Mathematics Colloquia and Seminars

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PDE & Applied MathematicsS. Iyer, S. Shkoller, A. Kumar
Algebra & Discrete MathematicsM. Vazirani, E. Carlsson (F), M. Sherman Bennett (W)
Algebraic Geometry and Number TheoryK. Yeon (F), E. Gorskiy (W)
Geometry/TopologyM. Zhang (F/W), J. Hass (S)
Mathematical BiologyR. Guy (F), M. Vazquez (W), T. Lewis (S)
Mathematics of Data & DecisionsJ. De Loera (W/S), N. Saito (F)
Joint Math/CS TheoryI. Kim (CS - W), G. Kuperberg (W)
Optimization(Special topics only)
ProbabilityB. Morris, A. Wein (F)
Mathematical PhysicsM. Fraas, A. Waldron
ColloquiumE. Babson, S. Shkoller
GGAM Colloquium
William Thurston LecturesE. Babson, S. Shkoller
Faculty Research
Graduate Success
Student-Run Research
Student-Run Geometry/Topology
Student-Run Combinatorics & Algebra
Student-Run Analysis & PDE
Featured Campus Seminars
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MSB 2112Faculty ResearchYunpeng Shi
Thu, Jun 5 2025, 12:10PMMath Problems in 3D Computer Vision
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchNaoki Saito, UC Davis
Thu, May 29 2025, 12:10PMExplainable Nonlinear Signal Feature Extraction and Network Visualization
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchErik Carlsson
Thu, May 22 2025, 12:10PMOptimal transport maps as homotopies in topological data analysis (and other things)
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchBruno Nachtergaele
Thu, May 15 2025, 12:10PMStates, Phases, and Categories of Matter
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchAndrew Waldron
Thu, May 8 2025, 12:10PMResolving Einstein’s Equations
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchMotohico Mulase
Thu, May 1 2025, 12:10PMThe geometry and differential equations that know why $\zeta(3)$ is irrational.
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchKevin Luli
Thu, Apr 24 2025, 12:10PMInterpolation, extension and data fitting
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchAbi Gopal
Thu, Apr 17 2025, 12:10PMScientific computing in the 21st century
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchCANCELED
Tue, Jun 4 2024, 12:10PMTBA
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchJunxian Li, UC Davis
Tue, May 28 2024, 12:10PMValue distribution of L-functions
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchElena Fuchs, UC Davis
Tue, May 21 2024, 12:10PMNumber theory in orbits of groups
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchGreg Kuperberg, UC Davis
Tue, May 14 2024, 12:10PMGenerating large groups in geometric topology, and in classical and quantum computing
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchAdam Jacob, UC Davis
Tue, May 7 2024, 12:10PMGeometric flows in complex geometry
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchDan Romik, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 30 2024, 12:10PMSome stories about my research
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchMotohico Mulase, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 23 2024, 12:10PMZeta(3) and Mirror Symmetry of Symplectic and Algebraic Geometries
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchBen Morris, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 16 2024, 12:10PMOblivious card shuffling
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchAndrew Waldron, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 9 2024, 12:10PMRenormalized volume
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchAlex Wein, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 2 2024, 12:10PMDetecting Hidden Structure in Networks via Low-Degree Polynomials
Chemistry TBAFaculty ResearchJoseph Biello, UC Davis
Tue, May 31 2022, 12:10PMTBA
2112Faculty ResearchMichael Kapovich
Tue, May 17 2022, 12:10PMGeometry of discrete groups
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchElena Fuchs, UC Davis
Tue, May 3 2022, 12:10PMMarkoff Triples: Sieves, Graphs, and Cryptography
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchMariel Vazquez, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 26 2022, 12:10PMTopology and evolution of nucleic acids
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchRobert Guy, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 19 2022, 12:10PMTBA
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchDan Romik, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 12 2022, 12:10PMMy favorite failure
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchMonica Vazirani, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 5 2022, 12:10PMCombinatorial Representation Theory
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchJanko Gravner, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 29 2022, 12:00PMGaining knowledge in a random environment
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchAdam Jacob, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 8 2022, 12:10PMGeometric Equations on Complex Manifolds
