Mathematics — talks (attended)
Joint Mathematics Meeting ‘25. Seattle, WA Jan 7–11.
The Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) is a mathematics conference hosted annually in early January by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Frequently, several other national mathematics organizations also participate. The meeting is the largest gathering of mathematicians in the United States, and the largest annual meeting of mathematicians in the world. Several thousand talks, panels, minicourses, and poster sessions are held each year. This year I attended the following talks.
Invited Speakers
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AMS Colloquium Lecture - Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UC, Berkeley
Part I. Quantum mechanics meets arithmetics. The ten martini problem.
Part II. Quantitative global theory, dual Lyapunov exponents, and robust spectral results.
Part III. Small denominators without KAM. Robust arithmetic Spectral transitions. -
von Neumann Lecture - Lester Mackey, Stanford University
Stein’s Method, Learning, and Inference -
AMS Erdős Lecture for Students - Kristin E. Lauter, Meta AI
AI for Cryptography -
AMS Invited Address - Mohammed Abouzaid, Stanford University
One Hundred Years of Morse Theory -
MAA-SIAM-AMS Hrabowski-Gates-Tapia-McBay Lecture - Victor Moll, Tulane Univ.
Integral Tales: Some Unexpected Connections -
NAM Claytor-Woodard Lecture - Tai-Danae Bradley, SandboxAQ
Structure in Language: A Category Theoretical Perspective -
JPBM Communications Award Lecture - Eugenia Cheng, Art Institute of Chicago
Math, Art, Social Justice -
ASL Invited Address - Theodore Allen Slaman, University of California, Berkeley
Extending Borel’s Conjecture from Measure to Dimension
Special Sessions
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AMS Special Session on New Trends in Lie Theory and Mathematical Physics
Supersymmetric W-algebras and Free Field Realization
Extending the Lax type operator for finite W-algebras -
AMS Special Session on Random Walks on Graphs and Related Parameters
Some spectral properties of the non-backtracking matrix of a graph
Defective eigenvalues of the non-backtracking matrix
Multiphase Markov Chains
On the last new vertex visited by a random walk in a directed graph
Random walking on a graph and on its complement -
AMS Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics and Random Discrete Structures
On Off-Diagonal F-Ramsey numbers
On the number of P-free set families for tree posets P
Extremal problems for given order and generalizations of independence numbers
Gale duality in Hilbert spaces -
AMS Special Session on Local-to-Global in Apollonian Circle Packings and Beyond
Spectral decomposition and Siegel-Veech transforms for strata: The case of marked tori
Local obstructions in prime components of Apollonian circle packings
Prime components in Apollonian circle packings
Some perspectives on Local-Global problems -
AMS Current Events Bulletin
Apollonian packings: the rise and fall of the local to global conjecture
Floer cohomology and invariants of singularities
Finding Arithmetic Progressions in Dense Sets of Integers
Stanford University, Math Department Talks
February
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM — Mehtaab Sawhney (Columbia)
Improved Bounds for Szemerédi's Theorem
March
LECTURES — David Jerison (MIT)
How Curved are Level Sets of Eigenfunctions?
BERGMAN LECTURE — Allan Sly (Princeton)
Spatial shuffling: Large Cycles in the Interchange Process in dimension 5
BERGMAN LECTURE — Allan Sly (Princeton)
Stochastic Blocks Models: Detection and Recovery
PROBABILITY — Youngtak Sohn (Brown)
Stochastic block model with many communities
April
ANALYSIS — Yuefong Song (Stanford)
Fluids I
May
REPRESENTATION THEORY — Kenta Suzuki (MIT)
Fargues' categorical conjecture for elliptic parameters for SL(n)
NUMBER THEORY — Keerthi Madapusi (Boston College)
A new approach to p-Hecke correspondences and Rapoport-Zink spaces
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY — Jori Merikoski (Oxford)
On primes represented by aX2+bY3
KIDDIE COLLOQUIUM — Romain Speciel (Stanford)
Quergodicity
FACULTY AREA RESEARCH (FARS) — Sarah Peluse (Stanford)
Finding multidimensional configurations in subsets of the integer grid
NUMBER THEORY — Tongmu He (Princeton)
Pointwise perfectoidness of Shimura varieties at infinite level
PROBABILITY — Gabor Lugosi (Pompeu Fabra University)
Paths and cliques in random temporal graphs
KIDDIE COLLOQUIUM — Stepan Kazanin (Stanford)
Classification Theorems
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE — Martin Bridson (University of Oxford)
Profinite rigidity: Chasing finite shadows of infinite groups through geometry
PROBABILITY — Zhenyuan Zhang (Stanford)
On the first passage times of spatial branching processes
NUMBER THEORY — Kiseok Yeon (UC Davis)
On forms in many variables of different degrees
KIDDIE COLLOQUIUM — Shintaro Fushida-Hardy (Stanford)
Introduction to Pencil Puzzles
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM — Joshua Zahl (UBC)
The Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions
TOPOLOGY — Scotty Tilton (UCSD)
Exotic Diffeomorphisms: A Conversation Between Equivariant Stable Homotopy and Spin Four-Manifolds
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY — Carlo Pagano (Concordia University)
2-descent in polynomial twist families
COMBINATORICS — Richard Stanley (MIT & Miami)
Some combinatorial applications of cyclotomic polynomials
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM — Carlo Pagano (Concordia University)
Hilbert's 10th problem via additive combinatorics
FACULTY AREA RESEARCH (FARS) — Jan Vondrak (Stanford)
The "core" conjecture for approval-based elections
June
NUMBER THEORY — David Zywina (Cornell)
There are infinitely many elliptic curves over the rationals of rank 2
PROBABILITY — Chun Yin Siu (Stanford Psychiatry)
Random topology: The topology of preferential attachment graphs
KIDDIE COLLOQUIUM — Milo Marsden (Stanford University)
Eigenvalues of Wigner Matrices: A dip into Random Matrix Theory
REPRESENTATION THEORY — Jeremy Taylor (UC Berkeley)
The universal monodromic Bezrukavnikov equivalence
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM — Aravind Asok (USC)
Constructing projective modules
MAA MathFest 2025. Sacramento, CA Aug 6–9.
Martin Gardner Lecture — Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
The Magic of Charles Sanders Peirce