All Seminars & Colloquia

Logic Seminar: A two-cardinal Ramsey operator on ideals

Thursday, 10/6/2022, 3:00pm - 11:59pm

Time: Thursday, October 6, 11:00 am-12:00 noon

Place: Smith 120

Speaker:  Philip White, GWU

Title: A two-cardinal Ramsey operator on ideals

Graduate Student Seminar-First Seminar of Semester

Wednesday, 10/5/2022, 8:00pm - 11:59pm

First Graduate Student Seminar

Wednesday, October 5th 4-5 p.m.

Philips 771  

Announcement: We are going to have our first graduate student experience seminar (the mandatory GSE seminar) — a graduate student mixer — next Wednesday. It will be a great opportunity for us to share our experience on teaching and research with our colleagues and get our questions and concerns rising in the first month of the Fall semester resolved. Professors will also join us.

Logic-Topology Seminar: Complexity in knot theory

Monday, 10/3/2022, 8:45pm - 11:59pm

Time: Monday, October 3, 4:45-6:00 pm

Place: Rome Hall 350

Speaker: Jozef Przytycki, GWU

Title: Complexity in knot theory

Applied Math Seminar-Mean-Field Games for Scalable Computation and Diverse Applications

Friday, 9/30/2022, 7:30pm - 11:59pm

Date and and Time: Friday,  Sep. 30th  , 3:30-4:30 pm

Place: Zoom

Zoom link: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/95630895609

Title: Mean-Field Games for Scalable Computation and Diverse Applications

Speaker(s): Wuchen Li (University of South Carolina, Mathematics)

Logic Seminar-Ultrapower construction of the hyperreals

Thursday, 9/15/2022, 3:00pm - 11:59pm

Time: Thursday, September 15, 11:00 am-12:00 noon

Place: Smith 120

Speaker:  Henry Klatt, GWU

Title: Ultrapower construction of the hyperreals

Combinatorics Seminar-Twisting Preregular Forms by 2-Cocycles

Friday, 9/9/2022, 8:00pm - 11:59pm

Title: Twisting Preregular Forms by 2-Cocycles

Speaker: Charlotte Ure, UVA
Date and time: Friday, September 9, 4–5 pm
Place: Rome 204

Abstract: As a dual notion to Drinfeld twists, the cocycle twist of a Hopf algebra is obtained by deforming the algebra structure. Furthermore, if the Hopf algebra acts on an algebra, one may twist the algebra by the same cocycle. In this talk, I will explain how this procedure relates to the construction of superpotential algebras associated to preregular forms and their Manin’s universal quantum groups.

Combinatorics and Algebra Seminar-The Sticky Matroid Conjecture

Wednesday, 7/6/2022, 7:00pm - 11:59pm

Title: The Sticky Matroid Conjecture

Speaker: Jaeho Shin, Korean Institute for Advanced Study
Date and time: Wednesday, July 6, 3-4 pm
Place: Phillips 736

Abstract: We show Kantor's conjecture (1974) holds in rank 4. This proves both the sticky matroid conjecture of Poljak and Turzík (1982) and the whole Kantor's conjecture, due to an argument of Bachem, Kern, and Bonin, and an equivalence argument of Hochstättler and Wilhelmi, respectively.

Combinatorics and Algebra Seminar-Random Groups in Combinatorics and Number Theory and Cokernels of Random Matrices

Friday, 4/29/2022, 7:00pm - 11:59pm

Title: Random Groups in Combinatorics and Number Theory and Cokernels of Random Matrices

Speaker: Nathan Kaplan, UC Irvine
Date and time: Friday, April 29, 3–4 pm
Place: Phillips 736

Abstract: How many sublattices of Zn have index at most X? If we choose such a lattice Λ at random, what is the probability that Zn/Λ is cyclic? Now let R be a random subring of Zn. What is the probability that Zn/R is cyclic?

Knots in Washington 49.75

Friday, 4/22/2022, 7:00pm - Sunday, 4/24/2022, 11:59pm

Date and Time: April 22-24

Place: Hybrid Smith 120 on April 22 and Rome 204 on April 23-24 (register for the zoom link)

Plenary Speakers

Colin C. Adams - Williams College - Friday April 22 3:05 PM-4:05 PM (EST)

Hyperbolicity and Turaev Hyperbolicity of Classical and Virtual Knots

 

Marithania Silvero - University of Seville - Friday April 22 4:55 PM - 5:45 PM (EST)

Computing Khovanov homotopy type of 4-braids in polynomial time

 

Colloquium-The Lorentz Gas and Quasicrystals

Friday, 4/22/2022, 6:00pm - 11:59pm

Speaker: Rodrigo Trevino (University of Maryland) 

Time: April 22, 2PM-3PM

Location: Phillips B152 (in person)