Colloquia

Past Events

Journey to the Center of the Earth (Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington) - May 17, 2024
Harmonic Functions and Beyond (YanYan Li, Rutgers University) - May 10, 2024
Seeing the forest for the trees (Anna Gilbert, Yale University) - April 5, 2024
Stable polynomials and Fourier quasicrystals (Cynthia Vinzant, University of Washington) - March 1, 2024
Elliptic integrals, modular forms, and the Weierstrass zeta-function (Mario Bonk, University of California, Los Angeles) - February 9, 2024
Reconstructing simplicial polytopes from partial information (Isabella Novik, University of Washington) - January 26, 2024
The local-global conjecture for Apollonian circle packings is false (Katherine E. Stange (University of Colorado, Boulder)) - December 1, 2023
Hitting the High-D(imensional) Notes: Stochastic Gradient Descent Learning Dynamics (Courtney Paquette (McGill University)) - November 17, 2023
Local to global principles in orbits, and applications (Alex Kontorovich (Rutgers University)) - November 2, 2023
When do varieties map to each other? (Mihnea Popa (Harvard University)) - October 13, 2023
Intersection theory of moduli spaces of curves (Hannah Larson (University of California, Berkeley)) - October 6, 2023
Uniformity in Diophantine Geometry (Lars Kühne, University of Copenhagen) - May 26, 2023
Group actions, algebra up to homotopy, and flavors of commutativity (Mike Hill, University of California, Los Angeles) - May 19, 2023
Geometry of surface group homomorphisms (Emily Dumas, University of Illinois at Chicago) - May 5, 2023
On Unirationality of hypersurfaces (Roya Beheshti Zavareh, Washington University in St. Louis) - April 7, 2023
Take a residue, leave a residue (Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University) - March 31, 2023
Ramsey graphs and additive combinatorics without addition (Jacob Fox, Stanford University) - March 3, 2023
Localization Schemes: A Framework for proving mixing bounds in Markov chains (Ronen Eldan, Microsoft Research) - February 17, 2023
Renormalized Volume and Area for Poincaré-Einstein Spaces (Robin Graham, University of Washington) - February 10, 2023
Algorithms for optimization, inference, sampling of random probability measures (Andrea Montanari, Stanford University) - February 3, 2023
Expressive curves (Sergey Fomin, University of Michigan) - January 13, 2023
The underlying topology of data (Jose Perea, Northeastern University) - November 18, 2022
Understanding graphs locally (Annie Raymond, UMass Amherst) - November 4, 2022
Equiangular lines and eigenvalue multiplicities (Yufei Zhao, MIT) - October 28, 2022
Rigidity and uniformity and algebraic dynamics (Laura DeMarco, Harvard) - October 7, 2022
Gradeless: Grade Less; Teach More (Ileanu Vasu, Holyoke Community College) - June 3, 2022
Infinite-type surfaces (Priyam Patel, University of Utah) - May 20, 2022
A Discussion of a Generalization of the Multilinear Kakeya Theorem (Bobby Wilson, UW) - May 6, 2022
How to Obfuscate Computer Programs Mathematically? (Rachel Lin, UW) - April 29, 2022
Curvature flows toward optimal geometric inequalities (Pengfei Guan, McGill University) - April 15, 2022
Nonlinear PDEs in Lagrangian geometry (Arunima Bhattacharya, UW) - November 19, 2021
Some examples of homological mirror symmetry (Heather Lee) - November 12, 2021
Geometric realization of cyclically branched covers over spheres (Dami Lee) - October 22, 2021
New Postdoc Quick Introductions (Sheela Devadas, Lijun Ding, Tim Duff, Andrea Ottolini, Hadrian Quan, and Xueying Yu, UW) - October 15, 2021
Hidden Figures, Service Learning, and Mathematical Community (Ranthony Edmonds, Ohio State) - June 4, 2021
Machine Problem Solving (Daniel Selsam, Microsoft Research) - May 21, 2021
Mathematics Teacher Performance Assessments Across Contexts (Elese Washines, Program manager for the Yakama Nation Higher Education Program) - April 30, 2021
Teaching and Learning Brown Bag: Emphasizing concepts and geometry in linear algebra without proofs (Patrick Perkins, Rekha Thomas and Bianca Viray) - April 15, 2021
PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (John Baez, University of California, Riverside) - April 8, 2021
PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (Lauren Williams, Harvard University) - March 11, 2021
PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (Ben Green, University of Oxford) - February 11, 2021
Strongly Rayleigh Distributions and a (slightly) Improved Approximation algorithm for Metric TSP (Shayan Oveis Gharan, University of Washington) - February 5, 2021
CANCELED: PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University) - January 21, 2021
Variational Analysis and Optimization (Tyrell Rockafellar, University of Washington) - January 15, 2021
Teaching and Learning Brown Bag: Should we ask or should we tell? (José M. Guzmán, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington) - January 14, 2021
Systems biology approaches in infectious disease and cell biology (John Aitchison, Center for Global Infectious Disease at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington) - May 22, 2020
COVID Math: trailing indicators, leading indicators, math models, and stats models (Abraham Flaxman, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) - April 17, 2020
