UNSW Pure Maths Seminar
Tuesdays 12-1pm
Location: Usually Red Centre 4082, but please check the talk link for confirmation.
Tuesdays 12-1pm
Location: Usually Red Centre 4082, but please check the talk link for confirmation.
Schedule
2025
Term 1
April 8: Caroline Wormell (USyd) -- Computing the Hausdorff dimension of the Apollonian gasket
April 15: No seminar
April 22: Aidan Sims (University of Wollongong) -- How – and why – can you “sketch” an operator algebra?
April 29: Dominic Matan (UNSW) -- The Sarkisov program; and Aneurin Taylor (UNSW) -- Purple Ramsey
Between Term 1 & 2
May 6: Ryan Seelig (UNSW) -- Forest-skein categories and simple groups
May 13: Norman Wildberger (UNSW) -- A hyper-Catalan series solution to polynomial equations
May 20: Cale Rankin (Monash) -- The monopolist's problems: Optimization over the space of convex functions and a new free boundary problem
May 27: Thomas Lam (Michigan) -- Grassmannians and Catalan numbers
May 29 10-11am (note the special date and time!): Tasman Fell (UNSW/USyd) -- The diagrammatic spherical category
Term 2
June 3: Victor Wu (USyd) -- Classification, constructions, and C*-algebras
June 10: No seminar
June 17: Dror Bar-Natan (University of Toronto): The strongest genuinely computable knot invariant in 2024, see more info here!
June 24: Asilata Bapat (ANU): q-Deformed rational numbers via categorical group actions
July 1: Pieter Roffelsen (USyd): On monodromy of monodromy varieties --- Cancelled due to inclement weather! To be rescheduled in T3.
July 8: Balázs Elek: Pizzas and Kazhdan-Lusztig atlases on toric surfaces
July 15: Daniel Mansfield (UNSW): Mesopotamian Mathematics as an Empirical Science
July 22: No seminar
July 29: Madeline Nurcombe (USyd): The ghost algebra and the dilute ghost algebra
August 5: Marcello Lanfranchi (Macquarie): Representable tangent structures for affine schemes
August 6, 12pm: Honours seminar talks, Christian Albina (UNSW): Combinatorial explanations of Ramanujan-type congruences through the rank and crank statistics, and Anders Mah (UNSW): Counting rational points on affine hypersurfaces
Term 3
September 16:
September 23: Pieter Roffelsen (USyd)
September 30:
October 7: Connor Simpson (USyd)
October 14: Anita Liebenau (UNSW)
October 21:
October 28:
November 4: Yang Zhang (UQ)
November 11: Colin Reid (WSU)
November 18:
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