Department of Mathematics, < Fall 2019 >  

• Tuesday, August 27, 2019, 3:15pm, Meeting
  Jonathan Mattingly (), Math Departmental meeting

• Wednesday, August 28, 2019, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Melody Chan (Brown University, Mathematics), Algebraic and tropical moduli spaces   [abstract]

• Friday, August 30, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math and Analysis
  Robin Neumayer (IAS), Stability properties for functional and geometric inequalities and their applications   [abstract]

• Friday, August 30, 2019, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry
  Luca Schaffler (U Mass), Compactifications of moduli of points and lines in P²   [abstract]

• Monday, September 2, 2019, 3:15pm, Geometry Seminar
  Natalia Kolokolnikova (UNC), Thom polynomial and its K-theoretic generalization   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, September 4, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Yian Ma (Google/UCSD), Bridging MCMC and Optimization   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, September 6, 2019, 11:45am, Data Dialogue
  Gene Ferruzza (Valassis), Gene Ferruzza, Valassis   [abstract]

• Friday, September 6, 2019, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Tony Feng (MIT, Mathematics), Steenrod operations and the Artin-Tate pairing   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, September 9, 2019, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Akos Nagy (Duke University, Mathematics), Complex monopoles   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 12, 2019, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Danny Nam (Princeton), The contact process on random trees and graphs   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 12, 2019, 4:30pm, MLBytes Workshop
  Mark Ritter (IBM), Mark Ritter, IBM   [abstract]

• Friday, September 13, 2019, 11:45am, Data Dialogue
  Jessilyn Dunn (Duke BME), Jessilyn Dunn, Duke BME   [abstract]

• Friday, September 13, 2019, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Eric Larson (Stanford University, Mathematics), The Maximal Rank Conjecture   [abstract]

• Monday, September 16, 2019, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Diana Davis (Swarthmore College, Mathematics), Periodic paths on the pentagon   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, September 18, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Zoran Grujic (University of Virginia), Asymptotic criticality of the Navier-Stokes regularity problem   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 19, 2019, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Jiaming Xu (Fuqua), Spectral graph matching and regularized quadratic relaxations   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 19, 2019, 4:30pm, MLBytes Workshop
  Satanjeev Banerjee (Software Engineer Research, Twitte), Satanjeev Banerjee, Software Engineer Research, Twitter   [abstract]

• Friday, September 20, 2019, 11:45am, Data Dialogue
  Arjun Devrarjan, Visnu Menon (Toucan AI), Arjun Devrarjan, Visnu Menon (Toucan AI)   [abstract]

• Friday, September 20, 2019, 2:00pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Alexander Dunn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Moments of half integral weight modular L–functions, bilinear forms and applications   [abstract]

• Friday, September 20, 2019, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Matt Baker (Georgia Tech, Mathematics), The Moduli Space of Matroids   [abstract]

• Monday, September 23, 2019, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Yuan Gao (Duke University), Static/quasi-static/dynamic models of dislocations: wellposedness and exponential convergence to equilibrium   [abstract]

• Monday, September 23, 2019, 3:15pm, Geometry Seminar
  Colleen Robles (Duke U), A refinement of the Lefschetz decomposition for hyperkahler manifolds   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Tingran Gao (University of Chicago), Multi-Representation Manifold Learning on Fibre Bundles   [abstract]

• Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 3:15pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Veronica Ciocanel (Ohio State University), Stochastic and continuum dynamics in cellular transport   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 26, 2019, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Pratima Hebbar (Duke), Branching diffusion processes in periodic media   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 26, 2019, 4:30pm, MLBytes Workshop
  John Bralich (Infinia ML), John Bralich, Infinia ML   [abstract]

• Friday, September 27, 2019, 11:45am, Data Dialogue
  Kelsey Sumner (UNC Epidemiology), Kelsey Sumner, UNC Epidemiology   [abstract]

• Friday, September 27, 2019, 12:00pm, Mathematics Colloquium Seminar
  Maryanthe Malliaris (University of Chicago), Model theory and complexity   [abstract]

• Friday, September 27, 2019, 1:30pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Amy Goldberg (Duke University, Evolutionary Anthropology), Mechanistic models of genetic admixture   [abstract]

