Seminars and colloquia

E.g., Jun 15, 2025

Jordan Ellenberg

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Smyth's conjecture and a non-deterministic Hasse principle

May 26, 2025 - 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

TBA

The matrix ( 3 -3 4 -4 5 -5 0 0 4 -4 -3 3 0 0 5 -5 -5 5 0 0 -3 3 -4 4 ) has an interesting property. Can you see what it is? In case this puzzle is not enough information about the talk: I will explain how to prove a conjecture of Smyth from 1986 about linear relations between ... Read more
  • Number Theory

Jordan Ellenberg

University of Wisconsin–Madison
From malaria to ChatGPT: the birth and strange life of the random walk

May 27, 2025 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

GEOG 100

Between 1905 and 1910 the idea of the random walk, now a major topic in applied math, was invented simultaneously and independently by multiple people in multiple countries for completely different purposes, from mosquito control to physics to finance to winning a theological ... Read more


2025 PIMS-CRM Summer School in Probability

June 2, 2025 - 9:00 am to June 27, 2025 - 6:00 pm

University of British Columbia

Course Descriptions: Main course: Tom Hutchcroft Title: Dimension dependence of critical phenomena in percolation Main course: Mathav Murugan Title: Heat kernel estimates and Harnack ... Read more
  • Probability


Sep5 colloquium: reserved for MDU

September 5, 2025 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Sep12 colloquium: reserved for MDU

September 12, 2025 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Sep19 colloquium: reserved for MDU

September 19, 2025 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Olver Sheehan


Sep26 colloquium: Olver Sheehan

September 26, 2025 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Oct3 colloquium: reserved for MDU

October 3, 2025 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Oct10 colloquium: reserved for MDU

October 10, 2025 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Oct17 FREE SLOT colloquium

October 17, 2025 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

If you happen to have a visitor at this time who excels in giving talks in addition to being a talented researcher, we would greatly appreciate it if you could let us know. Read more