Department Colloquium

The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm in Evans 60. We will have at least two talks every month. Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is cordially invited to attend.

Lin Lin, Colloquium Chair.

Fall 2025

DateSpeakerTitle
September 4 Department of Mathematics,
Evans 60		 State of the Department
September 11 Joseph M Landsberg,
Texas A&M University		 A classical problem in linear algebra and its connections to complexity theory, commutative algebra, and algebraic geometry
September 18 Federico Ardila,
Evans 60		 The 2025 Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture
September 25 Wencai Liu,
Evans 60		 Algebraic Properties of Dispersion Polynomials, Combinatorial Structures of Graphs, and Their Spectral Consequences
October 2 Daniel Kressner,
EPFL		 Randomized linear algebra in scientific computing
October 9 Daniel Spielman,
Yale University		 Discrepancy Theory and its application to Randomized Controlled Trials
October 16 Donald Saari,
University of California, Irvine		 The 2025 Bowen Lectures
October 23 Yunqing Tang,
University of California, Berkeley		  Irrationality of periods
October 30 Sung-Jin Oh,
University of California, Berkeley		 Long-term behavior of linear and nonlinear waves
November 6 Israel Michael Sigal,
University of Toronto		 On Propagation of Information in Open Quantum Systems
November 13 Hao Shen,
University of Wisconsin, Madison		 Stochastic quantization of Yang-Mills
November 20 Joel Tropp,
Caltech		 Positive random walks and positive-semidefinite random matrices
December 4

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