decompositions for projective plane (Dmitrii Pirozhkov, Columbia University) - November 26, 2019
Derived categories and exceptional collections (Dmitrii Pirozhkov, Columbia University) - November 26, 2019
Regularity Bootstrapping for fourth order nonlinear equations ( Arunima Bhattacharya) - November 26, 2019
The Poisson frog model on Galton-Watson trees (Joshua Rosenberg, University of Washington) - November 25, 2019
Session 7 (Bobby Wilson, Steffen Rohde) - November 21, 2019
Electrical networks, hyperplane arrangements and matroids (Bob Lutz, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute) - November 20, 2019
Computational Optimal Transport (Marco Cuturi) - November 19, 2019
Stability of fibrations over one-dimensional bases, and standard models of del Pezzo fibrations (Maksym Fedorchuk, Boston College) - November 19, 2019
Moving Averages and Coboundaries in Dynamical Systems (Joseph Rosenblatt, Univ. Illinois) - November 19, 2019
Restriction of Scalars, Chabauty's method, and P1 minus 3 points (Nicholas Triantafillou, University of Georgia) - November 19, 2019
Electronic Seminar in Mathematics Education: Incorporating service-learning into Math courses (Sara Billey, UW) - November 19, 2019
Approximation via bounds for density ratios (Jon Wellner, University of Washington) - November 18, 2019
Carleman Estimates For Globally Convergent Numerical Methods for Coefficient Inverse Problems (Mikhail V. Klibanov (U of North Carolina Charlotte)) - November 15, 2019
Session 6 (Bianca Viray) - November 14, 2019
Simplicial generation of Chow rings of matroids (Christopher Eur, University of California, Berkeley) - November 13, 2019
Optimality and Approximation with Policy Gradient Methods in Markov Decision Processes (Alekh Agarwal) - November 12, 2019
A quantification of the Besicovitch projection theorem and its generalizations (Blair Davey, CUNY) - November 12, 2019
Session 5 (Krzysztof Burdzy, Sándor Kovács) - November 7, 2019
Universal oriented matroids for subword complexes of Coxeter groups (Jean-Philippe Labbé, Freie Universität Berlin) - November 6, 2019
A variety that cannot be dominated by one that lifts (Remy van Dobben de Bruyn, Princeton University) - November 5, 2019
Weak-* stability and potential Navier-Stokes singularities (Dallas Albritton) - November 5, 2019
Average size of the automorphism group of smooth projective hypersurfaces (Vlad Matei, University of California, Irvine) - November 5, 2019
Electronic Seminar in Mathematics Education: Integrating sustainability into the mathematics curriculum (Bree Ettinger, Emory University) - November 5, 2019
Stochastic heat equation with general nonlinear spatial rough Gaussian noise (Yaozhong Hu, University of Alberta) - November 4, 2019
Session 4 (Charles Camacho, Julia Pevtsova) - October 30, 2019
Hollow polytopes of large width (Giulia Codenotti, Freie Universität Berlin) - October 30, 2019
Weierstrass points on a tropical curve (Harry Richman, University of Michigan) - October 29, 2019
Density of small-cancellation group presentations (Michal Ferov, University of Newcastle (Australia)) - October 29, 2019
Resistor networks, spanning trees, and tropical curves (Harry Richman, University of Michigan) - October 29, 2019
The Gorin-Shkolnikov identity and its random tree generalization (David Clancy , University of Washington) - October 28, 2019
Session 3 (Christopher Hoffman, Farbod Shokrieh) - October 24, 2019
Diameter bounds for cocircuit graphs of oriented matroids (Steve Klee, Seattle University) - October 23, 2019
Polynomial Decompositions in Machine Learning (Joe Kileel, Princeton University) - October 22, 2019
Tensors and Polynomials (Joe Kileel, Princeton University) - October 22, 2019
L^2 bounds for a maximal directional Hilbert transform (Jongchon Kim, UBC) - October 22, 2019
Probability and Optimization: A Beautiful Combination (Mark Squillante, IBM) - October 21, 2019
Functional inequalities of Infinite swapping algorithm: theory and applications (Wenpin Tang, UC Berkeley) - October 21, 2019
Session 2 (Rekha Thomas, Monty McGovern) - October 17, 2019
Fixed points of parking functions (Nathan Williams, University of Texas at Dallas) - October 16, 2019
Moduli spaces of tropical curves and tropical psi classes (Andreas Gross, Colorado State University) - October 15, 2019
Pre-Seminar: Intersection Theory in Tropical Geometry (Andreas Gross, Colorado State University) - October 15, 2019
Wasserstein Distance in Analysis, Number Theory and PDEs (Stefan Steinerberger, Yale) - October 15, 2019
On the Yui-Zagier conjecture (Tonghai Yang, University of Wisconsin, Madison) - October 15, 2019
Loewner chains and evolution families on parallel slit half-planes (Takuya Murayama, Kyoto University, Japan) - October 14, 2019
Session 1 (Max Lieblich, Soumik Pal) - October 10, 2019
Algebraic signatures of convexity in combinatorial neural codes (Nora Youngs, Colby College) - October 9, 2019
Determinants, polynomials, and matroids (Cynthia Vinzant, Dept. of Mathematics, North Carolina State University) - October 8, 2019
Elliptic Algebras (Paul Smith, University of Washington) - October 8, 2019
Non-commutative deformations of the polynomial rings on 3 and 4 variables. (Paul Smith, University of Washington) - October 8, 2019
Working Seminar (overview of recent work of Logunov-Malinnikova) (Bobby Wilson, UW) - October 8, 2019
Number theory video seminar: Point counting and topology - October 8, 2019
Electronic Seminar on Mathematics Education: "Student-Centered Assessment of Mathematical Proficiency" (Benjamin Braun, Kentucky) - October 8, 2019
Oriented matroids and combinatorial neural codes (Caitlin Lienkaemper, Pennsylvania State University) - October 2, 2019
Uniformization of random surface and Liouville quantum gravity (Xin Sun, Columbia University) - October 1, 2019
Uniformization of random surface and Liouville quantum gravity (Xin Sun, Columbia University) - October 1, 2019
Self-Standardized Central Limit Theorems for Trimmed Subordinators (David Mason, University of Delaware) - September 30, 2019
Working Seminar (overview of recent work of Logunov-Malinnikova) (Bobby Wilson, UW) - September 24, 2019
Electronic Seminar on Mathematics Education: "A focus on student buy-in: Why it matters and what to do about it" (Stan Yoshinobu, Cal Poly) - September 24, 2019
Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences: Two Examples (Sunil Chebolu, Illinois State University, and Haynes Miller, MIT) - September 10, 2019
On the equivalence of viscosity and distribution solutions of second-order PDEs with Neumann boundary conditions (Jiagang Ren (Sun Yat-sun University, China)) - August 14, 2019
