Calendar of Seminars & Colloquia

AUTUMN 2013
Sep 30 - Oct 4
October 7 - 11 October 14 - 18
October 21- 25 Oct 28 - Nov 1
November 4- 8 November 11 - 15
November 18 - 22 November 25 - 29
December 2 - 6 December 9 - 13
This page contains listings of all seminar and colloquium meetings scheduled for the quarter, updated on an ongoing basis. Send seminar announcements to Rose Choi at rosechoi[at]math.washington.edu.

If an ongoing seminar has its own web page, click on the name of the seminar to visit that page.


Week of Sep 30 - Oct 4
Monday, September 30
Probability Seminar
   On meteors, earthworms and WIMPs
   Krzysztof Burdzy, University of Washington

   2:30pm, MEB 243
Tuesday, October 1
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   Derived algebraic geometry and the derived categories of genus 1 curves
   Benjamin Antieau, University of Washington

   2:30pm, PDL C-36
New Rainwater Seminar
   Infinity harmonic functions/Infinity ground states
   Ryan Hynd, University of Pennsylvania

   1:30pm & 2:15pm, PDL C-401
Number Theory Seminar
   Organizational Meeting

   11:00am, PDL C-401
Wednesday, October 2
Combinatorics Seminar
   On the (t,r) broadcast domination of grids
   Erik Insko, Florida Gulf Coast University

   4:00pm, PDL C-401
Thursday, October 3
Differential Geometry/PDE Seminar
   The geometry of static spacetimes in General Relativity
   Carla Cederbaum, Universität Tübingen & MSRI

   1:30pm, PDL C-36
Grad Student Analysis Seminar
   Local Set Approximation and Tangents of Arbitrary Sets
   Stephen Lewis, University of Washington

   2:30pm, PDL C-401
Friday, October 4
 
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Week of October 7 - 11
Monday, October 7
Probability Seminar
   Intertwining diffusions and wave equations
   Soumik Pal, University of Washington

   2:30pm, MEB 243
Tuesday, October 8
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   Rational Pairs: Motivation and New Results
   Lindsay Erickson, University of Washington

   2:30pm, PDL C-36
Trends in Optimization Seminar
   Ceres Solver
   Sameer Agarwal, Google

   4:00pm, JHN 175
New Rainwater Seminar
   Recent progress on self-similar sets and measures
   Boris Solomyak , University of Washington

   1:30pm, PDL C-401
Number Theory Seminar
   Discriminant Twins
   Alyson Deines, University of Washington

   11:00am, PDL C-401
Wednesday, October 9
Combinatorics Seminar
   Upper semicontinuity of certain Kazhdan-Lusztig-Vogan polynomials
   Monty McGovern, University of Washington

   4:00pm, PDL C-401
Thursday, October 10
 
Friday, October 11
MAC Colloquium
   The challenge of sustainability and the promise of mathematics
   Simon Levin, Princeton University

   2:30pm, KNE 210
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Week of October 14 - 18
Monday, October 14
 
Tuesday, October 15
Trends in Optimization Seminar
   A Criterion for Sums of Squares on the Hypercube
   James Pfeiffer, University of Washington

   4:00pm, JHN 175
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   Enhancing the CM Method for Genus 2 Curves
   Alyson Deines, University of Washington

   2:30pm, PDL C-36
Number Theory Seminar
   Borcherds product and its application
   Tonghai Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison & Microsoft Research

   11:00am, PDL C-401
Wednesday, October 16
Combinatorics Seminar
   TBA
   Matt Housley, Brigham Young University

   4:00pm, PDL C-401
Differential Geometry/PDE Seminar
  TBA
  TBA

   1:30pm, PDL C-36
Thursday, October 17
 
Friday, October 18
 
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Week of October 21 - 25
Monday, October 21
 
Tuesday, October 22
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   A Geometric Explanation of Piecewise Polynomiality of Double Hurwitz Cycles
   Renzo Cavalieri, Colorado State University

   2:30pm, PDL C-36
Wednesday, October 23
Combinatorics Seminar
   0-Hecke algebra actions on polynomials and Stanley-Reisner rings
   Jia Huang, University of Minnesota

   4:00pm, PDL C-401
Thursday, October 24
 
Friday, October 25
 
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Week of Oct 28 - Nov 1
Monday, October 28
 
Tuesday, October 29
Trends in Optimization Seminar
   Part of The Dean Lytle Electrical Engineering Endowed Lecture Series
   Stephen Boyd, Stanford University

   3:30pm, EEB 105
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   TBA
   Roman Fedorov, Kansas State

   2:30pm, PDL C-36
Wednesday, October 30
Combinatorics Seminar
   TBA
   Anne Schilling, University of California-Davis

   4:00pm, PDL C-401
Thursday, October 31
 
Friday, November 1
 
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Week of November 4 - 8
Monday, November 4
 
Tuesday, November 5
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   TBA
   Gautam Sisodia, University of Washington

   2:30pm, PDL C-36
Wednesday, November 6
Combinatorics Seminar
   TBA
   Bruno Benedetti, Freie Universität Berlin

   4:00pm, PDL C-401
Thursday, November 7
 
Friday, November 8
 
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Week of November 11 - 15
Monday, November 11
~Veteran's Day~
Tuesday, November 12
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   TBA
   Chelsea Walton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

   2:30pm, PDL C-36
Wednesday, November 13
 
Thursday, November 14
 
Friday, November 15
 
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Week of November 18 - 22
Monday, November 18
 
Tuesday, November 19
Trends in Optimization Seminar
   TBA
   Daniel Dadush, New York University-Courant Institute

   4:00pm, TBD
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   TBA
   Van Nguyen, Texas A&M University

   2:30pm, PDL C-36
Wednesday, November 20
 
Thursday, November 21
 
Friday, November 22
 
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Week of November 25 - 29
Monday, November 25
 
Tuesday, November 26
Trends in Optimization Seminar
   Statistical Optimization for Identifying Genomic Copy Number Variations
   Sina Jafarpour, Bina Technologies

   4:00pm, JHN 175
Wednesday, November 27
 
Thursday, November 28
~Thanksgiving Holiday~
Friday, November 29
~Thanksgiving Holiday~
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Week of December 2 - 6
Monday, December 2
Trends in Optimization Seminar
   TBA
   Pablo Parrilo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

   4:00pm, TBD
Tuesday, December 3
Milliman Lecture
   TBA
   Michael Hopkins, Harvard University

   Sieg Hall 134
Wednesday, December 4
Milliman Lecture
   TBA
   Michael Hopkins, Harvard University

   Sieg Hall 134
Thursday, December 5
Milliman Lecture
   TBA
   Michael Hopkins, Harvard University

   Sieg Hall 134
Friday, December 6
 
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Week of December 9 - 13
Monday, December 9
 
Tuesday, December 10
 
Wednesday, December 11
 
Thursday, December 12
 
Friday, December 13
 
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