UW-PIMS Colloquium
UW-PIMS Colloquium
UW-PIMS Colloquium events are sponsored by the UW Department of Mathematics and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.
Past Events
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington) -
- Harmonic Functions and Beyond (YanYan Li, Rutgers University) -
- Seeing the forest for the trees (Anna Gilbert, Yale University) -
- Stable polynomials and Fourier quasicrystals (Cynthia Vinzant, University of Washington) -
- Elliptic integrals, modular forms, and the Weierstrass zeta-function (Mario Bonk, University of California, Los Angeles) -
- Reconstructing simplicial polytopes from partial information (Isabella Novik, University of Washington) -
- The local-global conjecture for Apollonian circle packings is false (Katherine E. Stange (University of Colorado, Boulder)) -
- Hitting the High-D(imensional) Notes: Stochastic Gradient Descent Learning Dynamics (Courtney Paquette (McGill University)) -
- Local to global principles in orbits, and applications (Alex Kontorovich (Rutgers University)) -
- When do varieties map to each other? (Mihnea Popa (Harvard University)) -
- Intersection theory of moduli spaces of curves (Hannah Larson (University of California, Berkeley)) -
- Uniformity in Diophantine Geometry (Lars Kühne, University of Copenhagen) -
- Group actions, algebra up to homotopy, and flavors of commutativity (Mike Hill, University of California, Los Angeles) -
- Geometry of surface group homomorphisms (Emily Dumas, University of Illinois at Chicago) -
- On Unirationality of hypersurfaces (Roya Beheshti Zavareh, Washington University in St. Louis) -
- Take a residue, leave a residue (Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University) -
- Ramsey graphs and additive combinatorics without addition (Jacob Fox, Stanford University) -
- Localization Schemes: A Framework for proving mixing bounds in Markov chains (Ronen Eldan, Microsoft Research) -
- Renormalized Volume and Area for Poincaré-Einstein Spaces (Robin Graham, University of Washington) -
- Algorithms for optimization, inference, sampling of random probability measures (Andrea Montanari, Stanford University) -
- Expressive curves (Sergey Fomin, University of Michigan) -
- The underlying topology of data (Jose Perea, Northeastern University) -
- Understanding graphs locally (Annie Raymond, UMass Amherst) -
- Equiangular lines and eigenvalue multiplicities (Yufei Zhao, MIT) -
- Rigidity and uniformity and algebraic dynamics (Laura DeMarco, Harvard) -
- Gradeless: Grade Less; Teach More (Ileanu Vasu, Holyoke Community College) -
- Infinite-type surfaces (Priyam Patel, University of Utah) -
- A Discussion of a Generalization of the Multilinear Kakeya Theorem (Bobby Wilson, UW) -
- How to Obfuscate Computer Programs Mathematically? (Rachel Lin, UW) -
- Curvature flows toward optimal geometric inequalities (Pengfei Guan, McGill University) -
- Nonlinear PDEs in Lagrangian geometry (Arunima Bhattacharya, UW) -
- Some examples of homological mirror symmetry (Heather Lee) -
- Geometric realization of cyclically branched covers over spheres (Dami Lee) -
- New Postdoc Quick Introductions (Sheela Devadas, Lijun Ding, Tim Duff, Andrea Ottolini, Hadrian Quan, and Xueying Yu, UW) -
- Hidden Figures, Service Learning, and Mathematical Community (Ranthony Edmonds, Ohio State) -
- Machine Problem Solving (Daniel Selsam, Microsoft Research) -
- Mathematics Teacher Performance Assessments Across Contexts (Elese Washines, Program manager for the Yakama Nation Higher Education Program) -
- PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (John Baez, University of California, Riverside) -
- PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (Lauren Williams, Harvard University) -
- PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (Ben Green, University of Oxford) -
- Strongly Rayleigh Distributions and a (slightly) Improved Approximation algorithm for Metric TSP (Shayan Oveis Gharan, University of Washington) -
- CANCELED: PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University) -
- Variational Analysis and Optimization (Tyrell Rockafellar, University of Washington) -
- Systems biology approaches in infectious disease and cell biology (John Aitchison, Center for Global Infectious Disease at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington) -
- COVID Math: trailing indicators, leading indicators, math models, and stats models (Abraham Flaxman, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) -
- CANCELED: Symmetries of shift systems (Bryna Kra, Northwestern University) -
