Previous semesters

Spring 2026

Date Name Affiliation Title
January 21 Camilo Sanabria Malagón Universidad de los Andes Schwarz maps for modular curves
February 25 Perrine Jouteur Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne Quantum deformation of rational numbers, a combinatorial perspective
March 25 Andrea Gallese Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa How to compute the connected monodromy field of a CM abelian variety
April 1 Euiyong Park University of Seoul Monodial Categorification 1
April 8 Caylee Spivey University of Connecticut The distribution of k-free ideals in generalized arithmetic progressions
April 15 Euiyong Park University of Seoul Monodial Categorification 2
April 22 Euiyong Park University of Seoul Monodial Categorification 3
April 29 Linus Rösler École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) On Seshadri constants of adjoint divisors on surfaces and threefolds in arbitrary characteristic

Fall 2025

Date Name Affiliation Title
September 3 Rebecca Bellovin, Keith Conrad, Mihai Fulger University of Connecticut Faculty introductions
September 10 Mihai Fulger University of Connecticut A Newton-Okounkov body for products of curves
September 24 Khrystyna Serhiyenko University of Kentucky Consistent dimer models on surfaces with boundary
October 1 Kate Finnerty Boston University Quadratic Chabauty for Genus 2 Bielliptic Modular Curves
October 15 Blake Jackson University of Connecticut Machine learning and artificial intelligence in combinatorics research
October 29 Yaacov Kopeliovich University of Connecticut On the curve X(9) - The congruence subgroup of level 9 in PSL_2(Z)
November 12 Bhargavi Parthasarathy Syracuse University Homomorphisms of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over the cone of an elliptic curve
December 3 Zack Porat Wesleyan University On the Cuspidal Cohomology of Congruence Subgroups of SL(3, Z)

Fall 2024

Date Name Affiliation Title
August 29 Kyu-Hwan Lee, Álvaro Lozano-Robledo, and Ralf Schiffler University of Connecticut Faculty introductions
September 4 Linli Shi University of Connecticut On higher regulators of Picard modular surfaces
September 11 Mihai Fulger University of Connecticut Reading geometric invariants from Newton-Okounkov bodies
September 18 Linli Shi University of Connecticut Regularized periods of some Eisenstein series
September 25 Yaacov Kopeliovich University of Connecticut Generalizations of Teitelbaum's lambda function to super-elliptic Mumford curves
October 4 (on a Friday) Steven Creech Brown University Bounds on Hecke Eigenvalues over Quadratic Progressions and Mass Equidistribution on Cocompact Surfaces
October 9 Julia Bernatska University of Connecticut Explicit computation of characteristics quantities of non-hyperelliptic curves
October 16 Marcella Manivel University of Minnesota Automorphic Differential Operators and Zeros of Zeta
October 23 Feliks Rączka Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Frobenius pushforwards of vector bundles on projective spaces
October 30 Griff Elder University of Connecticut Recent results in (local, additive) Galois module theory
November 6 Barinder Banwait Boston University Machine learning approaches to the Shafarevich-Tate group of elliptic curves
November 13 Michael Chitayat University of Ottawa Rationality of Pham-Brieskorn varieties
November 20 Benjamin Oltsik University of Connecticut Basic monomial ideals
December 4 Grant Moles Union College Factorization relationships between number rings and their orders

Spring 2024

Date Name Affiliation Title
January 17 Asimina Hamakiotes University of Connecticut Elliptic curves with complex multiplication and abelian division fields
February 21 Kayla Wright University of Minnesota 🌱 Higher Dimers, Webs and Grassmannian Cluster Algebras 🌱
February 28 Juanita Duque-Rosero Boston University Triangular modular curves
March 6
Francesco Bastianelli
 Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro" Moving curves of least gonality on symmetric products of curves
March 20 Türkü Özlüm Çelik Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey Riemann Theta Functions today
March 27 Andrei Bud Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Results in Prym-Brill-Noether theory
April 3 Blake Jackson University of Connecticut A topology on the poset of quiver mutation classes
April 17 (special time 7pm) Tohru Nakashima Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan Seshadri constants and AG codes from vector bundles

Fall 2023

 

Date Name Affiliation Title
August 30 Keith Conrad, Mihai Fulger, Thomas Roby University of Connecticut Faculty Introductions
September 6 Mihai Fulger University of Connecticut Computing volumes on some 3-folds
September 20 Julia Bernatska University of Connecticut Extension of Igusa’s map to vanishing modular forms
September 27 Yaacov Kopeliovich University of Connecticut The fundamental group of Algebraic curves as branched covers of the Sphere
October 4 Ralf Schiffler University of Connecticut Higher dimer covers of snake graphs and higher continued fractions
October 9 (non-standard) Lori Watson Trinity College Minimal torsion curves in geometric isogeny classes
October 18 Jonathan Boretsky Harvard University The totally nonnegative Tropical Flag Variety
October 25 Blake Jackson University of Connecticut Answering two OPAC problems involving Banff quivers
November 1 Amanda Burcroff Harvard University Dyck path expansion formulas for rank 2 cluster algebras
November 8 Benjamin Oltsik University of Connecticut Symbolic defect for monomial ideals
November 29 Mihai Pavel Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy Moduli spaces of sheaves in higher dimensions

 

Past semesters (Spring 2019 – Spring 2023)

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