The upper bound theorem for centrally symmetric simplicial spheres (Hailun Zheng, University of Michigan) - July 29, 2019
Suprema of Levy processes - formulae, estimates and asymptotics (Jacek Malecki,Technical University, Wroclaw, Poland) - July 2, 2019
Hessenberg varieties and the Stanley--Stembridge conjecture (Martha Precup, Washington University in St. Louis) - June 5, 2019
A weighted eigenvalue problem of the biased infinity Laplacian (Fang LIU (Nanjing University of Science and Technology/UW)) - June 5, 2019
Matroids and statistical dependency (Art Duval, University of Texas at El Paso) - June 5, 2019
Pathwise Otto calculus (Walter Schachermayer, University of Vienna) - May 29, 2019
Exposed circuits, linear quotients, and chordal clutters (Anton Dochtermann, Texas State) - May 29, 2019
Nonconvexity and compact containment of mean value sets for second order uniformly elliptic operators in divergence form (Niles Armstrong, Kansas State University) - May 28, 2019
Newton polygons in the Torelli locus (Yunqing Tang, Princeton) - May 28, 2019
Affine Schubert calculus and diagonal coinvariants (Erik Carlsson, UC Davis) - May 22, 2019
Log-modular quantum groups at even roots of unity (Cris Negron, MIT) - May 21, 2019
Counting Conjugacy Classes: Groups Rebelling Against Dynamics (Catherine Pfaff, Queen's University) - May 21, 2019
Community detection in sparse random hypergraphs (Yizhe Zhu, UW Mathematics) - May 20, 2019
Nonnegative polynomials: from optimization to control and learning (Amir Ali Ahmadi, ORFE, Princeton University) - May 17, 2019
Counting flags in Eulerian posets: The cd-index (Marge Bayer, University of Kansas) - May 15, 2019
From conic programming to real algebraic geometry and back (Daniel Plaumann, Technische Universität Dortmund and Rainer Sinn, Freie Universität Berlin) - May 14, 2019
Stable sheaves in projective space (Benjamin Schmidt (UT Austin)) - May 14, 2019
Ancient collapsed solutions of mean curvature flow (Theodora Bourni, University of Tennessee ) - May 14, 2019
Kostant’s partition function (Pamela Harris, Williams College) - May 14, 2019
Probabilistic Methods for Big Data and Machine Learning (Ping Li, Chief Scientist at Baidu and Head of Cognitive Computing Lab (CCL) at Baidu Research ) - May 13, 2019
K polynomials and matroids (Andrew Berget, Western Washington University) - May 8, 2019
Regularity of soap films near the boundary (Guy David, University of Paris XI) - May 7, 2019
Brauer and Homotopy Obstructions to Rational Points (David Corwin, UC Berkeley) - May 7, 2019
Concentration and Large Deviations for Weakly Interacting Particle Systems and Mean-Field Games (Kavita Ramanan, Brown University) - May 6, 2019
Reconstructing trees from traces (Samantha Davies, University of Washington) - May 2, 2019
Uniformizing surfaces via discrete harmonic maps (Ryokichi Tanaka, Tohoku University) - April 30, 2019
Random permutations and growth models (Christopher Hoffman) - April 25, 2019
Enumerating square-tiled surfaces in genus two. (Sunrose Shrestha, Tufts University) - April 23, 2019
Frobenius distributions (Edgar Costa, MIT) - April 23, 2019
Stochastic Fixed Point Equation with Nonnegative Coefficients (Tvrtko Tadic, Microsoft) - April 22, 2019
Cyclic sieving, necklaces, and branching rules related to Thrall's problem (Connor Ahlbach, UW) - April 17, 2019
Counting square-tiled surfaces with prescribed real and imaginary foliations (Francisco Arana Herrera, Stanford) - April 16, 2019
The Artin-Tate pairing on the Brauer group of a surface. (Tony Feng (Stanford)) - April 16, 2019
Optimal Control and Optimal Transport ( Mathias Hudoba de Badyn, University of Washington Aeronautics and Astronautics) - April 15, 2019
Homotopy Theory for Coalgebras ( Maximilien Peroux, University of Illinois at Chicago) - April 11, 2019
An Introduction to Information Theoretic Minimax Lower Bounds (Jennifer Rogers, University of Washington) - April 11, 2019
Geometric manifold learning methods and collective variables (Joint with IP seminar) (Marina Meila (UW, Statistics)) - April 10, 2019
Algebraic characterizations and combinatorial properties of (non)regular graphs with thin module of endpoint zero (Safet Penjić, University of Primorska, Andrej Marušič Institute) - April 10, 2019
A functorial approach to multiview geometry ( Lucas Van Meter) - April 9, 2019
On the size of the singular set in the Stefan problem (Xavier Ros-Oton, Universität Zürich) - April 9, 2019
Near log-convexity of heat and the k-Hamming distance problem (Mert Saglam, UW CS) - April 8, 2019
The structure of the homotopy groups of the motivic sphere spectrum (Kyle Ormsby, Reed College) - April 4, 2019
Compact moduli space of Fano Kahler-Einstein varieties (Xiaowei Wang) - April 2, 2019
Pre-seminar: GIT stability, K-stability and Symplectic quotient. (Xiaowei Wang) - April 2, 2019
The diffusion analogue to a tree-valued Markov chain. (Noah Forman, University of Washington) - April 1, 2019
An Introduction to the Little Lip Function (Bruce Hanson, St. Olaf) - March 26, 2019
Transitivity of mapping class group actions and intractability of 3-manifold invariants (Greg Kuperberg, UC Davis) - March 19, 2019
A Smoother Way to Train Structured Prediction Models (Krishna Pillutla, University of Washington ) - March 14, 2019
Lines on hypersurfaces (Eric Riedl) - March 12, 2019
Lines in projective space (Eric Riedl) - March 12, 2019
Borel Subsystems and Ergodic Universality for Compact Zd-systems via Specification and Beyond (Tom Meyerovitch, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) - March 12, 2019
The arithmetic puncturing problem (David McKinnon, University of Waterloo) - March 12, 2019
Random walks on oriented lattices (Yiping Hu, University of Washington) - March 11, 2019
Cartan-Iwahori-Matsumoto decompositions for reductive groups (Jarod Alper (UW)) - March 5, 2019
Some recent results about geometric variational problems (Yannick Sire, Johns Hopkins) - March 5, 2019
Unfolding Mathematics at Burning Man (Satyan Devadoss, University of San Diego) - March 4, 2019
Higher Order Asymptotics for Large Deviations (Pratima Hebbar, University of Maryland) - March 4, 2019
Polynomial Optimization in Computer Vision (Andrew Pryhuber, University of Washington ) - February 27, 2019
Involution graph Schubert varieties (Brendan Pawlowski, University of Southern California) - February 27, 2019
Deep neural network architectures in geo-inverse problems (Joint with IP seminar) (Maarten de Hoop (Rice University)) - February 26, 2019
Combinatorial Problems Related to Automorphism Groups of Compact Riemann Surfaces (Charles Camacho, Oregon State) - February 26, 2019