CANCELED: Symmetries of shift systems (Bryna Kra, Northwestern University) - March 13, 2020
3264 Conics in A Second (Bernd Sturmfels, MPI Leipzig / UC Berkeley) - February 18, 2020
Mathematical sense and nonsense outside the classroom: How well are we preparing our students to tell the difference? (Robert Megginson, University of Michigan) - February 14, 2020
On $C^{2,\alpha}$ estimates for levels sets of Allen-Cahn equation (Jun-Cheng Wei, University of British Columbia) - December 6, 2019
Graph Density Inequalities and Sums of Squares (Rekha Thomas, University of Washington) - November 22, 2019
Heights and moments of abelian varieties (Farbod Shokrieh, University of Washington) - November 8, 2019
Recent progress in birational geometry in positive characteristics (Christopher Hacon, University of Utah) - October 11, 2019
A Year at Google Research (Jake Levinson, University of Washington) - October 4, 2019
The Amazing Power of Dimensional Analysis in Finance: Market Impact and the Intraday Trading Invariance Hypothesis (Walter Schachermayer, University of Vienna) - May 31, 2019
Topology in neuroscience: some examples from neural coding and neural networks (Carina Curto, Penn State University) - May 17, 2019
Progress on Kahler-Ricci flow (Gang Tian, Peking University) - May 3, 2019
Lagrange's Identity and Apportionment of the U. S. House of Representatives (Tommy Wright, US Census Bureau) - April 29, 2019
The stability of Kerr-de Sitter space and global analysis (András Vasy, Stanford University) - April 26, 2019
Geometry of the Phase Retrieval Problem (Charles Epstein, University of Pennsylvania) - April 5, 2019
Nonlinear detection of connections (Gabriel Paternain, University of Cambridge) - March 15, 2019
Equations and Algebraic Geometry in Groups and Algebras (Olga Kharlampovich, Hunter College CUNY) - February 22, 2019
Ranks, lines, progressions, and sets (Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin–Madison) - November 30, 2018
Patterns in Standard Young Tableaux (Sara Billey, University of Washington) - November 16, 2018
What is the shape of a rational map? (Sarah Koch, University of Michigan) - October 12, 2018
Fifty years in mathematics: A minority perspective (William Vélez, University of Arizona) - October 5, 2018
From lecture to active learning: Rewards for all, and is it really so difficult? (David Pengelley, Oregon State University) - May 18, 2018
The large-scale geometry of the Hitchin moduli space (Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University) - May 11, 2018
Coloring maps on surfaces (Ian Agol, UC Berkeley) - April 27, 2018
5 points on the sphere (Richard Schwartz, Brown University) - April 20, 2018
How to remedy unintended bias: “Stop it!” vs. “Document it” (Anthony Greenwald, University of Washington) - April 13, 2018
Applications of functoriality (Emily Riehl, Johns Hopkins University) - April 6, 2018
Using Mathematics to Unlock Biological Mysteries (Candice Price, University of San Diego) - March 30, 2018
Mathematical Adventures with Knitting Machines (Fabienne Serriere, KnitYak.com) - November 17, 2017
Using mathematics to fight cancer (Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College) - October 20, 2017
Toroidal Belyĭ pairs, Toroidal graphs, and their monodromy groups (Edray Goins, Purdue University) - October 6, 2017
Optimal transportation between unequal dimensions (Robert McCann, University of Toronto) - June 2, 2017
Equidistribution of Shapes of Number Fields of degree 3, 4, and 5 (Piper Harron, University of Hawaii at Manoa) - May 26, 2017
T-duality and Mirror Symmetry (Mohammed Abouzaid, Columbia University) - May 5, 2017
[Video] Of Triangles, Gases, Prices and Men (Cédric Villani, Institut Henri Poincaré & Université de Lyon) - May 1, 2017
Scattering by the sphere (Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley) - April 28, 2017
Tamagawa Numbers and Factorization Homology (Jacob Lurie, Harvard University) - April 21, 2017
Isometric Embedding of 2-dim Riemannian Manifolds in Euclidean 3-Space (Qing Han, University of Notre Dame) - April 7, 2017
[Video] On the Approximation of Laplacian Eigenvalues in Graph Disaggregation (John Urschel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - March 28, 2017
Quantum Symmetry (Chelsea Walton, Temple University) - March 10, 2017
Poset topology meets combinatorial representation theory (Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University) - February 10, 2017
Alex Wright from Stanford University - November 18, 2016
Renzo Cavalieri from Colorado State University - November 10, 2016
Steven Lalley from University of Chicago - November 4, 2016
Frank Farris from Santa Clara University - October 21, 2016
June Huh from Princeton University - April 22, 2016
Katherine E. Stange from University of Colorado, Boulder - April 1, 2016
Dusa McDuff from Barnard College - March 4, 2016
Brian Conrad from Stanford University - February 12, 2016
Jennifer McLoud-Mann from University of Washington, Bothell - November 20, 2015
Sham M. Kakade from University of Washington - November 13, 2015
Ivan Corwin from Columbia University and the Clay Mathematics Institute - October 16, 2015
[Video] Amnon Yekutieli from Ben Gurion University - October 2, 2015
Catherine Williams, Chief Data Scientist at AppNexus - May 8, 2015
Michelle Wachs from University of Miami - May 1, 2015