• Friday, September 27, 2019, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Chenglong Yu (U Penn), Moduli of symmetric cubic fourfolds and nodal sextic curves   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, September 30, 2019, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Alex Watson (Duke University), Edge states and topological insulators beyond periodic structures   [abstract]

• Monday, September 30, 2019, 3:15pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Caitlin Leverson (Georgia Tech), DGA Representations, Ruling Polynomials, and the Colored HOMFLY-PT Polynomial   [abstract]

• Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 5:00pm,
  Astrid Giugni (), Computational Humanities Reading Group   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Xiaochuan Tian (UT Austin), Analysis and computation of nonlocal models   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 3:15pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Franca Hoffmann (Caltech), Gradient Flows: From PDE to Data Analysis.   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 4:30pm,
  Collin Cooke (), ML@Duke Seminar   [abstract]

• Thursday, October 3, 2019, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Xiaoqian (Dana) Yang (Duke, Fuqua), An MCMC method with rapid mixing   [abstract]

• Friday, October 4, 2019, 11:45am, Data Dialogue
  Tim Sell (K-Lab), Tim Sell (K-Lab)   [abstract]

• Friday, October 4, 2019, 12:00pm, Mathematics Colloquium Seminar
  Hongkai Zhao (University of California, Irvine), Intrinsic complexity: from approximation of random vectors and random fields to solutions of PDEs   [abstract]

• Friday, October 4, 2019, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Jaehyun Hong (Korea Institute for Advanced Study), Rigidity of Schubert varieties in rational homogeneous manifolds of Picard number one   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Joan Bruna (NYU), On (provably) Learning with Large Neural Networks   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Isabel Vogt (Stanford University / University of Washington, Mathematics), Low degree points on curves   [abstract]

• Thursday, October 10, 2019, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Sayan Banerjee (UNC), Non-parametric change point detection in growing networks   [abstract]

• Friday, October 11, 2019, 11:45am, Data Dialogue
  Tommy Lin (pondr), Tommy Lin (pondr)   [abstract]

• Friday, October 11, 2019, 12:00pm, Frontiers in Mathematics Seminar
  Jessica Fintzen (), Frontiers in Mathematics Lecture 1: Representations of p-adic groups   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, October 11, 2019, 1:30pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Inmaculada Sorribes (Duke University, Mathematics), Gliomas Diagnosis, Progress, and Treatment: A Mathematical Approach   [abstract]

• Friday, October 11, 2019, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Chen Wan (MIT), Local Multiplicity for Spherical Varieties   [abstract]

• Monday, October 14, 2019, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Tom Bachmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mathematics), Euler numbers in A^1-homotopy theory   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Shahar Kovalsky (Duke University, Mathematics), Planar surface embeddings and non-convex harmonic maps   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 3:15pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Mihaela Ifrim (UW-Madison), Long time dynamics for two dimensional water waves   [abstract]

• Thursday, October 17, 2019, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Mackenzie Simper (Stanford statistics), Random Additions in Urns of Integers   [abstract]

• Friday, October 18, 2019, 11:45am, Data Dialogue
  Peter Baumgartner (RTI), Peter Baumgartner (RTI)   [abstract]

• Friday, October 18, 2019, 1:30pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Stefano Di Talia (Duke University, Cell Biology), Cell cycle synchronization in early Drosophila embryos   [abstract]

• Friday, October 18, 2019, 3:15pm, Frontiers in Mathematics Seminar
  Jessica Fintzen (University of Cambridge), Lecture 2: From representations of p-adic groups to congruences of automorphic forms   [abstract]

• Monday, October 21, 2019, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Jonathan Campbell (Duke University), Hilbert's Generalized Third Problem and the Algebraic K-theory of Fields   [abstract]

• Monday, October 21, 2019, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Casey Lynn Kelleher (Princeton), Gap and index estimates for Yang-Mills and harmonic map theory   [abstract]

• Monday, October 21, 2019, 4:30pm, Public Lectures Seminar
  Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University, Mathematics), PLUM: A mathematician goes to court: Understanding Gerrymandering   [abstract]

• Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 11:45am, Special Seminar in Machine Learning and Optimization Optimization methods for inverse problems
  Carlos Fernandez-Granda (Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science), The times they are a-changin   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Boris Khesin (U of Toronto), Beyond Arnold’s geodesic framework of an ideal hydrodynamics   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 3:15pm, Frontiers In Mathematics Seminar
  Lisa Piccirillo (Brandeis University / Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Knot concordance and 4-manifolds   [abstract]

• Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:45am,
  Jean-Francois Chamberland (Texas A&M), Sensing, Signals, and Communication Seminar with Jean-Francois Chamberland, Texas A&M   [abstract]

• Thursday, October 24, 2019, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Lingfu Zhang (Princeton), Constructing extremal stationary distributions for the Voter Model in $d\geq 3$ as factors of IID   [abstract]

• Thursday, October 24, 2019, 4:30pm, MLBytes Workshop
  Alex Sigman & Kabir Seth (Dow Jones), Alex Sigman & Kabir Seth, Dow Jones   [abstract]

• Friday, October 25, 2019, 9:00am, Data Dialogue
  Jascha Swisher (Laboratory of Analytic Sciences), Jascha Swisher, Laboratory of Analytic Sciences   [abstract]

• Friday, October 25, 2019, 12:00pm, Frontiers In Mathematics Seminar
  Lisa Piccirillo (Brandeis University / Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Knot traces and PL embeddings   [abstract]

• Friday, October 25, 2019, 1:30pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Jeffrey West (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Integrated Mathematical Oncology), Tissue structure accelerates evolution: premalignant sweeps precede neutral expansion   [abstract]

• Friday, October 25, 2019, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Yunqing Tang (Princeton University), Picard ranks of reductions of K3 surfaces over global fields   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, October 25, 2019, 3:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar, special SIAM-AWM Graduate Student Talk
  Jessica Leete (Duke University, Mathematics), Determining Risk Factors for Triple Whammy Acute Kidney Injury: Sex-specific Modeling and Analysis   [abstract]

• Monday, October 28, 2019, 3:15pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Tom Hockenhull (University of Glasgow, Mathematics), Koszul duality and Knot Floer homology   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Yu-Min Chung (UNC), Summaries of persistence diagrams and their applications   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 3:15pm, Mathematics Colloquium Seminar
  Sarah Koch (University of Michigan), Exploring moduli spaces in complex dynamics   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, October 31, 2019, 3:00pm, Graduate-Sponsored Colloquium
  Jacob Lurie (IAS, Mathematics), A Gentle Introduction to Crystalline Cohomology   [abstract]

• Friday, November 1, 2019, 11:45am, Data Dialogue
  Kevin Branin, Rodrigo Silva (IBM), Kevin Branin, Rodrigo Silva (IBM)   [abstract]

• Friday, November 1, 2019, 1:30pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  James Alvarez (Duke University, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology), Adaptation and selection during residual disease and tumor recurrence   [abstract]

• Friday, November 1, 2019, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Jacob Lurie (IAS), A Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence in Characteristic p   [abstract]

• Monday, November 4, 2019, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Mo Zhou (Duke University), Solving eigenvalue problem using neural network   [abstract]

• Monday, November 4, 2019, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Daniel Stern (University of Toronto), Scalar curvature and circle-valued harmonic maps   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 11:45am,
  Allen Tannenbaum (), Special Lecture on Math+Data+Health and Beyond   [abstract]

• Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Jeff Calder (University of Minnesota), Nonlinear PDEs and graph-based learning   [abstract]

• Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 3:30pm, Machine Learning Seminar
  Jason Xu (Assistant Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University), Likelihood-based Inference for Stochastic Epidemic Models with application to High-resolution Contact Tracking Data   [abstract]

• Thursday, November 7, 2019, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Souvik Dhara (MIT), A new universality class for critical percolation on networks with heavy-tailed degrees   [abstract]

• Thursday, November 7, 2019, 4:30pm, MLBytes Workshop
  Leslie DeJesus (), Leslie DeJesus   [abstract]

