Mathematics Colloquia and Seminars

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PDE and Applied Math SeminarS. Iyer, S. Shkoller, A. Kumar
Algebra & Discrete MathematicsM. Vazirani, M. Sherman Bennett, E. Carlsson (F)
Algebraic Geometry and Number TheoryE. Gorskiy, K. Yeon (F)
Geometry/TopologyJ. Hass, M. Zhang (F)
Mathematical BiologyR. Guy (F), T. Lewis (W), M. Vazquez (S)
Mathematics of Data & DecisionsJ. De Loera, N. Saito (F)
Optimization(Special topics only)
ProbabilityB. Morris, A. Wein (F)
Mathematical Physics SeminarM. Fraas, A. Waldron
ColloquiumE. Babson, S. Shkoller
GGAM Colloquium
William Thurston LecturesE. Babson, S. Shkoller
Faculty Research Seminar
Graduate Success Seminar
Student-Run Research Seminar
Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar
Student-Run Combinatorics & Algebra
Student-Run Analysis & PDE
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Past Talks

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MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarYunpeng Shi
Thu, Jun 5 2025, 12:10PMMath Problems in 3D Computer Vision
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarNaoki Saito, UC Davis
Thu, May 29 2025, 12:10PMExplainable Nonlinear Signal Feature Extraction and Network Visualization
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarErik Carlsson
Thu, May 22 2025, 12:10PMOptimal transport maps as homotopies in topological data analysis (and other things)
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarBruno Nachtergaele
Thu, May 15 2025, 12:10PMStates, Phases, and Categories of Matter
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarAndrew Waldron
Thu, May 8 2025, 12:10PMResolving Einstein’s Equations
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarMotohico Mulase
Thu, May 1 2025, 12:10PMThe geometry and differential equations that know why $\zeta(3)$ is irrational.
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarKevin Luli
Thu, Apr 24 2025, 12:10PMInterpolation, extension and data fitting
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarAbi Gopal
Thu, Apr 17 2025, 12:10PMScientific computing in the 21st century
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarCANCELED
Tue, Jun 4 2024, 12:10PMTBA
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarJunxian Li, UC Davis
Tue, May 28 2024, 12:10PMValue distribution of L-functions
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarElena Fuchs, UC Davis
Tue, May 21 2024, 12:10PMNumber theory in orbits of groups
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarGreg Kuperberg, UC Davis
Tue, May 14 2024, 12:10PMGenerating large groups in geometric topology, and in classical and quantum computing
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarAdam Jacob, UC Davis
Tue, May 7 2024, 12:10PMGeometric flows in complex geometry
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarDan Romik, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 30 2024, 12:10PMSome stories about my research
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarMotohico Mulase, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 23 2024, 12:10PMZeta(3) and Mirror Symmetry of Symplectic and Algebraic Geometries
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarBen Morris, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 16 2024, 12:10PMOblivious card shuffling
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarAndrew Waldron, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 9 2024, 12:10PMRenormalized volume
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarAlex Wein, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 2 2024, 12:10PMDetecting Hidden Structure in Networks via Low-Degree Polynomials
Chemistry TBAFaculty Research SeminarJoseph Biello, UC Davis
Tue, May 31 2022, 12:10PMTBA
2112Faculty Research SeminarMichael Kapovich
Tue, May 17 2022, 12:10PMGeometry of discrete groups
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarElena Fuchs, UC Davis
Tue, May 3 2022, 12:10PMMarkoff Triples: Sieves, Graphs, and Cryptography
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarMariel Vazquez, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 26 2022, 12:10PMTopology and evolution of nucleic acids
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarRobert Guy, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 19 2022, 12:10PMTBA
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarDan Romik, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 12 2022, 12:10PMMy favorite failure
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarMonica Vazirani, UC Davis
Tue, Apr 5 2022, 12:10PMCombinatorial Representation Theory
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarJanko Gravner, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 29 2022, 12:00PMGaining knowledge in a random environment
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarAdam Jacob, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 8 2022, 12:10PMGeometric Equations on Complex Manifolds
