Department of Mathematics

University of California, San Diego

Seminars and Colloquia: Week of November 30, 2025 - December 06, 2025

Seminar and Colloquia Abstracts:

Weekly Seminars

Other Abstracts:

https://math.ucsd.edu/news-events/seminars

SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 30, 2025

No events scheduled for this day.

MONDAY - DECEMBER 01, 2025

Math 196 - Undergraduate Mathematics Colloquium

Date - Time:
12/01/2025 - 03:00 PM
Location:
APM 6402
Speaker:
Prof. Lutz Warnke - UCSD
Title:
The Probabilistic Method in Combinatorics

TUESDAY - DECEMBER 02, 2025

Math 278A: Center for Computational Mathematics Seminar

Date - Time:
12/02/2025 - 11:00 AM
Location:
APM 2402 Zoom ID 975 1565 7226
Speaker:
Anjali Nair - University of Chicago
Title:
Splitting algorithms for high frequency waves in random media

Math 243: Seminar in Functional Analysis

Date - Time:
12/02/2025 - 11:00 AM
Location:
APM 6402
Speaker:
Daniel Drimbe - University of Iowa
Title:
Von Neumann equivalence rigidity

Advancement to Candidacy

Date - Time:
12/02/2025 - 02:00 PM
Location:
APM 5829
Speaker:
Mingyu Liu -
Title:
Finding Minimal Energy Paths: Numerical Algorithms and Convergence Analysis

Math 248: Real Analysis Seminar

Date - Time:
12/02/2025 - 03:00 PM
Location:
APM 6402
Speaker:
Dr. Daniele Struppa - Chapman University
Title:
Superoscillations, supershift, analyticity

WEDNESDAY - DECEMBER 03, 2025

Math 248: Real Analysis Seminar

Date - Time:
12/03/2025 - 11:00 AM
Location:
Zoom (Meeting ID: 969 7915 9409)
Speaker:
Francesco Triggiano - Scuola Normale Superiore
Title:
Dissipative solutions to 3D stochastic Euler equations

Math 278C: Optimization Seminar

Date - Time:
12/03/2025 - 12:00 PM
Location:
Zoom (Meeting ID:926 5846 1639 / Password: OPT25FA)
Speaker:
Dr. Kate Wenqi Zhu - Oxford University
Title:
Beyond Second Order Methods for Nonconvex Optimization

Final Defense

Date - Time:
12/03/2025 - 05:00 PM
Location:
APM 7321 & Zoom (Meeting ID: 944 9718 8819 / Password: Diffeo)
Speaker:
Scotty Tilton - UC San Diego
Title:
The boundary Dehn twist on a punctured connected sum of two K3 surfaces is exotic

THURSDAY - DECEMBER 04, 2025

Math 288: Probability & Statistics

Date - Time:
12/04/2025 - 11:00 AM
Location:
APM 6402
Speaker:
Kevin Ren - Princeton University
Title:
Reconstruction of Manifold Distances from Noisy Observations

Advancement to Candidacy

Date - Time:
12/04/2025 - 12:00 PM
Location:
APM 7218
Speaker:
Hugo Jenkins - UC San Diego
Title:
Mapping class group action on representation and character varieties

Date - Time:
12/04/2025 - 02:00 PM
Location:
APM 7321
Speaker:
Zhao Mei Zheng - The University of Sydney
Title:
Modelling the transmission of Coxiella burnetii in dairy cattle herds

Mathematics Colloquium

Date - Time:
12/04/2025 - 04:00 PM
Location:
APM 6402 & Zoom (Meeting ID: 926 5846 1639 / Password: OPT25FA)
Speaker:
Prof. Frank E. Curtis - Lehigh University
Title:
Almost-Sure Convergence and Active-Set Identification by Stochastic Algorithms for Constrained Optimization

FRIDAY - DECEMBER 05, 2025

Math 278B: Mathematics of Information, Data, and Signals

Date - Time:
12/05/2025 - 11:00 AM
Location:
APM 6402
Speaker:
Tony Chiang - University of Washington
Title:
A peek through the looking glass: understanding latent embedding spaces and how we can use them

Math 208: Seminar in Algebraic Geometry

Date - Time:
12/05/2025 - 04:00 PM
Location:
APM 7321
Speaker:
Dr. José González - UC Riverside
Title:
The Chow ring of a wonderful compactification

SATURDAY - DECEMBER 06, 2025

No events scheduled for this day.