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchTim Lewis, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 1 2022, 12:10PMReflected waves, one-dimensional spirals, and their implications for the onset of cardiac arrhythmias
Zoom ZoomFaculty ResearchAlbert Fannjiang, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 22 2022, 12:10PMOptical Fourier Transform & Imaging
Zoom ZoomFaculty ResearchThomas Strohmer, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 15 2022, 12:10PMHow data science will change our world - for better or for worse
Zoom ZoomFaculty ResearchSameer Iyer, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 8 2022, 12:10PMRecent progress in the inviscid limit of the Navier-Stokes equations
Zoom (see below) ZoomFaculty ResearchZhaojun Bai, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 1 2022, 12:10PMRecent Advances in Eigenvector-dependent Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems
Zoom (see below) ZoomFaculty ResearchNaoki Saito, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 25 2022, 12:10PMApplied & Computational Harmonic Analysis on Graphs and Networks
Zoom (see below) ZoomFaculty ResearchElbridge Gerry Puckett, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 18 2022, 12:10PMComputing the Evolution of Planet Earth: From the Surface to the Core-Mantle Boundary
Zoom (see below) ZoomFaculty ResearchMotohico Mulase, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 11 2022, 12:10PMFrom mirror symmetry of the Catalan numbers to algebraic geometry of quantization
ZoomFaculty ResearchFernanda Valdovinos, GGAM and Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy
Tue, May 18 2021, 12:10PMUsing mathematical models and computers to answer complex ecological questions
ZoomFaculty ResearchJoseph Biello
Tue, May 11 2021, 12:10PMCANCELLED
ZoomFaculty ResearchAbigail Thompson
Tue, May 4 2021, 12:10PMConstructing 4-manifolds
ZoomFaculty ResearchAndrew Waldron
Tue, Apr 27 2021, 12:10PMConformally compact structures, embeddings and all that…
ZoomFaculty ResearchHarishankar Manikantan, GGAM and Chemical Engineering
Tue, Apr 20 2021, 12:10PMFluid dynamics of the cell: floppy filaments and messy membranes
ZoomFaculty ResearchBlake Temple
Tue, Apr 6 2021, 12:10PMSingularities in General Relativity and Shock Wave Theory
ZoomFaculty ResearchKevin Luli
Tue, Mar 30 2021, 12:10PMSmooth Interpolation with Constraints
ZoomFaculty ResearchFu Liu, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 9 2021, 2:10PMTwo problems in Geometric Combinatorics
ZoomFaculty ResearchGreg Kuperberg, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 2 2021, 12:10PMGeometric topology meets computational complexity
ZoomFaculty ResearchMartin Luu, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 23 2021, 12:10PMSchur polynomials and Lie algebras
ZoomFaculty ResearchQinglan Xia, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 16 2021, 12:10PMRamified optimal transportation with payoff on the boundary
ZoomFaculty ResearchShiqian Ma, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 9 2021, 12:10PMRiemannian Optimization for the Projection Robust Wasserstein Distance
ZoomFaculty ResearchJoseph Teran, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 2 2021, 12:10PMElastoplasticity Simulation with the Material Point Method
ZoomFaculty ResearchJavier Arsuaga, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 26 2021, 12:10PMMathematical Problems in Molecular Virology
ZoomFaculty ResearchMartin Fraas, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 19 2021, 12:10PMAnyons in Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
ZoomFaculty ResearchMatthias Köppe, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 12 2021, 12:10PMComputational cutgeneratingfunctionology: Certifying next-generation cutting planes for mixed integer linear programming
ZoomFaculty ResearchErik Carlsson, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 5 2021, 12:10PMCombinatorics in geometry
Online Faculty ResearchRaissa D'Souza
Tue, Jun 2 2020, 1:00PMECC 2019, Naples - Plenary Lecture
Online Faculty ResearchRoland Freund
Tue, May 26 2020, 1:00PMKrylov subspace-based model order reduction of RCL circuit equations
Online Faculty ResearchAlan Hastings
Tue, May 19 2020, 1:00PMDYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF SPATIAL ECOLOGICAL POPULATIONS
Online Faculty ResearchRida Farouki
Tue, May 12 2020, 1:00PMQuaternions, spatial Pythagorean hodographs, and rotations in three and four dimensions
Online Faculty ResearchEric Babson
Tue, May 5 2020, 1:00PMRandom triangulations of the two sphere
Online Faculty ResearchBruno Nachtergaele
Tue, Apr 28 2020, 1:10PMInvariants for Gapped Ground State Phases
Online Faculty ResearchAlexander Soshnikov
Tue, Apr 21 2020, 1:00PMCentral limit theorem type results in large random matrices with independent entries