Rational distance sets and Lang’s Conjecture (Amos Turchet, University of Washington) - February 26, 2019
Singular reflected diffusions (Sayan Banerjee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) - February 25, 2019
TBA (Martin Dindos, Edinburgh) - February 25, 2019
Chromatic homotopy is algebraic when p>n²+n+1 (Piotr Pstrągowski, Northwestern University) - February 21, 2019
Inverse problems for polyharmonic operators with lower order perturbations (Joint with IP seminar) (Sombuddha Bhattacharyya (HKUST)) - February 20, 2019
TBA (Julianna Tymoczko, Smith College) - February 20, 2019
Minimal surfaces by way of complex analysis (Franc Forstneric, University of Ljubljana) - February 19, 2019
Inverse problem for fractional Laplacian operator with lower order non-local perturbations (Joint with IP seminar) (Tuhin Ghosh (HKUST)) - February 13, 2019
2-associahedra (Nathaniel Bottman, Institute for Advanced Study) - February 13, 2019
Multi-phase problems for harmonic measure, harmonic polynomials, and platonic solids. (Matthew Badger) - February 12, 2019
Combinatorial Gauss-Bonnet Theorem and its applications (Byung-Geun Oh (Hanyang University, Republic of Korea)) - February 12, 2019
Noise impact on finite dimensional dynamical systems (Yingfei Yi, University of Alberta) - February 11, 2019
Harry Potter's Cloak Via Transformation Optics (Gunther Uhlmann) - February 7, 2019
The fixed angle inverse scattering problem for the perturbed wave equation and inversion from two experiment data (Joint with IP seminar) (Rakesh (University of Delaware)) - February 6, 2019
Local constructions of manifolds (Bruno Benedetti, University of Miami) - February 6, 2019
Low Regularity Solutions for Gravity Water Waves (Albert Ai (UC Berkeley)) - February 5, 2019
The diffusion analogue to a tree-valued Markov chain (Noah Forman, University of Washington) - February 4, 2019
Geometric group theory in need of algebraic topology (Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University (SUNY)) - January 31, 2019
The alignment principle (Kellie MacPhee, University of Washington) - January 30, 2019
Characterization of Queer Supercrystals. (Graham Hawkes, UC Davis) - January 30, 2019
On the dimension of Furstenberg measure for SL(2,R) random matrix products and the Diophantine condition in matrix groups. (Boris Solomyak (University of Bar-Ilan )) - January 29, 2019
Anomalous diffusions and fractional order differential equations (Zhenqing Chen, University of Washington) - January 28, 2019
A zoo of complex, symplectic, non Kähler manifolds (Giovanni Bazzoni (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)) - January 22, 2019
Closed Singular Geodesics on Platonic Solids (Jayadev Athreya, UW) - January 16, 2019
Feigin and Odesskii's elliptic algebras (Ryo Kanda (Osaka and UW)) - January 15, 2019
Reflected diffusions with local time-dependent noise (Clayton Barnes (Université de Neuchâtel)) - January 14, 2019
Cancellation Problem for Algebras (Professor Xin Tang (Fayetteville State University)) - January 8, 2019
Impatient random walk (Janos Englander, University of Colorado) - January 7, 2019
On Borel - Bott - Weil Parabolics for Simple Classical Lie Superalgebras (Dan Nakano, University of Georgia) - December 11, 2018
Asymmetric Annihilating Particle Systems (Matt Junge (Duke University)) - December 10, 2018
Bounds for Schr\"odinger operators with complex potentials and non-trapping metrics (Katya Krupchyk (UC Irvine)) - December 5, 2018
Enumerating spanning trees in bipartite graphs (Steve Klee, Seattle University) - December 5, 2018
Anisotropic counterpart of Allard’s rectifiability theorem and Plateau problem. (Antonio De Rosa, Courant Institute) - December 4, 2018
Interpolating Between the Batyrev-Manin and Malle Conjectures (Matthew Satriano (Waterloo)) - December 4, 2018
A coupled physics inverse problem in electro-seismic imaging (joint w/ IP seminar) (Yang Yang (Michigan State)) - December 4, 2018
Stochastic Kolmogorov Systems (George Yin (Wayne State University)) - December 3, 2018
(CORE Series) Variations on a theme by G. Dantzig: Revisiting the principles of the Simplex Algorithm (Jesús De Loera, UC Davis) - November 30, 2018
Inverse problems for the nonlinear Maxwell equations in Kerr-type media (joint w/ IP seminar) (Yernat Assylbekov (Michigan State)) - November 29, 2018
Deformation of Einstein metrics and $$L^2$$ cohomology on strictly pseudoconvex domains (Yoshihiko Matsumoto (Osaka University and Stanford University)) - November 28, 2018
Minimal Obstructions to Convexity in Combinatorial Codes (Amzi Jeffs, University of Washington) - November 28, 2018
Soap films with gravity and almost-minimal surfaces (Salvatore Stuvard, UT Austin) - November 27, 2018
Saturated blowups and canonical reduction of stabilizers. (Dan Edidin) - November 27, 2018
Heat kernel on the uniform spanning tree in two dimension (Martin Barlow (University of British Columbia, Canada)) - November 26, 2018
Constructing stability conditions on Fukaya categories by using relative versions of stability conditions (Alex Takeda (UC Berkeley)) - November 25, 2018
TBA (Bobby Wilson, UW) - November 20, 2018
Conductors and minimal discriminants of hyperelliptic curves (Padmavathi Srinivasan, Georgia Institute of Technology) - November 20, 2018
Use of Probability in Global Optimization (Zelda Zabinsky (UW, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering)) - November 19, 2018
Stable equivalence of smoothly knotted surfaces (Dave Auckly, Kansas State University) - November 16, 2018
Current Topics Seminar: Krzysztof Burdzy (Krzysztof Burdzy) - November 15, 2018
Completely log concave polynomials and Mason’s log concavity conjecture (Shayan Oveis Gharan, University of Washington) - November 14, 2018
Geometric realization of cyclically branched covers over spheres (Dami Lee, UW) - November 13, 2018
TBA (Ben Williams) - November 13, 2018
Essential dimension of representations of algebra (Federico Scavia, UBC) - November 13, 2018
Exceptional splitting of abelian surfaces over global function fields. ( Ananth Shankar, MIT) - November 13, 2018
Current Topics Seminar: Sándor Kovács (Sándor Kovács) - November 8, 2018
Topology Seminar: Towards the dual motivic Steenrod algebra in positive characteristic (Martin Frankland) - November 8, 2018
Optimal Mass Transport: Theory and Applications (Mathias Hudoba de Badyn, University of Washington) - November 8, 2018
The slack realization space of a polytope (Amy Wiebe) - November 7, 2018
Regularity of Weak Solutions to Linear Parabolic Systems with Measurable Coefficients (Simon Bortz, UW) - November 6, 2018
