Department of Mathematics
University of California, San Diego
Seminars and Colloquia: Week of May 17, 2026 - May 23, 2026
Seminar and Colloquia Abstracts:
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SUNDAY - MAY 17, 2026
No events scheduled for this day.
MONDAY - MAY 18, 2026
No events scheduled for this day.
TUESDAY - MAY 19, 2026
Math 248: Real Analysis Seminar
Date - Time:
05/19/2026 - 11:00 AM
Location:
APM 7321
Speaker:
Prof. James M. Scott - Auburn University
Title:
Nonlocal Models: Theory and Applications
Math 243: Functional Analysis Seminar
Date - Time:
05/19/2026 - 11:00 AM
Location:
APM 6402
Speaker:
Dr. Asuman Aksoy - Claremont McKenna College
Title:
From Classical Approximation to Banach Space Geometry: The Evolution of Bernstein’s Lethargy Theorem
PhD Defense
Date - Time:
05/19/2026 - 01:00 PM
Location:
APM 7218
Speaker:
Christopher Xue - UC San Diego
Title:
Hochschild cohomology of $p$-adic Lie groups
PhD Defense
Date - Time:
05/19/2026 - 02:00 PM
Location:
Franklin Antonio Hall 3002 (Zoom Meeting ID: 981 5645 1361)
Speaker:
Johnny Jingze Li - UC San Diego
Title:
A Calculus of Emergence: Nonlinearity, Hierarchy, and Neural Computation
WEDNESDAY - MAY 20, 2026
Math 278C: Optimization and Data Science
Date - Time:
05/20/2026 - 04:00 PM
Location:
APM B412 & Zoom (Meeting ID: 926 5846 1639 / PW: 278CWN26)
Speaker:
Prof. Tingting Tang - San Diego State University
Title:
When algebra meets gradient descent: certifying the loss landscape of neural networks through algebraic geometry
Math 209: Number Theory Seminar
Date - Time:
05/20/2026 - 04:00 PM
Location:
APM 7321
Speaker:
Brandon Alberts - Eastern Michigan U.
Title:
Number Field Counting via Multiple Dirichlet Series
THURSDAY - MAY 21, 2026
Math 288: Probability & Statistics
Date - Time:
05/21/2026 - 11:00 AM
Location:
APM 6402
Speaker:
Mike Cranston - UCI
Title:
The Riemann zeta Process and Precise Large Deviations
Date - Time:
05/21/2026 - 12:00 PM
Location:
APM 7218
Speaker:
Sarah Kumar - UC San Diego
Title:
Advancement to Candidacy
Final Defense
Date - Time:
05/21/2026 - 05:00 PM
Location:
APM 7218 & Zoom (Meeting ID: 971 6903 3262)
Speaker:
Arijit Chakraborty - University of California San Diego
Title:
Power-saving Error Terms In Counting Number Fields By Discriminants
FRIDAY - MAY 22, 2026
PhD Defense
Date - Time:
05/22/2026 - 02:00 PM
Location:
APM 7321
Speaker:
David Gao - UC San Diego
Title:
Applications of Ultraproduct Methods in Operator Algebras
Math 208: Seminar in Algebraic Geometry
Date - Time:
05/22/2026 - 04:00 PM
Location:
APM 7321
Speaker:
Shubhankar Sahai - UC San Diego
Title:
The syntomification of Frobenius liftable schemes
SATURDAY - MAY 23, 2026
No events scheduled for this day.
