Department of Mathematics, < Fall 2018 >  

• Monday, September 3, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Faramarz Vafaee (Duke University, Mathematics), Floer homology and Dehn surgery   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, September 4, 2018, 12:00pm, Department of Mathematics Seminar
  Kirsten Wickelgren (Georgia Tech), An arithmetic count of the lines on a cubic surface   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, September 4, 2018, 3:15pm, Department of Mathematics Seminar
  Joseph Rabinoff (Georgia Tech), From Diophantine equations to p-adic analytic geometry   [abstract]

• Wednesday, September 5, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Mengdi Wang (Princeton University), Primal-Dual Pi Learning Using State and Action Features   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, September 10, 2018, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Spencer Leslie, Jianfeng Lu, Ziva Myer, Sarah Schott, Alex Watson (), Job Search Panel [video]

• Monday, September 10, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Richard Hain (Duke University, Mathematics), Hodge theory and the Goldman-Turaev Lie bialgebra   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 3:15pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Kui Ren (Columbia University), Inverse problems to system of diffusion equations with internal data   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, September 12, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Andrej Zlatos (University of California-San Diego), On Universal Mixers   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Alexander Cloninger (UC San Diego), Dual Geometry of Laplacian Eigenfunctions and Anisotropic Graph Wavelets   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Jayce Robert Getz (Duke), Summation formula for spherical varieties   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, September 20, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Carla Staver (), Stable coexistence of savannah and forest in a spatial model   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, September 21, 2018, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Humberto Diaz (University of California at Riverside), The Rost nilpotence principle   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 1:00pm, Undergraduate Talk
  Onkar Gurjal, Gary Zhou, Zhenhua Liu (Duke University, Mathematics Department), PRUV Interim Reports

• Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 4:30pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Matthew Stoffregen (M.I.T., Mathematics), Localization in Khovanov Homology   [abstract]

• Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Roman Shvydkoy (University of Illinois-Chicago), Topological models of emergent dynamics   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, September 27, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Yu-ting Chen (U of Tennessee, Knoxville), Mean-field diffusions in stochastic spatial death-birth models.   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, September 28, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Dana Mendelson (University of Chicago), Random data Cauchy theory for some nonlinear dispersive equations   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, October 1, 2018, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Chen An (), A Chebotarev density theorem for certain families of D_4-quartic fields   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, October 1, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Gavin Ball (Duke University, Mathematics), Quadratic closed G2-structures   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 11:40am, CTMS Adventures In Theory Lectures Seminar
  Christopher Jarzynski (University of Maryland, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Scaling Down the Laws of Thermodynamics   [abstract]

• Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Wencai Liu (University of California-Irvine), Spectral transitions for Schr\"odinger operators with decaying potentials and Laplacians on asymptotically flat (hyperbolic) manifolds   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Michael Lipnowski (McGill University, Mathematics), The Seiberg-Witten equations and the length spectrum of hyperbolic three-manifolds   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Jun Kitagawa (Michigan State University), Free discontinuity regularity and stability in optimal transport   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, October 4, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Erik Slivken (Paris Diderot), Pattern-avoiding permutations and Dyson Brownian motion   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, October 4, 2018, 3:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech), A proposal for nonabelian mirrors in two-dimensional theories   [abstract]

• Monday, October 8, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Laura Fredrickson (Stanford University, Mathematics), The asymptotic geometry of the Hitchin moduli space   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Ilse Ipsen (NC State University), An Introduction to Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, October 11, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Erika Berenice Roldan Roa (Ohio State), Asymptotic behavior of the homology of random polyominoes   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, October 15, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Alex Waldron (Michigan State University, Mathematics), Yang-Mills flow on special holonomy manifolds   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 3:00pm, CNCS Seminar
  Pedro Saenz (MIT, Mathematics), Spin lattices of walking droplets   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 3:30pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Adam Lowrance (Vassar College), Gordian distance and spectral sequences in Khovanov homology   [abstract]

• Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 4:45pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Min Hoon Kim (Korea Institute for Advanced Study), A family of freely sliced good boundary links   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Jiequn Han (Princeton University), Deep Learning-Based Numerical Methods for High-Dimensional Parabolic PDEs and Forward-Backward SDEs   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, October 18, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Lisa Hartung (Courant Institute), Extreme Level Sets of Branching Brownian Motion   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, October 18, 2018, 3:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Azeem Hasan (, CUNY), Graded Quivers, Toric Calabi Yaus and B-Branes   [abstract]

