Mathematics — talks (attended)
See here for the talks I attended in 2025.
See here for upcoming events at MIT, Department of Mathematics.
Stanford University, Math Department Talks
March (3)
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 (10)
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 (14)
NUMBER THEORY — Sean Howe (Utah)
p-adic twistors and applications
TOPOLOGY — Nathan Dunfield (UIUC)
Roots of Alexander polynomials of random positive 3-braids
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY — Nathan Chen (Harvard University)
Characterizing algebraic varieties through symmetries
KIDDIE COLLOQUIUM — Qianhe Qin (Stanford)
To Be a Zootopologist: Cork or Spork?
REPRESENTATION THEORY — Rahul Dalal (Succinct)
Automorphic Representations and Optimal Quantum Logic Gates
NUMBER THEORY — Amichai Lampert (University of Michigan)
Polynomial bounds for Birch's theorem on forms
PROBABILITY — Sarah Peluse (Stanford)
Statistics of character tables of symmetric groups
KIDDIE COLLOQUIUM — Daniel Kim (Stanford)
Shimura varieties and the Langlands program
COMBINATORICS — Boris Bukh (OpenAI and CMU)
Faster random walk via infrequent steering
DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM — Yu Deng (University of Chicago)
Long time derivation of Boltzmann equation from hard sphere dynamics
NUMBER THEORY — Jeremy Booher (University of Florida)
Iwasawa theory of Frobenius-torsion class group schemes
NUMBER THEORY — Lue Pan (University of Michigan)
Plectic Galois action on the cohomology of Hilbert modular varieties
TOPOLOGY — Danny Ruberman (Brandeis University)
Equivalent exotic surfaces in small 4-manifolds
MRC PUBLIC LECTURE — Richard Schwartz (Brown University)
Paper Geometry & Optimization
June (3)
KIDDIE COLLOQUIUM — Travor Liu (Stanford)
Binary Quadratic Forms and the Zeros of Epstein's Zeta Function
PROBABILITY — Andrew Lin (Stanford)
High-dimensional permutons: Theory and applications
STUDENT ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY — Noah Kravitz (Oxford)
The structure of sets with few subset sums
MIT Math Department Talks
Sep (1)
NUMBER THEORY — Benjamin Church (MIT)
p-adic Siegel disks on K3 surfaces