- 3264 Conics in A Second (Bernd Sturmfels, MPI Leipzig / UC Berkeley) -
- Mathematical sense and nonsense outside the classroom: How well are we preparing our students to tell the difference? (Robert Megginson, University of Michigan) -
- On $C^{2,\alpha}$ estimates for levels sets of Allen-Cahn equation (Jun-Cheng Wei, University of British Columbia) -
- Graph Density Inequalities and Sums of Squares (Rekha Thomas, University of Washington) -
- Heights and moments of abelian varieties (Farbod Shokrieh, University of Washington) -
- Recent progress in birational geometry in positive characteristics (Christopher Hacon, University of Utah) -
- A Year at Google Research (Jake Levinson, University of Washington) -
- The Amazing Power of Dimensional Analysis in Finance: Market Impact and the Intraday Trading Invariance Hypothesis (Walter Schachermayer, University of Vienna) -
- PIMS Hugh C. Morris Lecture: Conditional Expectation and Calderón-Zygmund Operators (Rodrigo Bañuelos, Purdue University) -
- Topology in neuroscience: some examples from neural coding and neural networks (Carina Curto, Penn State University) -
- Progress on Kahler-Ricci flow (Gang Tian, Peking University) -
- Lagrange's Identity and Apportionment of the U. S. House of Representatives (Tommy Wright, US Census Bureau) -
- The stability of Kerr-de Sitter space and global analysis (András Vasy, Stanford University) -
- Geometry of the Phase Retrieval Problem (Charles Epstein, University of Pennsylvania) -
- Nonlinear detection of connections (Gabriel Paternain, University of Cambridge) -
- Equations and Algebraic Geometry in Groups and Algebras (Olga Kharlampovich, Hunter College CUNY) -
- Ranks, lines, progressions, and sets (Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin–Madison) -
- Patterns in Standard Young Tableaux (Sara Billey, University of Washington) -
- What is the shape of a rational map? (Sarah Koch, University of Michigan) -
- Fifty years in mathematics: A minority perspective (William Vélez, University of Arizona) -
- From lecture to active learning: Rewards for all, and is it really so difficult? (David Pengelley, Oregon State University) -
- The large-scale geometry of the Hitchin moduli space (Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University) -
- Coloring maps on surfaces (Ian Agol, UC Berkeley) -
- 5 points on the sphere (Richard Schwartz, Brown University) -
- How to remedy unintended bias: “Stop it!” vs. “Document it” (Anthony Greenwald, University of Washington) -
- Applications of functoriality (Emily Riehl, Johns Hopkins University) -
- Using Mathematics to Unlock Biological Mysteries (Candice Price, University of San Diego) -
- Mathematical Adventures with Knitting Machines (Fabienne Serriere, KnitYak.com) -
- Using mathematics to fight cancer (Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College) -
- Toroidal Belyĭ pairs, Toroidal graphs, and their monodromy groups (Edray Goins, Purdue University) -
- Optimal transportation between unequal dimensions (Robert McCann, University of Toronto) -
- Equidistribution of Shapes of Number Fields of degree 3, 4, and 5 (Piper Harron, University of Hawaii at Manoa) -
- T-duality and Mirror Symmetry (Mohammed Abouzaid, Columbia University) -
- [Video] Of Triangles, Gases, Prices and Men (Cédric Villani, Institut Henri Poincaré & Université de Lyon) -
- Scattering by the sphere (Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley) -
- Tamagawa Numbers and Factorization Homology (Jacob Lurie, Harvard University) -
- Isometric Embedding of 2-dim Riemannian Manifolds in Euclidean 3-Space (Qing Han, University of Notre Dame) -
- [Video] On the Approximation of Laplacian Eigenvalues in Graph Disaggregation (John Urschel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -
- Quantum Symmetry (Chelsea Walton, Temple University) -
- Poset topology meets combinatorial representation theory (Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University) -
- Alex Wright from Stanford University -
- Renzo Cavalieri from Colorado State University -
- Steven Lalley from University of Chicago -
- Frank Farris from Santa Clara University -
- June Huh from Princeton University -
- Katherine E. Stange from University of Colorado, Boulder -
- Dusa McDuff from Barnard College -
- Brian Conrad from Stanford University -
- Jennifer McLoud-Mann from University of Washington, Bothell -
- Sham M. Kakade from University of Washington -
- Ivan Corwin from Columbia University and the Clay Mathematics Institute -
- [Video] Amnon Yekutieli from Ben Gurion University -