Gelfand-Tsetlin representations for gl(n) (Vyacheslav Futorny) - November 6, 2018
Seeing inside the Earth with micro earthquakes (special seminar) (Teemu Saksala (Rice U)) - November 6, 2018
Spectral and travel time tomography on Mars with InSight (joint w/ IP seminar) (Joonas Ilmavirta (University of Jyvaskyla)) - November 5, 2018
Quenched asymptotics for Brownian motion in a spatial Gaussian noise (Xia Chen (University of Tennessee) ) - November 5, 2018
Current Topics Seminar: Monty McGovern (Monty McGovern) - November 1, 2018
Geodesic flow, X-ray transform, and boundary rigidity on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds (Robin Graham (UW)) - October 31, 2018
A Simply Exponential Upper Bound on the Maximum Number of Stable Matchings (Anna Karlin, University of Washington) - October 31, 2018
Uniform level set estimates for the first Dirichlet eigenfunction (Thomas Beck, University of North Carolina) - October 30, 2018
Explicit Plancherel Measures and Counting L-functions (David Roberts, University of Minnesota Morris) - October 30, 2018
Probabilistic approach for nonlinear PDEs and SPDEs with Neumann boundary conditions (Jing Wu (Sun Yat-sen University and UW)) - October 29, 2018
Fredholm theory and the resolvent of the Laplacian near zero energy on asymptotically conic spaces (Andras Vasy (Stanford University)) - October 26, 2018
Career Transitions: Post-prelim chat (Tatiana Toro) - October 25, 2018
Nonlinear detection of Hermitian connections in Minkowski space (joint w/ IP seminar) (Gabriel Paternain (University of Cambridge)) - October 24, 2018
Flying High With Math - Career Seminar for Undergraduates (Sharon Arroyo) - October 24, 2018
Graded Expectations: An Invitation to Probabilistic Commutative Algebra (Matthew Stamps, Yale-NUS College) - October 24, 2018
Lower-tail large deviations of the KPZ equation (Li-Cheng Tsai (Columbia University)) - October 22, 2018
The Pacific Northwest Probability Seminar 2018 - October 20, 2018
Current Topics Seminar: Soumik Pal (Soumik Pal) - October 18, 2018
Decomposing k-fold acyclic complexes (Bennet Goeckner, University of Washington) - October 17, 2018
TBA (Priyam Patel, UCSD) - October 16, 2018
Homomorphisms of pure mapping class groups to the integers (Priyam Patel, UCSD) - October 16, 2018
A local-global principle for isogenies of elliptic curves (Isabel Vogt, MIT) - October 16, 2018
Duality Analysis for Optimal Skorokhod Embeddings (Aaron Palmer (University of British Columbia) ) - October 15, 2018
The Santa Claus Problem (Samantha Davies, University of Washington) - October 11, 2018
A semiclassical framework for elastic surface waves: analysis and inverse problems (joint w/ IP seminar) (Jian Zhai (UW)) - October 10, 2018
The Unit-distance graph and the Odd-distance graph (Moshe Rosenfeld, University of Washington, Tacoma) - October 10, 2018
C^ {1, α} Reifenberg Theorems for Sets and Measures (Silvia Ghinassi, Stony Brook ) - October 9, 2018
CONCENTRATION OF MEASURE FOR STOCHASTIC HEAT EQUATION (Andrey Sarantsev (University of Nevada, Reno)) - October 8, 2018
Chromatic quasisymmetric functions and regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties (John Shareshian, Washington University in St. Louis) - October 3, 2018
Some of my favorite open problems (David Aldous (University of California, Berkeley) ) - October 1, 2018
Sandpiles, (un)decidability, and mod 1 harmonic functions (Lionel Levine, Cornell University) - August 28, 2018
Shifted Poisson geometry of moduli space (Zheng Hua, University of Hong Kong) - August 7, 2018
Transition density estimates for diagonal systems of SDEs driven by cylindrical α-stable processes (Tadeusz Kulczycki, Wroclaw University of Technology) - July 18, 2018
Splitting Loops and Necklaces: Variants of the Square Peg Problem (Florian Frick, Cornell University) - July 9, 2018
Refinement of partition identities (Jehanne Dousse, Universität Zürich) - June 18, 2018
Uniqueness for Thermoacoustic Toomography with Integro-Differential Acoustic Attenuation (Benjamin Palacios, University of Chicago) - June 12, 2018
High Dimensional Time Series and Free Probability (Arup Bose, Indian Statistical Institute) - June 7, 2018
The lifting of stochastic processes and related thermodynamic quantities. (Yue Wang, Department of Applied Math, Univ of Washington) - June 4, 2018
Let’s Talk About Mental Health (Grad students and postdocs only) (Megan Kennedy, UW Health and Wellness) - May 31, 2018
The Combinatorics of Macdonald Polynomial Operators (Jim Haglund, University of Pennsylvania) - May 30, 2018
Let’s Make Block Coordinate Descent Go Fast (Mark Schmidt, University of British Columbia) - May 29, 2018
Career Transitions Series: Academic Jobs - May 24, 2018
Configuration Spaces on Trees with Loops (Safia Chettih) - May 24, 2018
Everything but the kitchen sink: A mathematician's guide to remodeling your kitchen (Sam Fairchild) - May 24, 2018
$\mathbb R$-invariant CR structures, hypoellipticity, and Kodaira's vanishing theorem (Gerardo Mendoza (Temple University)) - May 23, 2018
Major Index Statistics: Cyclic Sieving, Branching Rules, and Asymptotics (Josh Swanson, University of Washington) - May 23, 2018
Equidistribution of expanding translates of shrinking curves and Dirichlet's approximation theorem (Pengyu Yang , Ohio State University) - May 22, 2018
p-adic Gross-Zagier formula at critical slope and a conjecture of Perrin-Riou (Kazim Buyukboduk, Koc University) - May 22, 2018
Analytic and statistical aspects of geodesic X-ray transforms (Francois Monard, UC Santa Cruz) - May 21, 2018
Relative smoothness condition and its application to third-order methods (CORE talk) (Yurii Nesterov (CORE/INMA, UCL, Belgium)) - May 21, 2018
A hydrodynamic limit of interacting Brownian particles using Skorohod maps (Clayton Barnes) - May 21, 2018
How efficiently can one untangle a double-twist? Waving is believing! (David Pengelley, Oregon State University) - May 17, 2018
Boundary Layers in Kinetic-Fluid Coupling (joint w/ IP seminar) (Qin Li (University of Wisconsin, Madison)) - May 16, 2018
Boundary Layers in Kinetic-Fluid Coupling (Qin Li, University of Wisconsin, Madison) - May 16, 2018
The conjugacy action of S_n and variations on the module Lie_n (Sheila Sundaram, Pierrepont School) - May 16, 2018
Traveling along Hölder curves (Matthew Badger, University of Connecticut) - May 15, 2018
Uniqueness and propagation of chaos for the Boltzmann equation with moderately soft potentials (Liping Xu, University of Washington) - May 14, 2018
Same old, same old: Symmetries in the calculus of variations (Ravi Shankar) - May 10, 2018
Matroid h-vectors (José Samper, University of Miami) - May 9, 2018