• Friday, October 19, 2018, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Michal Zydor (University of Michigan, Mathematics), Relative trace formula of Jacquet-Rallis, recent progress   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, October 22, 2018, 3:15pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Thomas Mark (University of Virginia, Mathematics), 3-manifolds not obtained by surgery on a knot   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Almut Burchard (U of Toronto), Geometry in Wasserstein Space: Geodesics, Gradients, and Curvature, from an Eulerian Point of View   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, October 26, 2018, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Remy van Dobben de Bruyn (Institute for Advanced Study), A variety that cannot be dominated by one that lifts.   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, October 29, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Anna Mazzucato (Pennsylvania State University), Optimal mixing and irregular transport by incompressible flows   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, October 29, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Sahana Balasubramanya (UNC Greensboro), Hyperbolic structures on wreath products   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Honghao Gao (Institut Fourier), Augmentations and sheaves for knot conormals   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Guillaume Bal (University of Chicago), Topological Insulators and obstruction to localization   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Jessica Fintzen (Michigan/Cambridge), Representations of p-adic groups   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, November 1, 2018, 12:00pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Bhargav Bhatt (University of Michigan), Interpolating p-adic cohomology theories   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, November 1, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Rick Durrett (), The Contact Process on random graphs and Galton-Waton trees   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, November 1, 2018, 3:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Laura Donnay (, Harvard), Black hole memory effect   [abstract]

• Friday, November 2, 2018, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Wei Ho (University of Michigan), Integral points on elliptic curves   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 5, 2018, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Nan Wu (), Locally Linear Embedding on Manifold with or Without Boundary   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 5, 2018, 3:15pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Hannah Schwartz (Bryn Mawr College, Mathematics), Using 2-torsion to obstruct topological isotopy   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 5, 2018, 4:30pm, Undergraduate Seminar Talk Seminar
  Daniel B. Neill (New York University, Mathematics Department), Machine Learning for Population Health and Disease Surveillance   [abstract]

• Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 3:30pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Alex Zupan (University of Nebraska, Mathematics), A special case of the Smooth 4-dimensional Poincare Conjecture   [abstract]

• Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Weijie Su (University of Pennsylvania), Taming the Devil of Gradient-based Optimization Methods with the Angel of Differential Equations   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Jiuya Wang (Duke), Inductive Method in Counting Number Fields   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, November 8, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Pascal Maillard (CRM (Montréal) and Université Paris-Sud), Interval fragmentations with choice   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, November 8, 2018, 3:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Prahar Mitra (, IAS), Asymptotic Symmetries and Soft Theorems in Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes   [abstract]

• Friday, November 9, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Noé Cuneo (Université Paris VII, Mathematics), Non-Equilibrium Steady States for Networks of Oscillators   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, November 9, 2018, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Benjamin Bakker (University of Georgia), o-minimal GAGA and applications to Hodge theory   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 12, 2018, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Aaron Pollack (), Modular forms on exceptional groups   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 12, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  David Duncan (James Madison University, Mathematics), The Chern-Simons invariants for general compact Lie groups   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 3:00pm, CNCS Seminar
  Peter Morse (Syracuse University, Physics), Generic failure in granular packings: finding the relationship between shear and random forces   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 3:30pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  John Baldwin (Boston College, Mathematics), Contact structures, instantons, and SU(2) representations   [abstract]

• Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Tom Beale (Duke University), Finite Difference Methods for Boundary Value Problems: Using Interface Problems   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Spencer Leslie (Duke), Whittaker functions and connections to crystal graphs   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, November 16, 2018, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Julie Rana (Lawrence University), Moduli of general type surfaces   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 19, 2018, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Erin Beckman (), The frog model on trees with drift   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 19, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Ina Petkova (Dartmouth College, Mathematics), Knot Floer homology and the gl(1|1) link invariant   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 26, 2018, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Siming He (), Suppression of Chemotactic blow-up through fluid flows   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 26, 2018, 3:15pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Lisa Piccirillo (University of Texas, Austin, Mathematics), The Conway knot is not slice   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  June Huh (IAS and Princeton), Standard conjectures for finite vector spaces   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, November 29, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Swee Hong Chan (), Random walks with local memory   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, November 30, 2018, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Rachel Howard (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute), Monitoring the systemic immune response to cancer therapy   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, November 30, 2018, 3:15pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Elina Robeva (MIT), Orthogonal Tensor Decomposition   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, December 3, 2018, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Rachel Levy (), Lunch with Professor Levy while having conversation BIG jobs guide   [abstract]

• Monday, December 3, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Curtis Porter (NCSU, Mathematics), Spinning Black Holes and CR 3-Folds   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, December 3, 2018, 4:30pm, Public Lectures Seminar
  Rachel Levy (MAA), PLUM: Mathematical Modeling from Kindergarten to Industry   [abstract]

• Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 1:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  David Morrison (UCSB), Degenerations of K3 Surfaces, Gravitational Instantons, and M-Theory   [abstract]

• Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Roberto I. Oliveira (IMPA), Estimating graph parameters via multiple random walks   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Ari Shnidman (Boston College), TBA [video]

• Thursday, December 6, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Kevin McGoff (UNC Charlotte), Gibbs posteriors and thermodynamics, Gibbs posterior convergence and the thermodynamic formalism   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, December 18, 2018, 12:00pm, Signal Processing/ECE Seminar
  Joao Morais Carreira Pereira (Princeton University), Estimation in multireference alignment and cryo-electron microscopy   [abstract]