Department of Mathematics, < Spring 2018 >  

• Friday, January 5, 2018, 12:00pm, Department of Mathematics Seminar
  Steven Sam (), Noetherianity in representation theory   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, January 11, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Wesley Pegden (Carnegie Mellon University), The fractal nature of the Abelian Sandpile   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 12:00pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Samit Dasgupta (UC Santa Cruz, Mathematics), Stark's Conjectures and Hilbert's 12th Problem   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, January 19, 2018, 12:00pm, Geometry/Topology Seminar
  Tristan Collins (Harvard University, Mathematics), Sasaki-Einstein metrics and K-stability   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, January 22, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Yat Tin Chow (UCLA), An algorithm for overcoming the curse of dimensionality in Hamilton-Jacobi equations   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, January 22, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Nan Wu (University of Toronto), Length of a shortest closed geodesic in manifolds of dimension 4   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 12:00pm, Department of Mathematics Seminar
  Troy Schaudt (Wolfram Research, Inc.), Mathematica 11 in Education and Research   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 4:30pm, Triangle Topology Seminar
  Mike Wong (Louisiana State University), Combinatorial invariants of transverse links via cyclic branched covers   [abstract]

• Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 3:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Tristan Buckmaster (Princeton University), Nonuniqueness of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equation   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, January 25, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  TBA (), TBA

• Monday, January 29, 2018, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Brendan Williamson (), When is it true? Creating assumptions to prove theorems.   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, January 29, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Mark Stern (Duke University), Monotonicity and Betti Number Bounds   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, January 29, 2018, 3:15pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Weilin Li (University of Maryland), Time-frequency Scattering Transforms and Applications   [abstract]

• Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Elina Robeva (MIT), Maximum Likelihood Density Estimation under Total Positivity   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 1, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar joint with the Center for Genomics and Computational Biology
  Geoffrey Schiebinger (Broad Institute), Analyzing Developmental Stochastic Processes with Optimal Transport   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 1, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Paul Bressloff (University of Utah, Mathematics), Stochastic models of intracellular transport: a PDE perspective   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 2, 2018, 2:00pm, Crowdmark presentation
  James Colliander (Crowdmark), Crowdmark presentation [video]

• Monday, February 5, 2018, 3:15pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Ju Sun (Stanford University), When Are Nonconvex Optimization Problems Not Scary?   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 8, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Dan Lacker (Columbia University), Probabilistic limit theory for mean field games   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, February 12, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Yu Wang (Northwestern University, Department of Mathematics), Quantitative stratification of stationary Yang-Mills and recent progress on global gauge problem   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 3:30pm, CTMS Adventures In Theory Lectures Seminar
  Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland), Emergent behavior in self-organized dynamics: from consensus to hydrodynamic flocking   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland), Multi-scale construction of solutions to problems with critical regularity   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 15, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Govind Menon (Brown University), Stochastic Loewner evolution with branching and the Dyson superprocess   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 15, 2018, 4:00pm, String Theory Seminar
  Amihay Hanany (Imperial College), The Small E[8] Instanton and the Kraft Procesi Transition   [abstract]

• Friday, February 16, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Charlie Doering (University of Michigan), Optimal bounds and extremal trajectories for time averages in nonlinear dynamical systems   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, February 19, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Juanita Pinzon Caicedo (North Carolina State University, Mathematics), Gauge Theory and Knot Concordance   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, February 19, 2018, 4:30pm, Public Lectures Seminar
  Adam Chandler (), TBD   [abstract]

• Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Gabriel Stoltz (ENPC), Langevin dynamics at equilibrium and out of equilibrium: from hypocoercivity to efficient sampling   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  William Chen (IAS), Arithmetic monodromy actions on the pro-metabelian fundamental group of punctured elliptic curves   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 22, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Jonathon Peterson (Purdue University), Quantitative CLTs for random walks in random environments   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 23, 2018, 12:00pm, Wolfram Technologies in Education and Research
  Troy Schaudt (Wolfram Technologies in Education and Research), Using Mathematica   [abstract]

• Monday, February 26, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Ákos Nagy (Duke University), From instantons to vortices on spherically symmetric ALF manifolds   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Xiaoqian Xu (Carnegie Mellon University), Suppression of chemotactic explosion by mixing   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, March 1, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Hao Shen (Columbia University), Stochastic quantization of gauge theories   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 2, 2018, 11:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Ilarion Melnikov (James Madison University), Conformal perturbation theory

• Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Zhizhen (Jane) Zhao (UIUC), Multi-segment Reconstruction with Invariant Features   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, March 8, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Daniel Sanz-Alonso (Brown University), Bayes as Optimization   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Gal Mishne (Yale), Data-driven Analysis of Neuronal Activity   [abstract]

• Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 3:00pm, CNCS Seminar
  Eric Corwin (University of Oregon, Physics), Making a Two-Dimensional Thermal Ideal Gas by Shaking Your Breakfast   [abstract]

• Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Terry Loring (University of New Mexico), Multivariate pseudospectrum and topological physics   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, March 22, 2018, 3:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Wolfger Peelaers (Rutgers), Schur indices and torus partition functions   [abstract]

• Monday, March 26, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Adam Saltz (University of Georgia), Link homology and Floer homology in pictures by cobordisms   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, March 26, 2018, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Benoit Charbonneau (University of Waterloo), Deformations of nearly Kähler instantons   [abstract]

• Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Nicolas Brunel (Duke), Collective states with irregular single neuron activity in brain networks   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Ma Luo (Duke University, Mathematics), Algebraic iterated integrals on elliptic curves   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 2, 2018, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Didong Li (), Subspace Approximations with Spherelets   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 2, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Melissa Zhang (Boston College), Annular Khovanov homology and 2-periodic links   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Yu Gu (CMU), Gaussian fluctuations of random heat equations in high dimensions   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Dan Goldston (San Jose State University), Small Gaps between Zeros of the Riemann Zeta-Function   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 5, 2018, 3:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Eugene Rabinovich (Berkeley), A Mathematical Discussion of the Axial Anomaly in the Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 5, 2018, 4:00pm, Probability Seminar
  Jim Nolen (Duke University), A system of Brownian particles interacting through a moving reflector   [abstract]

• Monday, April 9, 2018, 12:00pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Ashleigh Thomas (), Practical multiparameter persistent homology   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 9, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Akram Alishahi (Columbia University, Mathematics), Trivial tangles, compressible surfaces and Floer homology   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Anna Gilbert (University of Michigan, Mathematics), If it ain't broke, don't fix it: Sparse metric repair   [abstract]

• Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 3:15pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Ma Luo (Duke University, Mathematics), Algebraic iterated integrals on the modular curve   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 16, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Jason Parsley (Wake Forest University), Petal Links   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 4:30pm, Mathematics/Physics Colloquium Seminar
  John Schotland (University of Michigan, Departments of Mathematics and Physics), Inverse Problems in Optical Imaging   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 19, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Gautam Iyer (Carnegie Mellon), Winding of Brownian trajectories and heat kernels on covering spaces   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 19, 2018, 3:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Justin Hilburn (University of Pennsylvania), Symplectic Duality and 3d Mirror Symmetry   [abstract]

• Monday, April 23, 2018, 3:15pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Steven Rayan (University of Saskatchewan, Department of Mathematics & Statistics), Asymptotic geometry of hyperpolygons   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 3:00pm, CNCS Seminar
  Camille Scalliet (University de Montpellier, Physics), When is the Gardner transition relevant?   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Rongjie Lai (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Understanding Manifold-structured Data via Geometric Modeling and Learning   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 26, 2018, 9:00am, The Fourth Duke Mathematical Journal Conference
  Various (), The Fourth Duke Mathematical Journal Conference   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 26, 2018, 3:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Mykhaylo Shkolnikov (Princeton University), Particles interacting through their hitting times: neuron firing, supercooling and systemic risk   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 26, 2018, 3:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Michele del Zotto (Harvard), Universal features of BPS strings for 6d SCFTs   [abstract]

• Friday, April 27, 2018, 9:00am, The Fourth Duke Mathematical Journal Conference
  Various (), The Fourth Duke Mathematical Journal Conference   [abstract]

• Saturday, April 28, 2018, 9:00am, The Fourth Duke Mathematical Journal Conference
  Various (), The Fourth Duke Mathematical Journal Conference   [abstract]

• Sunday, April 29, 2018, 9:00am, The Fourth Duke Mathematical Journal Conference
  Various (), The Fourth Duke Mathematical Journal Conference   [abstract]

• Monday, May 14, 2018, 8:00pm, Southeastern Probability Conference
  TBA (), Day 1   [abstract]

• Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 8:00pm, Southeastern Probability Conference
  TBA (), Day 2, ends at noon   [abstract]