January 2026

4:00pm
Special Guest Lecture
KT 801
Pavel Galashin -
Positroids, knots, and q,t-Catalan numbers
4:30pm
TBA
Pavel Galashin - Cornell University
Positroids, knots, and q,t-Catalan numbers
10:00am
Special Guest Lecture
KT 801
Yuxin Zhou - University of Chicago
Introduction to Spin Glass Theory
11:15am
Special Guest Lecture
KT 801
Ruixiang Zhang - University of California, Berkeley
Where can free waves concentrate
4:00pm
Colloquium
KT 205
Jinyoung Park - NYU
The Convexity Conjecture, the Kahn-Kalai Conjecture, and introduction to k-thresholds
10:00am
Special Guest Lecture
KT 801
Javier Gomez-Serrano - Brown University
Mathematical Exploration and Discovery at Scale
4:30pm
Quantum Topology and Field Theory
KT 801
Giulio Belletti - UC Louvain
Finiteness of Kauffman bracket skein modules
4:00pm
Quantum Topology and Field Theory
KT 801
Ahsan Khan - Harvard University
Categorifying the Schur index of Seiberg-Witten theory
2:00pm
Quantum Topology and Field Theory
KT 801
Dylan Butson - UCLA
Deformation theory of vertex algebras and 'free field realizations from the Higgs branch
4:00pm
Learning seminar on Groups, Geometry and Dynamics
KT 801
Sebastian Hurtado -
Ergodicity of geodesic flows.
3:45pm
Geometric Analysis and Application
KT 906
Jiahua Zou - Rutgers University
Index and nullity of minimal surfaces
4:30pm
Geometry, Symmetry and Physics
KT 801
David Bai - Yale Univeristy
Tate-Shafarevich twists of Lagrangian fibrations
4:00pm
Analysis
Boaz Klartag - Weizmann Institute
Lattice packing of spheres in high dimensions using a stochastically evolving ellipsoid
4:30pm
Quantum Topology and Field Theory
KT 801
Christine Lee - Texas State University
A whittled complex for the Khovanov homology of torus braids
2:15pm
Learning seminar on Matroids and Algebraic Cycles
KT 801
Junliang Shen - Yale University
Learning seminar on Matroids and Algebraic Cycles
4:00pm
Learning seminar on Groups, Geometry and Dynamics
Gal Yehuda -
(Infinite) approximate groups.