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarTim Lewis, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 1 2022, 12:10PMReflected waves, one-dimensional spirals, and their implications for the onset of cardiac arrhythmias
Zoom ZoomFaculty Research SeminarAlbert Fannjiang, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 22 2022, 12:10PMOptical Fourier Transform & Imaging
Zoom ZoomFaculty Research SeminarThomas Strohmer, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 15 2022, 12:10PMHow data science will change our world - for better or for worse
Zoom ZoomFaculty Research SeminarSameer Iyer, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 8 2022, 12:10PMRecent progress in the inviscid limit of the Navier-Stokes equations
Zoom (see below) ZoomFaculty Research SeminarZhaojun Bai, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 1 2022, 12:10PMRecent Advances in Eigenvector-dependent Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems
Zoom (see below) ZoomFaculty Research SeminarNaoki Saito, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 25 2022, 12:10PMApplied & Computational Harmonic Analysis on Graphs and Networks
Zoom (see below) ZoomFaculty Research SeminarElbridge 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 Research SeminarMotohico Mulase, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 11 2022, 12:10PMFrom mirror symmetry of the Catalan numbers to algebraic geometry of quantization
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarFernanda Valdovinos, GGAM and Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy
Tue, May 18 2021, 12:10PMUsing mathematical models and computers to answer complex ecological questions
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarJoseph Biello
Tue, May 11 2021, 12:10PMCANCELLED
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarAbigail Thompson
Tue, May 4 2021, 12:10PMConstructing 4-manifolds
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarAndrew Waldron
Tue, Apr 27 2021, 12:10PMConformally compact structures, embeddings and all that…
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarHarishankar Manikantan, GGAM and Chemical Engineering
Tue, Apr 20 2021, 12:10PMFluid dynamics of the cell: floppy filaments and messy membranes
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarBlake Temple
Tue, Apr 6 2021, 12:10PMSingularities in General Relativity and Shock Wave Theory
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarKevin Luli
Tue, Mar 30 2021, 12:10PMSmooth Interpolation with Constraints
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarFu Liu, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 9 2021, 2:10PMTwo problems in Geometric Combinatorics
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarGreg Kuperberg, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 2 2021, 12:10PMGeometric topology meets computational complexity
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarMartin Luu, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 23 2021, 12:10PMSchur polynomials and Lie algebras
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarQinglan Xia, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 16 2021, 12:10PMRamified optimal transportation with payoff on the boundary
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarShiqian Ma, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 9 2021, 12:10PMRiemannian Optimization for the Projection Robust Wasserstein Distance
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarJoseph Teran, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 2 2021, 12:10PMElastoplasticity Simulation with the Material Point Method
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarJavier Arsuaga, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 26 2021, 12:10PMMathematical Problems in Molecular Virology
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarMartin Fraas, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 19 2021, 12:10PMAnyons in Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarMatthias Köppe, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 12 2021, 12:10PMComputational cutgeneratingfunctionology: Certifying next-generation cutting planes for mixed integer linear programming
ZoomFaculty Research SeminarErik Carlsson, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 5 2021, 12:10PMCombinatorics in geometry
Online Faculty Research SeminarRaissa D'Souza
Tue, Jun 2 2020, 1:00PMECC 2019, Naples - Plenary Lecture
Online Faculty Research SeminarRoland Freund
Tue, May 26 2020, 1:00PMKrylov subspace-based model order reduction of RCL circuit equations
Online Faculty Research SeminarAlan Hastings
Tue, May 19 2020, 1:00PMDYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF SPATIAL ECOLOGICAL POPULATIONS
Online Faculty Research SeminarRida Farouki
Tue, May 12 2020, 1:00PMQuaternions, spatial Pythagorean hodographs, and rotations in three and four dimensions
Online Faculty Research SeminarEric Babson
Tue, May 5 2020, 1:00PMRandom triangulations of the two sphere
Online Faculty Research SeminarBruno Nachtergaele
