Getting Ready to Defend: steps beyond the math

Krieger 413

Are you getting ready for your PhD defence in the 2024–2025 academic year? Join math faculty and staff for a review of the expected timeline and administrative tasks related to defending your thesis. The presentation will introduce you to key offices on campus that are involved in the process, and overview of required paperwork, thesis […]

Preparing for the Academic Job Market

Krieger 413

Join a panel of postdocs and junior faculty to learn about their recent experiences navigating the academic job market. They will discuss preparation of CV, research statements and related documents, expectations for interviews and more. Please come with questions! There will be time for Q&A.

Thesis Defense: Nikki Wang

Krieger 413

Title: Studies on a Semilinear Heat Equation with Degenerate Coefficients

Thesis Defense: Sean Owen

Krieger 413 & Zoom

Title: On Absolute Riemann-Roch and Rings of mu-Polynomials

Category Theory Seminar: Marino Gran (Université catholique de Louvain)

Krieger 413

Title: An introduction to pretorsion theories (based on the collaboration with Alberto Facchini, Carmelo Finocchiaro, Francis Borceux, Federico Campanini, Aline Michel and Walter Tholen) Abstract: The notion of pretorsion theory is a natural extension of the classical notion of torsion theory in an abelian category. The idea is to associate, with any pair (T , F) […]

Category Theory Seminar: Nadja Egner (Université catholique de Louvain)

Krieger 413

Title: Galois theory and homology in quasi-abelian functor categories Abstract: The aim of this talk is to give an introduction to the categorical theory of (higher) central extensions and of generalized Hopf formulae for homology, and to apply these methods to the study of, in particular, the category Grpdn(A) of internal n-fold groupoids in a […]

Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Shaoyun Bai (MIT)

Krieger 504

Title: Cohomological splitting of fibrations over rationally connected basesAbstract: A classical result of Blanchard and Deligne asserts that the rational cohomology of a smooth projective fibration splits additively. In this talk, I will discuss how to prove an analogous result for cohomology with coefficients in fields of positive characteristics. Although the splitting in this setting does not […]