Seminars Spring 2026
| April 27-May 1, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Wednesday 4/29 | 2:00pm | Computational & Applied Math Seminar Immersed Finite Element Methods for 3D Interface Problems: Theory and Applications Xu Zhang, Oklahoma State University | Snow 306 |
| Thursday, 4/30 | 1:00pm | Math Department Honors Presentation MacMahon Symmetric Functions and Their Computation Saad Awan | Wescoe 4008 |
| Friday, 5/1 | 11:00am | Combinatorics Seminar Partitionability for the CD-Index Dan Guyer, University of Washington | Snow 306 |
| 12:00pm | GSO Seminar Random Matrices and Eigenvalues Yechan Hong | Snow 256 | |
| 12:30pm | Comprehensive Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree Adaptive Meshing in Hybrid Ensemble-Variational Data Assimilation Jeremiah Buenger | Snow 456 |
| April 20-April 24, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Wednesday 4/22 | 11:00am | Student Algebra Seminar Prismatic Cohomology in Char 0 and Char P: an Introduction Lei Yu | Snow 452 |
| 2:00pm | Computational & Applied Math Seminar Effect of Stress Triaxiality and Lode Angle Parameters on Ductile Fracture Using Phase Field Coupled Elasto-Plasticity Sumit Kumar, University of Kansas, Institute for Information Sciences | Snow 306 | |
| 3:00pm | Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar The "Good" Boussinesq Equation on the Half-Line With Robin Boundary Conditions Shivani Agarwal | Snow 306 | |
| Friday, 4/24 | 11:00am | Combinatorics Seminar Coxeter Frieze Patterns Chris Uchizono | Snow 306 |
| 2:00pm | Comprehensive Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree The Bernstein-Sato Polynomial over Numerical Semigroup Rings Chris Wong | Snow 456 |
| April 13-April 17, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Tuesday 4/14 | 4:30 pm | Math Department Honors Presentation Deep Learning Yuwen (Reeny) Huang | Snow 302 |
| Wednesday 4/15 | 2:00pm | Computational & Applied Math Seminar Scalable Two-level Domain Decomposition Methods for the Physics and Equality Constrained Artificial Neural Networks Sungmin Won | Snow 306 |
| 3:00pm | Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar Integrable Perturbation Theory for Dark Solitons Nicholas Ossi, State University of New York at Buffalo Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/86451789662 Passcode: 0000 | Zoom | |
| Friday, 4/17 | 11:00am | Combinatorics Seminar An Introduction to Schubert Calculus Reuven Hodges | Snow 306 |
| April 6-April 10, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Wednesday 4/8 | 11:00am | Student Algebra Seminar Piecewise Polynomials on Simplicial Fans and Stanley-Reisner Rings Andrés Molina | Snow 452 |
| 2:00pm | Computational & Applied Math Seminar Nonlinear Preconditioners for Nonlinear PDEs Liwei Cui | Snow 306 | |
| 3:00pm | Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar Mizohata-Takeuchi Type Inequalities for Moment Curves Zane Li, North Carolina State University Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/88945356640 Passcode: 0000 | Zoom | |
| 5:00 | KU Student Chapter of Association for Women in Mathematics Viewing & Problem Solving Party with Pizza! What's the average area of a cube's shadow? | 651 Snow | |
| Friday, 4/10 | 11:00am | Combinatorics Seminar Graph Varieties III Jeremy Martin | Snow 306 |
| 12:00pm | GSO Seminar A Brief Story About Chaos, Fractals and Self-similarity Nikos Gkrekas | Snow 256 |
| March 30-April 3, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Wednesday, 4/1 | 11:00am | Student Algebra Seminar An Introduction to Symbolic Powers and the Containment Problem David Carlip | Snow 452 |
| 2:00pm | Computational & Applied Math Seminar Shear Flow of Nematic Liquid Crystals: Bifurcations for Multiplicity and Stability of Steady States Weishi Liu | Snow 306 | |
| 3:00pm | Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar The Hamiltonian Formulation of the Continuum Calogero-Moser Model on the Torus and Applications to the Invariant Measure Problem Katie Marsden, University of California, Los Angeles Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/86451789662 Passcode: 0000 | Zoom | |
| Thursday, 4/2 | 4:00pm | Smith Colloquium Homogenization of First-Order Hamilton-Jacobi Equations: Recent Progress Hung Vinh Tran, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Snow 306 |
| Friday, 4/3 | 11:00am | Combinatorics Seminar Counting Maximal/Maximum Independent Sets David Carlip | Snow 306 |
| 12:00 pm | GSO Officer Meeting with Graduate Students | Snow 256 |
| March 23-March 27, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Wednesday, 3/25 | 11:00am | Student Algebra Seminar Componentwise Linear Ideals and the Herzog-Hibi-Ohsugi Conjecture Soumyadeep Misra | Snow 452 |
| 11:00 am | Comprehensive Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree Well-posedness of the KdV-KS Equation on a Finite Interval Chris Mayo | Snow 306 | |
| 3:00pm | Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar Structurally Stable Singularities for a Generalized Hunter-Saxton Type Equation Sam Armstrong | Snow 306 | |