Tue, Apr 28 2020, 1:10PMInvariants for Gapped Ground State Phases
Online Faculty Research SeminarAlexander Soshnikov
Tue, Apr 21 2020, 1:00PMCentral limit theorem type results in large random matrices with independent entries
Faculty Research SeminarBob Guy
Tue, Apr 14 2020, 1:00PMElastic stress development at flagella tips and its effect on locomotion
Faculty Research SeminarMichael Kapovich
Tue, Apr 7 2020, 1:00PMTopology of complex projective varieties and 3 dimensional hyperbolic geometry
Faculty Research SeminarJennifer Schultens
Tue, Mar 31 2020, 1:10PMThe Kakimizu complex of a 3-manifold need not be quasi-Euclidean
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarSteve Shkoller, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 10 2020, 12:01PM[CANCELLED] An Invitation to the Shock Formation Problem
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarBecca Thomases, UC Davis
Tue, Mar 3 2020, 12:01PMAn invitation to viscoelastic fluid dynamics
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarRoger Casals, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 25 2020, 12:01PMAn Invitation to Legendrian Knots
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarMonica Vazirani, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 18 2020, 12:00PMAn invitation to combinatorial representation theory and diagrammatic algebras
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarJohn K. Hunter, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 11 2020, 12:00PMAn Introduction to PDEs and Fluid Mechanics
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarRishidev Chaudhuri, UC Davis
Tue, Feb 4 2020, 12:10PMAn Invitation to the Mathematics of the Brain
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarLaura Starkston, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 28 2020, 12:10PMAn Invitation to Symplectic Topology
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarEugene Gorsky, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 21 2020, 12:10PMAn Invitation to algebraic geometry and knot invariants
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarAnne Schilling, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 14 2020, 12:10PMAn Invitation to Representation Theory and Combinatorics
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarTudor Dimofte, UC Davis
Tue, Jan 7 2020, 12:10PMAn Invitation to QFT and Physical Mathematics
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarElena Fuchs, UC Davis
Thu, Jun 6 2019, 1:00PMLocal to Global in Circle Packings
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarJesus A. De Loera, UC Davis
Thu, Jun 6 2019, 12:30PMAlgebraic Geometry in Optimization: 2 examples
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarTim Lewis
Thu, May 30 2019, 1:00PMThe Neuromechanics of Limb Coordination
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarRoger Casals, UC Davis
Thu, May 30 2019, 12:30PMThe topology of affine complex manifolds
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarAlbert Fannjiang
Thu, May 23 2019, 1:00PMPhase Retrieval and Imaging
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarAdam Jacob, UC Davis
Thu, May 23 2019, 12:30PMCurvature of Surfaces and Special Lagrangians
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarTBA, UC Davis
Thu, May 9 2019, 1:00PMTBA
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarJohn Hunter
Thu, May 9 2019, 12:30PMNormal Forms for PDEs
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarRishidev Chaudhuri, UC Davis
Thu, May 2 2019, 1:00PMHow can math help understand the brain?
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarAnne Schilling, UC Davis
Thu, May 2 2019, 12:30PMThe ubiquity of crystals
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarBecca Thomases, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 25 2019, 1:00PMComplex fluids in nature and industry
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarTudor Dimofte, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 25 2019, 12:30PMPhysical Mathematics
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarKevin Luli, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 18 2019, 1:00PMConverse to Taylor's Theorem and Beyond
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarLaura Starkston, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 18 2019, 12:30PMSymplectic surfaces in 4-manifolds
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarJoel Hass, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 11 2019, 1:00PMSome new applications of Geometry and Topology in Biology
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarMotohico Mulase, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 11 2019, 12:30PMGeometry out of the Vision of Galois
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarBruno Nachtergaele, UC Davis
Thu, Apr 4 2019, 1:00PMMathematical Challenges in Quantum Many-Body Systems
MSB 2112Faculty Research SeminarMichael Kapovich, UC Davs
Thu, Apr 4 2019, 12:30PMWhat is Geometric Group Theory?