Siegel-Veech transforms are in L^2 (Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington) - May 8, 2018
Determining both the source of a wave and its speed in a medium from boundary measurements (Amir Moradifam, UC Riverside) - May 7, 2018
Universal fluctuation of the dimer model on a Riemann surface. (Gourab Ray, Universtity of Victoria) - May 7, 2018
Current Topics Seminar: Heather Lee (Heather Lee) - May 3, 2018
No admittance... we're at capacity (David Simmons) - May 3, 2018
Symmetric functions, towers of algebras, and Heisenberg categories (Henry Kvinge, University of California, Davis) - May 2, 2018
Elliptic measures and the geometry of the domains (Zihui Zhao, University of Washington) - May 1, 2018
The tragedy of the commons in the chemostat (David Finch, Oregon State) - April 30, 2018
Relating path statistics to terminal distributions for a class of positive martingales. (Matt Lorig, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington) - April 30, 2018
No admittance... we're at capacity (David Simmons) - April 28, 2018
Drunks in an unfair world: Elliptic measures and the geometry of the domains (Zihui Zhao) - April 26, 2018
CAUSAL HOLOGRAPHY IN APPLICATION TO THE INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS (joint w/ IP seminar) (Gabriel Katz (MIT)) - April 25, 2018
Causal holography and applications to inverse scattering problems (Gabriel Katz, MIT) - April 25, 2018
Forbidden Configurations in Discrete Geometry (David Epstein, University of California, Irvine) - April 25, 2018
Automatic convexity and Ornstein's L-one noninequalities (Bernd Kirchheim, Universität Leipzig) - April 24, 2018
Assouad-type dimensions and their role in embedding metric spaces (Sascha Troscheit, University of Waterloo) - April 23, 2018
Everyday I'm Shuffling: From circle rotations to the Fields Medal (Anthony Sanchez) - April 19, 2018
Reconstruction of Spacetime Geometry from Quantum Entanglement (joint w/ IP seminar) (Charles Cao (Caltech)) - April 18, 2018
Reconstruction of Spacetime Geometry from Quantum Entanglement (Charles Cao, Caltech) - April 18, 2018
Staircase diagrams and the enumeration of smooth affine permutations (Ed Richmond, Oklahoma State University) - April 18, 2018
Stochastic Homogenization for Reaction-Diffusion Equations (Jessica Lin, McGill University) - April 17, 2018
NT Seminar: Explicit modularity in genus 2 (John Voight, Dartmouth College) - April 17, 2018
Inverse Problems for Non-Local Operators (Tuhin Ghosh, University of Washington) - April 16, 2018
Heat kernel estimates for symmetric jump processes with general mixed polynomial growths (Panki Kim, Seoul National University) - April 16, 2018
Smooth criminals (or if you prefer, smooth approximations of non-smooth functions) - April 12, 2018
CLT for descents in conjugacy classes of S_n (Gene Kim, University of Southern California) - April 11, 2018
Boundary Regularity for the Free Boundary in the One-phase Problem (Hector Chang-Lara, Columbia University) - April 10, 2018
Robust Merton Problem with Nondominated Priors (Kerem Ugurlu, University of Washington, Applied Mathematics) - April 9, 2018
Current Topics Seminar: Rekha Thomas (Rekha Thomas) - April 5, 2018
Hold your horses, an introduction to the martingale problem (David Clancy) - April 5, 2018
Singularities of K-orbit closures and interval pattern avoidance (Ben Wyser, Oklahoma State University) - April 4, 2018
(Pre-seminar) Subvarieties of the flag variety, smoothness, and patterns (Ben Wyser, Oklahoma State University) - April 4, 2018
Random Geometric Covering Problems (Amites Sarkar, Western Washington University) - April 2, 2018
Taking the long way home: Orbits of plane partitions (Oliver Pechenik, University of Michigan) - March 28, 2018
Harmonic measure on sets of co-dimension larger than 1 (Guy David, Université Paris-Sud ) - March 27, 2018
Major Index Asymptotics (Josh Swanson, University of Washington) - March 26, 2018
Schauder estimates for the Hamiltonian stationary equation (Arunima Bhattacharya (U of Oregon)) - March 22, 2018
Extendability of conformal structures on punctured surfaces (Jingyi Chen (UBC)) - March 22, 2018
Statistics and Computing by Counting Inversions (Marina Meila, University of Washington) - March 7, 2018
Heat flow on snowballs (Mathav Murugan, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver) - March 6, 2018
(AAG Seminar) Cohomology of cluster varieties (David Speyer, University of Michigan) - March 6, 2018
Three new concentration inequalities for time series data (Fang Han (University of Washington Statistics)) - March 5, 2018
Ideals of QSym, shuffle-compatibility and exterior peaks (Darij Grinberg, University of Minnesota) - February 28, 2018
The Zimmer Program (Sebastian Hurtado Salazar, University of Chicago) - February 27, 2018
A Homological Theory of Functions (Greg Yang, Microsoft Research) - February 22, 2018
Using analysis to find projective modules (Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins) - February 22, 2018
Shuffle-Compatible Permutation Statistics (Yan Zhuang, Brandeis University) - February 21, 2018
The nodal set of solutions to sublinear equations (Nicola Soave, Politecnico di Milano) - February 20, 2018
TBA (Walid Krichene, Google Research and Machine Intelligence) - February 20, 2018
Fine Structure of the Free-Boundary, or "What is going on underneath the covers?" (Sean McCurdy) - February 15, 2018
On the Circuit Diameter Conjecture (Tamon Stephen, Simon Fraser University) - February 14, 2018
How to Swing By Saddle Points: Faster Non-Convex Optimization than SGD (Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Microsoft Research) - February 13, 2018
(Uniform) rectifiability and (integral) Menger curvature (Max Goering, University of Washington) - February 13, 2018
Probability Seminar (Tvrkto Tadic, Microsoft) - February 12, 2018
(Uniform) Rectifiability and (integral) Menger curvature (Max Goering) - February 8, 2018
Rational smoothness and pattern avoidance for arbitrary involutions (Monty McGovern, University of Washington) - February 7, 2018
Minimal Surfaces Close to a Plane and Two-Valued Harmonic Functions (Spencer Becker-Kahn, University of Washington) - February 6, 2018
Probability Seminar (Deanna Needell, UCLA) - February 5, 2018
Reflection length in affine reflection groups (Joel Lewis, George Washington University) - January 31, 2018
Federated Learning: Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data (Jakub Konečný , Google) - January 30, 2018
Probability Seminar (Noah Forman, UW) - January 29, 2018
Hiding the source of a rumor (Jacob Richey) - January 25, 2018