Faculty ResearchBob Guy
Tue, Apr 14 2020, 1:00PMElastic stress development at flagella tips and its effect on locomotion
Faculty ResearchMichael Kapovich
Tue, Apr 7 2020, 1:00PMTopology of complex projective varieties and 3 dimensional hyperbolic geometry
Faculty ResearchJennifer Schultens
Tue, Mar 31 2020, 1:10PMThe Kakimizu complex of a 3-manifold need not be quasi-Euclidean
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchSteve Shkoller, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 10 2020, 12:01PM[CANCELLED] An Invitation to the Shock Formation Problem
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchBecca Thomases, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 3 2020, 12:01PMAn invitation to viscoelastic fluid dynamics
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchRoger Casals, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 25 2020, 12:01PMAn Invitation to Legendrian Knots
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchMonica Vazirani, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 18 2020, 12:00PMAn invitation to combinatorial representation theory and diagrammatic algebras
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchJohn K. Hunter, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 11 2020, 12:00PMAn Introduction to PDEs and Fluid Mechanics
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchRishidev Chaudhuri, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 4 2020, 12:10PMAn Invitation to the Mathematics of the Brain
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchLaura Starkston, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 28 2020, 12:10PMAn Invitation to Symplectic Topology
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchEugene Gorsky, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 21 2020, 12:10PMAn Invitation to algebraic geometry and knot invariants
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchAnne Schilling, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 14 2020, 12:10PMAn Invitation to Representation Theory and Combinatorics
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchTudor Dimofte, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 7 2020, 12:10PMAn Invitation to QFT and Physical Mathematics
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchElena Fuchs, UC Davis
Thu, Jun 6 2019, 1:00PMLocal to Global in Circle Packings
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchJesus A. De Loera, UC Davis
Thu, Jun 6 2019, 12:30PMAlgebraic Geometry in Optimization: 2 examples
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchTim Lewis
Thu, May 30 2019, 1:00PMThe Neuromechanics of Limb Coordination
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchRoger Casals, UC Davis
Thu, May 30 2019, 12:30PMThe topology of affine complex manifolds
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchAlbert Fannjiang
Thu, May 23 2019, 1:00PMPhase Retrieval and Imaging
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchAdam Jacob, UC Davis
Thu, May 23 2019, 12:30PMCurvature of Surfaces and Special Lagrangians
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchTBA, UC Davis
Thu, May 9 2019, 1:00PMTBA
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchJohn Hunter
Thu, May 9 2019, 12:30PMNormal Forms for PDEs
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchRishidev Chaudhuri, UC Davis
Thu, May 2 2019, 1:00PMHow can math help understand the brain?
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchAnne Schilling, UC Davis
Thu, May 2 2019, 12:30PMThe ubiquity of crystals
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchBecca Thomases, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 25 2019, 1:00PMComplex fluids in nature and industry
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchTudor Dimofte, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 25 2019, 12:30PMPhysical Mathematics
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchKevin Luli, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 18 2019, 1:00PMConverse to Taylor's Theorem and Beyond
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchLaura Starkston, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 18 2019, 12:30PMSymplectic surfaces in 4-manifolds
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchJoel Hass, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 11 2019, 1:00PMSome new applications of Geometry and Topology in Biology
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchMotohico Mulase, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 11 2019, 12:30PMGeometry out of the Vision of Galois
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchBruno Nachtergaele, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 4 2019, 1:00PMMathematical Challenges in Quantum Many-Body Systems
MSB 2112Faculty ResearchMichael Kapovich, UC Davs
Thu, Apr 4 2019, 12:30PMWhat is Geometric Group Theory?