| Thursday, 3/26 | 4:00pm | Smith Colloquium Matrix Factorization of Polynomials and Lefschetz Theorems Ravindra Girivaru, University of Missouri, St. Louis | Snow 306 |
| Friday, 3/27 | 12:00pm | GSO Seminar The Algebra Geometry Dictionary: Translating Shapes into Equations and Back Again Anusree Vellathum Padath | Snow 256 |
| March 9-March 13, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Wednesday, 3/11 | 11:00am | Student Algebra Seminar The Projective Dimension of Three-Generated Ideals Sreehari Suresh Babu | Snow 452 |
| 3:00pm | Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar Uniform Stability of Oscillatory Shocks for KdV-Burgers Equation Yannan Shen | Snow 306 | |
| Thursday, 3/12 | 4:00pm | Smith Colloquium The Stability of Shock Waves and the Physical Inviscid Limit Geng Chen | Snow 306 |
| Friday, 3/13 | 11:00am | Combinatorics Seminar Oriented Matroids Andrés Molina | Snow 306 |
| 12:00pm | GSO Seminar Parallel-in-Time Algorithms for Parabolic Problems Sheena Zeng | Snow 256 |
| March 2-March 6, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Wednesday, 3/4 | 2:00pm | Computational & Applied Math Seminar Transformer Neural Operators: Past and Present Shuhao Cao, University of Missouri-Kansas City | Snow 306 |
| 3:00pm | Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar The Korteweg-de Vries Equation on General Star Graphs Márcio Cavalcante de Melo,Universidade Federal de Alagoas (Instituto de Matemática) Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/86451789662 Passcode: 0000 | Zoom | |
| Thursday, 3/6 | 4:00 pm | Mathematics Distinguished Lecture Series Modeling Traffic Flow Alberto Bressan, The Pennsylvania State University | 120 Snow |
| Friday, 3/6 | 11:00am | Combinatorics Seminar Graph Varieties II Jeremy Martin | Snow 306 |
| 1:00pm | Study Group on Perfectoid Spaces Banach Rings and Huber Rings Lei Yu | Snow 456 |
| February 23-February 27, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Tuesday, 2/24 | 4:00 pm | Association for Women in Math Student Chapter Meeting Election of Officers | Snow 306 |
| Wednesday, 2/25 | 11:00 am | Student Algebra Seminar Gorenstein Rings in Context Ryan Hunter | Snow 452 |
| Friday, 2/27 | 11:00 am | Combinatorics Seminar Graph Varieties Jeremy Martin | Snow 306 |
| February 16-February 20, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Tuesday, 2/17 | 2:00pm | Study Group on Perfectoid Spaces Lei Yu | Snow 564 |
| Wednesday, 2/18 | 11:00am | Student Algebra Seminar Does AI Truly Understand Algebraic Varieties? Lei Yu | Snow 452 |
| Thursday, 2/19 | 3:30pm | Oral Presentation for Department Honors Clustering Algorithms Sam Grimsley | Snow 302 |
| Friday, 2/20 | 11:00am | Combinatorics Seminar The Record Statistic and Forward Stability of Schubert Products Han Yin | Snow 306 |
| 12:00 pm | GSO Seminar Introduction to Applying FEM to Poisson David Friedman | Snow 256 | |
| 2:00pm | Geometry Seminar Equivariant Transversality in Morse Homology via Stabilization Erkao Bao, University of Minnesota Twin Cities | Snow 302 |
| February 9-February 13, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Monday, 2/9 | 2:00pm | Comprehensive Oral Examination for the Ph.D. degree Frobenius Stability as Measure of Singularity Ryan Hunter | Snow 456 |
| Wednesday, 2/11 | 11:00am | Student Algebra Seminar Kunz Polyhedra Chris Wong | Snow 564 |
| 2:00pm | Computational & Applied Math Seminar BDDC Algorithms for Parabolic Problems Sheena Zeng | Snow 306 | |
| Friday, 2/13 | 11:00am | Combinatorics Seminar Flag Vectors of Polytopes Marge Bayer | Snow 306 |
| 12:00pm | GSO Seminar LaTeX for Math Students: Basic Skills for Graduate School Trent Gerew | Snow 256 |
| February 2-February 6, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Thursday, 2/5 | 4:15pm | Comprehensive Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree Cohomology Vanishing, Weight One Syzygies and Multigraded Regularity on Projective Varieties Raneeta Dutta Meeting ID: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/86889338973 Passcode: 2026 | Zoom |
| Friday, 2/6 | 12:00pm | GSO Seminar Generalized Urban Renewal of Dimer Quivers with Potential Chris Uchizono | Snow 256 |
| January 26-January 30, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Wednesday, 1/28 | 2:00pm | Computational and Applied Math Seminar Organizational Meeting | Snow 306 |
| Thursday, 1/29 | 4:00pm | Smith Colloquium Newton Polytopes and Schubert Calculus Linus Setiabrata, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Snow 306 |
| Friday, 1/30 | 11:00am | Combinatorics Seminar Double Orthodontia Formulas and Lascoux Positivity Linus Setiabrata | Snow 306 |
| January 19-January 23, 2026 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | |
| Tuesday, 1/20 | 2:00pm | Final Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree Vanishing Theorems and their Applications in Syzygies and Deformation Theory Debjit Basu Email michmor@ku.edu for Zoom info | Zoom |