Projectively consistent random walks on a space of trees with integer edge weights (Noah Forman, University of Washington) - January 24, 2018
Dissipative Time Reversal method and Thermoacoustic Tomography ( Benjamin Palacious, University of Washington) - January 22, 2018
Probability Seminar (Jinsu Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison) - January 22, 2018
Dual braid monoids, Koszul algebras, and clusters (Philippe Nadeau, CNRS & Université Lyon 1) - January 17, 2018
Prism Tableaux and Alternating Sign Matrices (Anna Weigandt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - January 11, 2018
Prism Tableaux and Alternating Sign Matrices (Pre-Seminar) (Anna Weigandt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - January 10, 2018
Stability estimates for partial data inverse problems for Schrodinger operators in the high frequency limit (Katya Krupchyk) - January 9, 2018
Strictly pseudoconvex domains in C^2 with obstruction flat boundary (Sean Curry, UC San Diego) - December 6, 2017
Noncommutative Schur functions, Fomin-Greene monoids and LR coefficients (Vasu Tewari, University of Washington) - December 6, 2017
From Period Coordinates to Teichmueller Distance (Ian Frankel, University of Chicago) - December 5, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - December 5, 2017
Higher Eisenstein Congruences (Cathy Hsu, University of Oregon) - December 5, 2017
Algebraic constructions of Markov duality functions (Jeffrey Kuan, Columbia University) - December 4, 2017
Current Topics Seminar (Maria Langworthy, Microsoft) - November 30, 2017
The combinatorics of symmetric quotient rings (Andy Wilson, University of Pennsylvania) - November 29, 2017
The 1-dimensional extension property in complex analysis (Mark Lawrence, Nazarbayev University) - November 28, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - November 28, 2017
Activated random walk on a cycle (Jacob Richey, University of Washington) - November 27, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - November 21, 2017
Unlikely intersections in families of abelian varieties and generalized Pell equations in polynomials (Laura Capuano, Oxford) - November 21, 2017
'Probabilyzing' Parking Functions (Persi Diaconis, Stanford University) - November 20, 2017
'Probabilyzing' Parking Functions (Persi Diaconis, Stanford University) - November 20, 2017
An action of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group on stable curves of genus zero (Marcy Robertson, University of Melbourne) - November 16, 2017
A tale of two congruences: The Fermat-Wilson-Derivatives-Zeta connection. (Dinesh Thakur, Rochester) - November 16, 2017
Gram’s relation, cone valuations, and combinatorics (Raman Sanyal, Goethe-University Frankfurt) - November 15, 2017
Estimate exponential memory decay in Hidden Markov Model and its applications (Felix Ye, Department of Applied Mathematics) - November 14, 2017
On minimizers and critical points for anisotropic isoperimetric problems (Robin Neumayer, Northwestern University) - November 14, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - November 14, 2017
Malle's conjecture for compositum of number fields (Jiuya Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison) - November 14, 2017
Least squares estimation: beyond Gaussian regression models (Roy Han, University of Washington) - November 13, 2017
Domino Tilings and the Gaussian Free Field - November 9, 2017
Tight and stacked triangulations of manifolds (Basudeb Datta, Indian Institute of Science) - November 8, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - November 7, 2017
Galloway & Schoen's generalization of the black hole topology theorem (Maddie Burkhart) - November 2, 2017
Descent polynomials (Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University) - November 2, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - October 31, 2017
Introductory talk: Introduction to Layer Potentials. Main talk: A Singular Integral Approach to Two-Phase Free Boundary Problems (Simon Bortz, University of Minnesota) - October 31, 2017
NT seminar: Dynamics and small points in families of elliptic curves (Myrto Mavraki, UBC) - October 31, 2017
Geodesics in First-Passage Percolation (Chris Hoffman, University of Washington) - October 30, 2017
Career Transitions: "Happily Ever Aftermath" (Annalisa Crannell) - October 27, 2017
Career Transitions: Post-prelim chat (Sara Billey) - October 26, 2017
Brownian excursions and random trees (David Clancy) - October 26, 2017
Generalized Permutohedra from Probabilistic Graphical Models (Josephine Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology) - October 25, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - October 24, 2017
Uniqueness of mean curvature flow through (some) singularities (Or Hershkovits, Stanford) - October 24, 2017
Composite Modeling and Optimization, with Applications to Phase Retrieval and Nonlinear Observation Modeling (CORE Seminar*) (John Duchi, Departments of Statistics and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University) - October 20, 2017
Current Topics Seminar (Amos Turchet) - October 19, 2017
Harmonic measures in the plane and higher-dimensional spaces (Zihui Zhao) - October 19, 2017
Explicit Methods in Abelian Varieties Seminar: The orbit intersection problem for linear spaces and semiabelian varieties (Khoa Nguyen, University of British Columbia) - October 19, 2017
The geometry of scheduling (Carly Klivans, Brown University) - October 18, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - October 17, 2017
Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces (Alex Wright, Stanford) - October 17, 2017
Number theory seminar: A p-adic Stark conjecture in the context of quadratic fields (Joseph Ferrara, University of California, Santa Cruz) - October 17, 2017
A graphon approach to spectral analysis of random matrices (Yizhe Zhu, University of Washington) - October 16, 2017
The Peterson Isomorphism: Moduli of Curves and Alcove Walks (Elizabeth Milicevic, Haverford College) - October 11, 2017
A free boundary problem on three-dimensional cones (Mark Allen, Brigham Young University) - October 10, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - October 10, 2017
Number theory seminar (Dijana Kreso, UBC) - October 10, 2017
Evolutionary dynamics of cancer and its response to treatment (Professor Ivana Bozic) - October 9, 2017
Flatness implies Smoothness (Yue Zhao) - October 5, 2017
A crystal-like structure on shifted tableaux (Jake Levinson, University of Washington) - October 4, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - October 3, 2017
Infinite systems of competing Brownian particles (Andrey Sarantsev) - October 2, 2017
