Thursday, January 1, 2026

4:00pm	Special Guest Lecture [3]	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 [3]	KT 801	Yuxin Zhou - University of Chicago	Introduction to Spin Glass Theory
11:15am	Special Guest Lecture [3]	KT 801	Ruixiang Zhang - University of California, Berkeley	Where can free waves concentrate
4:00pm	Colloquium [4]	KT 205	Jinyoung Park - NYU	The Convexity Conjecture, the Kahn-Kalai Conjecture, and introduction to k-thresholds
10:00am	Special Guest Lecture [3]	KT 801	Javier Gomez-Serrano - Brown University	Mathematical Exploration and Discovery at Scale
4:30pm	Quantum Topology and Field Theory [5]	KT 801	Giulio Belletti - UC Louvain	Finiteness of Kauffman bracket skein modules
4:00pm	Quantum Topology and Field Theory [5]	KT 801	Ahsan Khan - Harvard University	Categorifying the Schur index of Seiberg-Witten theory
2:00pm	Quantum Topology and Field Theory [5]	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 [6]	KT 801	Sebastian Hurtado -	Ergodicity of geodesic flows.
3:45pm	Geometric Analysis and Application [7]	KT 906	Jiahua Zou - Rutgers University	Index and nullity of minimal surfaces
4:30pm	Geometry, Symmetry and Physics [8]	KT 801	David Bai - Yale Univeristy	Tate-Shafarevich twists of Lagrangian fibrations
4:00pm	Analysis [9]		Boaz Klartag - Weizmann Institute	Lattice packing of spheres in high dimensions using a stochastically evolving ellipsoid
4:30pm	Quantum Topology and Field Theory [5]	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 [10]	KT 801	Junliang Shen - Yale University	Learning seminar on Matroids and Algebraic Cycles
4:00pm	Learning seminar on Groups, Geometry and Dynamics [6]		Gal Yehuda -	(Infinite) approximate groups.