Fall 2025
8/29/2025: Introduction and Graduate Student Lightning Talks
9/5/2025: Pedro Brunialti Lima de Andrade - Chern classes in physics
9/12/2025: Charlie Conneen - The Foundations of Digital Mathematics
9/19/2025: Thomas Jaklitsch - The Kodaira Embedding Theorem
9/26/2025: Aaratrick Basu - The Nielsen-Thurston Classification Theorem
10/3/2025: Ruiqi Zou - Complexity of the decidability problems in group theory
10/10/2025: Eleftherios Chatzitheodoridis - A modern perspective on rational homotopy theory (preprint)
10/17/2025: Felipe Flores Llarena - On the continuity of derivations
10/24/2025: Raúl Hernández-González - Across the Crypto-verse: Elliptic-curve Cryptography
10/31/2025: No seminar
11/7/2025: Petch Chueluecha - Counting with Algebra
11/14/2025: Zivile Puospekaite - An introduction to right-angled Artin groups
11/21/2025: Oscar Arévalo - Convexité en topologie de contact
11/28/2025: No seminar - Thanksgiving break
12/5/2025: Michael Wills - TeX Primitives for a Happy and Healthy Life; or, I Read Some of Donald Knuth's TeXBook and Now It's Everybody's Problem
Spring 2026
1/16/2026: Adam Thomas Friedman-Brown - Constructions and Invariants of Single-Cylinder Origamis
1/23/2026: John Layne - Pseudorandomness
1/30/2026: Eleftherios Chatzitheodoridis - Models for rational (∞,1)-categories (preprint)
2/6/2026: Alejandro de las Peñas Castaño - The Chow group of 0-cycles on products of elliptic curves
2/13/2026: Mason Hart - Circle actions on 4-manifolds
2/20/2026: Jun Park - Diffusion Models: The Mathematics of AI Image Generation
2/27/2026: Avinash Iyer - Extending beyond our limits (manuscript)
3/6/2026: No seminar - spring break
3/13/2026: Nick Sweeney - Noncommutative differential geometry
3/20/2026: Kevin Gomez - Computation, Complexity, and Code Golf
3/27/2026: Astrid Lilly - Fundamental groups and the inverse Galois problem
4/3/2026: David Chasteen-Boyd - Building a Geometric Structure from a Surface Group Representation
4/10/2026: Jing Wang - Algebraic K-theory of exact and CGW categories
4/17/2026: Oscar Arévalo - Heegaard Floer homology, contact type embeddings and planar open books
4/24/2026: Graduating Students Lightning Talks - Eleftherios Chatzitheodoridis (slides), Kevin Gomez, Michael Wills (slides)