Affine Robinson-Schensted and affine dual equivalence graphs ( Pavlo Pylyavskyy, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities) - September 27, 2017
Existence and uniqueness of vortex patch for two dimensional Euler equation (Daomin CAO, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Academia Sinica) - August 16, 2017
Matroid Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials (Max Wakefield, USNA) - August 3, 2017
Cyclic descents of standard Young tableaux (Yuval Roichman, Bar-Ilan University) - July 6, 2017
A characterization of simplicial manifolds with g2 ≤ 2 (Hailun Zheng, University of Washington) - July 3, 2017
A Generic Quasi-Newton Algorithm for Faster Gradient-Based Optimization (Hongzhou Lin, Inria Grenoble) - June 6, 2017
Sketchy Decisions: Convex Low-Rank Matrix Optimization with Optimal Storage (Madeleine Udell, Department of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University) - June 1, 2017
Harmonic forms on compact manifolds (Madeleine Burkhart) - June 1, 2017
On a hierarchy of Hopf monoids related to matroid theory (José Alejandro Samper, University of Miami) - May 31, 2017
Gauge and perspective duality (Kellie MacPhee, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington) - May 30, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - May 30, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (James Zhang, University of Washington) - May 30, 2017
Fitting ideals in equivariant Iwasawa theory (Takenori Kataoka, University of Tokyo) - May 30, 2017
Metrics on the space of probability measures with applications (Clayton Barnes) - May 25, 2017
Fractal uncertainty principle (Semyon Dyatlov, MIT) - May 24, 2017
Boundary behaviour of the Weil-Petersson metric (Xuwen Zhu, Stanford University ) - May 24, 2017
An Introduction to Species and Operads (Jonathan Beardsley, University of Washington) - May 24, 2017
How to Become a Liberated Mathematician in 13 Painful Years (Piper Harron, Hawaii) - May 23, 2017
Random trees via conformal welding (Peter Lin, UW) - May 23, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - May 23, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Ronen Mukamel, Rice University) - May 23, 2017
Equidistribution of shapes of cubic fields of fixed quadratic resolvent (Robert Harron, University of Hawaii) - May 23, 2017
Heat content determines planar triangles (Reed Meyerson, University of Washington) - May 22, 2017
Brownian motion in a wedge with jump boundary conditions (Emily K Dinan, University of Washington) - May 22, 2017
Polytopes versus centrally symmetric polytopes (Isabella Novik) - May 18, 2017
Geometry of uniform measures (Dali Nimer, University of Washington) - May 18, 2017
Strichartz estimates for wave equations with charge transfer Hamiltonians (Gong Chen, University of Chicago) - May 17, 2017
Schur positivity and ascent-descent statistics on labeled binary trees (Sean Griffin, University of Washington) - May 17, 2017
Triangular Numbers and an interesting Equilibrium. (Mel Currie, NSA) - May 16, 2017
Asymptotically optimal shapes: the drum with lowest n-th frequency, and the ellipse enclosing the most lattice points (Richard Laugesen, University of Illinois) - May 16, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - May 16, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Daniel Nakano, University of Georgia) - May 16, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Toby Stafford, University of Manchester) - May 16, 2017
Determining the lines of response for PET detectors (Larry Pierce, University of Washington) - May 15, 2017
An introduction to the random Interlacements process and the uni and bi dimensional versions (Darcy Camargo, University of Campinas and UW) - May 15, 2017
Determining rough first order perturbations of the polyharmonic operator (Karthik Iyer, University of Washington) - May 11, 2017
Melting of ice, meatloaf and wall problems: an introduction to free boundary problems (Mariana Smit Vega Garcia) - May 11, 2017
Non-linear stability of Kerr-de Sitter black holes (Peter Hintz, UC Berkeley) - May 10, 2017
Thieves and high-dimensional necklaces (Pablo Soberón, Northeastern University) - May 10, 2017
What’s the shape of your penalty? (Peng Zheng, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington) - May 9, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - May 9, 2017
Absolute continuity of harmonic measure on rough domains (Murat Akman, University of Connecticut) - May 9, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Katrina Honigs, University of Utah) - May 9, 2017
Greatest common divisors and Diophantine approximation (Aaron Levin, Michigan State University) - May 9, 2017
On the spectrum of the earth ( Maarten de Hoop, Rice University) - May 8, 2017
The bullet problem with discrete speeds (Matthew Junge, Duke University) - May 8, 2017
Fields of trees and trees of fields (Tim Mesikepp, University of Washington) - May 4, 2017
Corners scatter for electromagnetic waves (Jingni Xiao, Hong Kong Baptist University) - May 3, 2017
Chromatic bases for symmetric functions (Samantha Dahlberg, University of British Columbia) - May 3, 2017
An Optimal First-order Method Based on Optimal Quadratic Averaging (Scott Roy, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington) - May 2, 2017
Rectifiability of harmonic measure (Sasha Volberg, Michigan State University) - May 2, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Ádám Gyenge, University of British Columbia ) - May 2, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - May 2, 2017
Super-isolated elliptic curves and abelian surfaces in cryptography (Travis Scholl, University of Washington) - May 2, 2017
Jump diffusions and Feynman-Kac transforms (Lidan Wang, University of Washington) - May 1, 2017
Nonparaxial near-nondiffracting accelerating optical beams ( Ting Zhou, Northeastern University) - April 28, 2017
Inverse problems in Bose-Einstein Condensates (Ru-Yu Lai, University of Minnesota) - April 28, 2017
Inverse Problems and Harry Potter's Cloak (Gunther Uhlmann) - April 27, 2017
Here we go, again: the Almgren frequency function, or, yet another inductively-refined covering argument (Sean McCurdy, University of Washington) - April 27, 2017
Rhombic tilings and Bott-Samelson varieties (Escobar Vega, Laura, UIUC) - April 26, 2017
A QCQP Approach for Triangulation (Andrew Pryhuber, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington) - April 25, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - April 25, 2017
Boundary rigidity and the local inverse problem for the geodesic X-ray transform on tensors (Andras Vasy, Stanford) - April 24, 2017
