Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, and Number Theory Schedule

Fall 2026 Schedule

DateSpeakerTopic
August 24WelcomeCoffee and baking
August 31Patrick GambillMinhashborn:  A Metric on Partitions
September 7Labor DayNo Class
September 14Yunjia KouOn Chern's Conjecture: Rigidity of Closed Minimal Hypersurfaces in the 5-Sphere
September 21Jiaji QuHow Long Can a Pairs Trade Spread Stay Reasonably Wrong?
September 28Aleksander ZujevCongruence-Restricted Ehrhart Quasi-Polynomials
October 5Allison RobersonGenerators of the Semipositive Cone
October 12Garrett KeplerWhen Graphs Share Eigenvectors
October 19Leon TsaiCounting Zeros of L-functions: Selberg’s Central Limit Theorem and an Analogue in Families
October 26Jared BrannanCombinatorics and Algebra and Combinatorics
November 2Saxton WilsonVizing's and Other Related Conjectures
November 9Maria Schmidt
November 16Jamie Stonas
November 23ThanksgivingNo Class
November 30Elena Boutsika
December 7Jon Widen