Lauren Williams from University of California, Berkeley - March 6, 2015
Mark Rudelson from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - February 20, 2015
Andrea R. Nahmod from University of Massachusetts Amherst - November 21, 2014
Christopher D. Hacon from The University of Utah - October 31, 2014
Marianna Csörnyei from The University of Chicago - October 17, 2014
Ravi Ramakrishna from Cornell University - June 6, 2014
Gene Abrams from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs - May 23, 2014
Shige Peng from Shandong University - May 19, 2014
Victor Reiner from University of Minnesota - May 16, 2014
Dan Spielman from Yale Institute for Network Science (Joint Math/CSE Colloquim and CORE Seminar) - May 8, 2014
Steffen Rohde from University of Washington - May 2, 2014
Roman Bezrukavnikov from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - April 18, 2014
Dan Shumow from Senior SDE at Microsoft Research - April 18, 2014
Neal Koblitz from University of Washington - March 7, 2014
Bianca Viray from Brown University - January 13, 2014
Wei Ho from Columbia University - January 10, 2014
[Video] Gil Kalai from Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - November 22, 2013
[Video] Greg Blekherman from Georgia Institute of Technology - October 25, 2013
[Video] Yuval Peres, Principal Researcher and Theory Group Manager at Microsoft Research - May 17, 2013
[Video] S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan from New York University's Courant Institute - May 10, 2013
[Video] Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Data Scientist at Johnson Research Labs - March 20, 2013
[Video] Gerald Folland from University of Washington - February 22, 2013
Exotic spheres and topological modular forms (Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - February 4, 2013
[Video] Thomas Rothvoss from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - February 1, 2013
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy from Cornell University - January 29, 2013
Katya Krupchyk from University of Helsinki - January 28, 2013
[Video] Fredrik Viklund from Columbia University - January 25, 2013
Reinier Bröker from Brown University - January 22, 2013
[Video] Mathias Drton from UW Statistics Department - January 18, 2013
[Video] Max Warshauer from Texas State University - November 16, 2012
[Video] Matthew Kahle from Ohio State University - October 5, 2012
[Video] Bruce Reznick from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - May 18, 2012
[Video] Christopher Hacon from University of Utah - April 6, 2012
[Video] Jonathan Brundan from University of Oregon - March 9, 2012
[Video] Edward Witten from Institute for Advanced Study - February 17, 2012
[Video] Kristin Lauter from Microsoft Research and University of Washington - January 13, 2012
[Video] On the Topology of Black Holes (Greg Galloway, University of Miami) - November 8, 2011
[Video] Two Needles in Exponential Haystacks (Joel Spencer, New York University) - October 14, 2011
The Static and Stochastic Ising Models (Eyal Lubetzky, Microsoft Research and UW) - May 20, 2011
From Hilbert's 17th Problem to Polynomial Optimization and Convex Algebraic Geometry (Rekha Thomas, University of Washington) - April 29, 2011
Testing the Manifold Hypothesis (Hariharan Narayanan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - March 29, 2011
[Video] The Critical Probability of Percolation: Percolation on Self-Dual Polygon Configurations (Béla Bollobás, University of Cambridge, University of Memphis, and Microsoft ) - February 18, 2011
[Video] A Survey of Alternating Permutations (Richard Stanley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - January 14, 2011
Birational Classification of Algebraic Varieties (Christopher Hacon, University of Utah) - November 23, 2010
[Video] Potential Theory Meets Geometric Measure Theory (Tatiana Toro, University of Washington) - October 29, 2010
The Geometry of Reimann's Theta Functions (Sebastian Casalaina-Martin, University of Colorado, Boulder) - October 15, 2010
[Video] Quasirandom Processes (Jim Propp, University of Massachusetts Lowell) - May 28, 2010
[Video] The Optimization Work of Paul Tseng (Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo, University of Minnesota) - May 7, 2010
[Video] Generalizing the Cross Ratio: The Moduli Space of n Points on the Projective Line Up to Projective Equivalence (Ravi Vakil, Stanford University) - April 30, 2010
[Video] Weak Solution Concepts for Nonlinear Elliptic PDE and Associated Regularity (Neil Trudinger, Australian National University) - April 16, 2010
[Video] Issues in Multivariate Polynomial Interpolation (Carl de Boor, University of Wisconsin and UW (affiliate) ) - February 5, 2010
[Video] Growth Rates and Explosions in Sandpiles (Lionel Levine, M.I.T. and Microsoft Research ) - January 29, 2010
[Video] Random Sorting Networks (Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia & Microsoft Research) - January 15, 2010
[Video] Cloaking and Transformation Optics (Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington) - November 20, 2009
[Video] Character Formulas (Bill Fulton, University of Michigan ) - November 6, 2009
Shuffling Cards and Adding Numbers (Persi Diaconis, Stanford University) - October 23, 2009

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