• Friday, November 8, 2019, 11:45am, Data Dialogue
  Rajneesh Patil (Iqvia), Rajneesh Patil (Iqvia)   [abstract]

• Friday, November 8, 2019, 1:30pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Jim Nolen and Daniel Lew (, Mathematics (Nolan) and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology (Lew)), Ratiometric signaling and directional sensing in yeast   [abstract]

• Friday, November 8, 2019, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Sarah J Frei (U Oregon), Moduli spaces of sheaves on K3 surfaces and Galois representations   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 11, 2019, 3:15pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Arunima Ray (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics), Yet another proof that Alexander polynomial one knots are topologically slice   [abstract]

• Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Theodore Drivas (Princeton University), An example of anomalous dissipation for passive scalars   [abstract]

• Thursday, November 14, 2019, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Greg Lawler (Chicago), Recent advances on the loop-erased walk   [abstract]

• Friday, November 15, 2019, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Mariana Smit Vega Garcia (Western Washington University), Analysis and geometry of free boundaries: recent developments   [abstract]

• Friday, November 15, 2019, 1:30pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Marc D. Ryser (, Population Health Sciences and Mathematics), Cancer overdiagnosis – a discourse on population health, biologic mechanism and statistics   [abstract]

• Friday, November 15, 2019, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Yun Shi (), On motivic Donaldson-Thomas theory on the local projective plane   [abstract]

• Monday, November 18, 2019, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Gabe Earle (Duke University), Stratified MCMC Sampling for Non-Reversible Dynamics   [abstract]

• Monday, November 18, 2019, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Aleksander Doan (Columbia/Cambridge), Counting embedded curves in symplectic 6-manifolds   [abstract]

• Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 3:15pm, Frontiers In Mathematics Seminar
  Stefan Steinerberger (Yale University), Designs: a fun Mix of Analysis, Combinatorics and Graph/Number/Spectral Theory   [abstract]

• Thursday, November 21, 2019, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Vincent Conitzer (, Computer Science, Economics and Philosophy), Probabilistic reasoning and decision theory under imperfect recall   [abstract]

• Friday, November 22, 2019, 11:45am, Data Dialogue
  Daniel Egger (Executive in Residence, Duke Master of Engineering Management Program), Daniel Egger, Executive in Residence, Duke Master of Engineering Management Program   [abstract]

• Friday, November 22, 2019, 12:00pm, Frontiers In Mathematics Seminar
  Stefan Steinerberger (Yale University), Wasserstein Distance between Point Sets and the Lebesgue Measure   [abstract]

• Friday, November 22, 2019, 1:30pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Renee Brady (Moffitt Cancer Center, Integrated Mathematical Oncology), Forecasting Cancer: Predicting Individual Responses to Intermittent Androgen Deprivation Therapy in Prostate Cancer   [abstract]

• Friday, November 22, 2019, 3:15pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Max Lieblich (, University of Washington), Topological reconstruction theorems for algebraic varieties   [abstract]

• Monday, November 25, 2019, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Shubham Dwivedi (University of Waterloo, Pure Mathematics), Geometric flows of $G_2$ structures   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 12:00pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Simon Brendle (Columbia), The isoperimetric inequality on a minimal surface   [abstract]

• Monday, December 2, 2019, 3:15pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Maggie Miller (Princeton University, Mathematics), Concordance of light bulbs   [abstract]

• Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 3:15pm, Faculty Meeting
  Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University, Mathematics), Department Faculty Meeting   [abstract]

• Thursday, December 5, 2019, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Zoe Huang (Duke), The contact process on Galton-Watson trees   [abstract]

• Friday, December 6, 2019, 1:30pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  William Duncan (Duke University, Mathematics), Homeostasis-Bifurcation Singularities and Hepatic Lipid Dynamic   [abstract]

• Friday, December 6, 2019, 2:00pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Eyal Goren (McGill University), p-adic dynamics of Hecke operators on modular curves   [abstract]

• Friday, December 13, 2019, 12:15pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Casey Rodriguez (MIT), The Radiative Uniqueness Conjecture for Bubbling Wave Maps   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, December 16, 2019, 12:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Oanh Nguyen (Princeton University), Real roots of random functions   [abstract]