Mathematics — talks (attended)
See here for the talks I attended in 2025.
See here for upcoming events at Stanford University, Department of Mathematics.
Stanford University, Math Department Talks
March
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM — Hong Wang (NYU Courant and IHES)
MRC Distinguished Lecture: A survey of Stein's restriction conjecture
NUMBER THEORY — Akshat Mudgal (Warwick)
Generalised sum-product phenomenon and a question of Bremner
ANALYSIS & PDE — Josh Zahl (Chern Institute)
Nikodym sets, maximal functions, and local smoothing
April
STUDENT ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY — Junho Peter Whang (Seoul National University)
On indefinite integral ternary quadratic forms
COMBINATORICS — Mehtaab Sawhney (Columbia University; Open AI)
On the Maxima of Littlewood Polynomials
COMBINATORICS — Mehtaab Sawhney (Columbia University; Open AI)
The Portion of Permutations fixing a k-Set
REPRESENTATION THEORY — George Lusztig (MIT)
Fourier transform as a triangular matrix
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM — Nikos Frantzikinakis (University of Crete)
Quadratic Ramsey theory: old questions, new ideas
NUMBER THEORY — Stepan Nesterov (Stanford)
Cyclic covers of the projective line and PSL(n,q) as Galois groups
REPRESENTATION THEORY — Xuhua He (Hong Kong University)
Positivity of Canonical Bases
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM — Tony Feng (UC Berkeley; Google DeepMind)
The rise and ramifications of Artificial Mathematical Intelligence
COMBINATORICS — Maya Sankar (IAS)
Entropy Methods for Rainbow Triangles and Properly Colored Cliques
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM — Josh Zahl (Chern Institute of Mathematics)
The Besicovitch compression phenomenon and the Kakeya set conjecture
May
NUMBER THEORY — Sean Howe (Utah)
p-adic twistors and applications
TOPOLOGY — Nathan Dunfield (UIUC)
Roots of Alexander polynomials of random positive 3-braids