A third-moment theorem and precise asymptotics for variations of stationary Gaussian sequences (Frederi Viens, Michigan State University) - April 24, 2017
Optimization and complexity (Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy) - April 20, 2017
A Gröbner basis for the graph of the reciprocal plane (Alex Fink, Queen Mary University of London) - April 19, 2017
CORE Series: Catalyst, Generic Acceleration Scheme for Gradient-based Optimization (Zaid Harchaoui, Department of Statistics, University of Washington) - April 18, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - April 18, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Jacob Lurie (Harvard)) - April 18, 2017
Anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions and Ichino's formula (Dan Collins, University of British Columbia) - April 18, 2017
Pestov identities for generalized X-ray transforms (Joonas Ilmavirta, University of Jyvaskyla) - April 17, 2017
Shuffling cards by spatial motion (Soumik Pal, University of Washington) - April 17, 2017
Loop Loewner Energy and its root invariance (Yilin Wang, Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris) - April 13, 2017
CORE Series: Interpretable Prediction Models for Network-Linked Data (Liza Levina, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan) - April 11, 2017
On number of collisions of billiard balls (Chris Burdzy, UW) - April 11, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar - April 11, 2017
AAG Seminar: Luigi Lombardi (Stony Brook) - April 11, 2017
AAG Pre-Seminar: Luigi Lombardi (Stony Brook) (Luigi Lombardi (Stony Brook)) - April 11, 2017
Inverse problems for nonlinear hyperbolic equations in space-time (Yiran Wang, University of Washington) - April 10, 2017
Renewing Fleming-Viot-type particle system (Tvrtko Tadic, Microsoft) - April 10, 2017
The Hyperbolic Geometry of Irrational Numbers (Samantha Fairchild, University of Washington) - April 6, 2017
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Maksym Fedorchuk (BC)) - April 4, 2017
The Big Ell monodromy of families of G-covers (Lalit Jain, University of Michigan) - April 4, 2017
The Calderon Problem for the Fractional Schroedinger Equation (Tuhin Ghosh, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) - April 3, 2017
Long term behaviour of self-interacting diffusions (Carl-Erik Gauthier, University of Washington) - April 3, 2017
A brief introduction to spectral graph theory (John Urschel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - March 28, 2017
Conformally Invariant Measures on Simple Loops (Stéphane Benoist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - March 28, 2017
Small Quantum Groups Associated to Belavin-Drinfeld Triples (Cris Negron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - March 28, 2017
Primes in short intervals on curves over finite fields (Efrat Bank, University of Michigan) - March 28, 2017
Walsh Diffusions (Andrey Sarantsev, University of California at Santa Barbara) - March 27, 2017
Local Convergence Rates of a Gauss-Newton Method for Convex Compositions (Abe Engle, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington) - March 14, 2017
A tale of two polynomials (Jarod Alper, University of Washington) - March 9, 2017
Extremal Length and Conformal Welding (Peter Lin, University of Washington) - March 9, 2017
Intersecting Families of Permutations (Michelle Delcourt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - March 8, 2017
Stability in the homology of configuration spaces (Jenny Wilson, Stanford) - March 7, 2017
Duality in convex optimization, via perturbation arguments (Kellie Macphee, University of Washington) - March 2, 2017
A crystal structure on shifted tableaux, with applications to type B Schubert curves (Maria Gillespie, UC Davis) - March 1, 2017
Unlikely Intersections in families of abelian varieties (Laura Capuano, Oxford) - February 28, 2017
Intro to random graphs and their connections with random matrices (Ioana Dumitriu, University of Washington) - February 23, 2017
NOT theory (not knot theory) (Chris Bishop, SUNY Stony Brook) - February 23, 2017
Confluence and near-confluence (Jim Propp, University of Massachusetts Lowell) - February 22, 2017
Number balancing is as hard as Minkowski’s theorem (Rebecca Hoberg, University of Washington) - February 21, 2017
Boundedness of Calabi-Yau pairs (Gabriele Di Cerbo (Columbia)) - February 21, 2017
TBA (Lynn Chua, UC Berkeley) - February 14, 2017
Conformal laminations and trees (Steffen Rohde, University of Washington) - February 14, 2017
On the Existence of Tableaux with Given Modular Major Index (Josh Swanson, University of Washington) - February 8, 2017
TBA (Matt Gursky, University of Notre Dame) - February 8, 2017
Strong Metric Subregularity (Asen Dontchev, Mathematical Reviews and University of Michigan) - February 7, 2017
Deformation Cones for Polytopes (Federico Castillo, UC Davis) - February 1, 2017
Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization: Let’s get crazy! - January 31, 2017
Conformal Growth Rates and Spectral Geometry on Unimodular Random Graphs (James Lee, University of Washington) - January 31, 2017
Stability and Chern class inequalities for log-minimal pairs (Behrouz Taji (Freiburg/Northwestern)) - January 31, 2017
K-Theory and Monodromy of Schubert Curves - January 25, 2017
Boij-Söderberg Theory for Grassmannians (Jake Levinson (University of Michigan)) - January 24, 2017
Ralph Greenberg, UW - January 24, 2017
Chromatic numbers of stable Kneser hypergraphs - January 18, 2017
Representing the Positive Semidefinite Cone using the Second Order Cone - January 17, 2017
Reversibility of the Loewner energy (Yilin Wang, ETH Zurich) - January 17, 2017
Random walk on unipotent groups - January 12, 2017
Greg Warrington, University of Vermont - January 11, 2017
How round are the complementary components of planar Brownian motion? - January 9, 2017
Affine Lines Over Derivators (John Zhang (UCLA)) - December 13, 2016
Comparing Return Probabilities - December 5, 2016
Sub-critical Stochastic Partial Differential Equations - November 28, 2016
Controlled Diffusion on Graphs - November 21, 2016
Two Clustering Problems For The Stochastic Block Model - November 14, 2016
Compactness and Large Deviations - October 31, 2016
A Law of the Iterated Logarithm for Grenander's Estimator - October 24, 2016
Boundary Trace of a Class of Diffusion Processes - October 17, 2016
Local Universality of Roots of Random Polynomials - October 10, 2016
Infinite Systems of Competing Brownian Particles - October 3, 2016

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