- Catherine Williams, Chief Data Scientist at AppNexus -
- Michelle Wachs from University of Miami -
- Lauren Williams from University of California, Berkeley -
- Mark Rudelson from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor -
- Andrea R. Nahmod from University of Massachusetts Amherst -
- Christopher D. Hacon from The University of Utah -
- Marianna Csörnyei from The University of Chicago -
- Ravi Ramakrishna from Cornell University -
- Gene Abrams from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs -
- Shige Peng from Shandong University -
- Victor Reiner from University of Minnesota -
- Dan Spielman from Yale Institute for Network Science (Joint Math/CSE Colloquim and CORE Seminar) -
- Steffen Rohde from University of Washington -
- Roman Bezrukavnikov from Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
- Dan Shumow from Senior SDE at Microsoft Research -
- Neal Koblitz from University of Washington -
- Bianca Viray from Brown University -
- Wei Ho from Columbia University -
- [Video] Gil Kalai from Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem -
- [Video] Greg Blekherman from Georgia Institute of Technology -
- [Video] Yuval Peres, Principal Researcher and Theory Group Manager at Microsoft Research -
- [Video] S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan from New York University's Courant Institute -
- [Video] Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Data Scientist at Johnson Research Labs -
- [Video] Gerald Folland from University of Washington -
- Exotic spheres and topological modular forms (Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -
- [Video] Thomas Rothvoss from Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
- Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy from Cornell University -
- Katya Krupchyk from University of Helsinki -
- [Video] Fredrik Viklund from Columbia University -
- Reinier Bröker from Brown University -
- [Video] Mathias Drton from UW Statistics Department -
- [Video] Max Warshauer from Texas State University -
- [Video] Matthew Kahle from Ohio State University -
- [Video] Bruce Reznick from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -
- [Video] Christopher Hacon from University of Utah -
- [Video] Jonathan Brundan from University of Oregon -
- [Video] Edward Witten from Institute for Advanced Study -
- [Video] Kristin Lauter from Microsoft Research and University of Washington -
- [Video] On the Topology of Black Holes (Greg Galloway, University of Miami) -
- [Video] Two Needles in Exponential Haystacks (Joel Spencer, New York University) -
- The Static and Stochastic Ising Models (Eyal Lubetzky, Microsoft Research and UW) -
- From Hilbert's 17th Problem to Polynomial Optimization and Convex Algebraic Geometry (Rekha Thomas, University of Washington) -
- Testing the Manifold Hypothesis (Hariharan Narayanan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -
- [Video] The Critical Probability of Percolation: Percolation on Self-Dual Polygon Configurations (Béla Bollobás, University of Cambridge, University of Memphis, and Microsoft ) -
- [Video] A Survey of Alternating Permutations (Richard Stanley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -
- Birational Classification of Algebraic Varieties (Christopher Hacon, University of Utah) -
- [Video] Potential Theory Meets Geometric Measure Theory (Tatiana Toro, University of Washington) -
- The Geometry of Reimann's Theta Functions (Sebastian Casalaina-Martin, University of Colorado, Boulder) -
- [Video] Quasirandom Processes (Jim Propp, University of Massachusetts Lowell) -
- [Video] The Optimization Work of Paul Tseng (Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo, University of Minnesota) -
- [Video] Generalizing the Cross Ratio: The Moduli Space of n Points on the Projective Line Up to Projective Equivalence (Ravi Vakil, Stanford University) -
- [Video] Weak Solution Concepts for Nonlinear Elliptic PDE and Associated Regularity (Neil Trudinger, Australian National University) -
- [Video] Issues in Multivariate Polynomial Interpolation (Carl de Boor, University of Wisconsin and UW (affiliate) ) -
- [Video] Growth Rates and Explosions in Sandpiles (Lionel Levine, M.I.T. and Microsoft Research ) -
- [Video] Random Sorting Networks (Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia & Microsoft Research) -
- [Video] Cloaking and Transformation Optics (Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington) -
- [Video] Character Formulas (Bill Fulton, University of Michigan ) -
- Shuffling Cards and Adding Numbers (Persi Diaconis, Stanford University) -