Recent defenses

DMP thesis defense: James Harbour

Defense date: April 29, 2025

James Harbour will defend the DMP thesis on Tuesday, April 29th. The title is

Discrete measured groupoid von Neumann algebras via the Gaussian deformation

  • Date: April 29th, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 am
  • Location: Ker 111

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Masters thesis defense: Samir Fridhi

Defense date: April 25, 2025

Samir Fridhi will defend the Master’s thesis on Friday, April 25th. The title is

Tate’s Thesis

  • Date: April 25th, 2025
  • Time: 5:00 pm
  • Location: Kerchof 111

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Aoran Wu

Defense date: April 25, 2025

Aoran Wu will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, April 25. The title is

Von Neumann orbit equivalence”.

  • Date: Friday, April 25
  • Time: 2:00 pm
  • Place: Kerchof 326

Everyone is cordially invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Mojdeh Tarighat Feller

Defense date: April 25, 2025

Mojdeh Tarighat Feller will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, April 25th. The title is

Products of Closed k-Schur Katalan Functions

  • Date: April 25th, 2025
  • Time: 1:30 pm
  • Location: Zoom

For Zoom link, please reach out to Jennifer Morse .

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Catherine Cossaboom: DMP Thesis Defense

Defense date: April 22, 2025

Catherine Cossaboom will defend the Distinguished Major Thesis on Tuesday, April 22 under the direction of advisor Ken Ono. The title is

Distribution of Primes in Short Intervals”.

  • Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
  • Time: 9:00 am
  • Place: Kerchof 111

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Thesis defense: Louisa Liles

Defense date: April 11, 2025

Louisa Liles will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, April 11th, at 9:30 am in New Cabell Hall, Room 323.

Quantum invariants and their connections with Thompson’s groups F and T

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Miika Tuominen

Defense date: March 24, 2025

Miika Tuominen will defend the thesis on Monday, March 24. The title is

Completions and DK-equivalences of Θn-spaces”.

  • Date: Monday, March 24, 2025
  • Time: 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
  • Place: Ridley Hall 179

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Thesis defense: Wojciech Tralle

Defense date: March 19, 2025

Wojciech Tralle will defend the thesis on Wednesday, March 19. The title is

Almost strong approximation in reductive groups”.

  • Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
  • Time: 3:30 pm
  • Place: Kerchof 111
  • Committee: M. Ershov, V. Gazaki, I. Klich, A. Rapinchuk

Everyone is invited to attend.

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DMP thesis defense: Declan Stacy

Defense date: April 30, 2024

Declan Stacy will defend the DMP thesis on Monday, April 30. The title is

Stochastic extinction, An average Lyapunov function approach”.

  • Date: Monday, April 30
  • Time: 1:00 pm EST
  • Place: Kerchof 111

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Yuan Zhang

Defense date: April 24, 2023

Yuan Zhang will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Wednesday, April 24. The title is

Root group data (RGD) systems of affine type for significant subgroups of isotropic reductive groups over \(k[t,1/t]\)”.

The defense will be held at Kerchof 111 at 3:00 pm.

Yuan and I hope that many of you will be able to attend.

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Master thesis defense: Mason Barnes

Defense date: April 22, 2024

Mason Barnes will be defending the Master thesis on Monday, April 22. The title is

Kashaev Conjecture Solved for the Five Punctured Spheres”.

  • Date: Monday, April 22
  • Time: 10:00 am
  • Location: Kerchof 111

Mason will demonstrate his solution to the Kashaev conjecture for type-preserving representations of the five punctured sphere in PSL(2,R).

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Tanner Carawan

Defense date: April 19, 2023

Tanner Carawan will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, April 19. The title is

2-Segal maps associated to a category with cofibrations”.

The defense will be held at Kerchof 317 at 3:00 pm.

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Donnelly Phillips

Defense date: April 15, 2023

Donnelly Phillips will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Monday, April 15. The title is

The Hypoelliptic Heat Kernel on Infinite-Dimensional Lie Groups: Heisenberg-Like Quasi-Invariance and the Taylor Isomorphism”.

The defense will be held at Kerchof 128 at 12:00 pm.

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Shunyu Wan

Defense date: April 9, 2023

Shunyu Wan will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Tuesday, April 9. The title is

Naturality of the Legendrian LOSS invariant under positive contact surgery”.

The defense will be held at Kerchof Hall 111 at 3:15 pm.

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Alec Traaseth

Defense date: April 8, 2023

Alec Traaseth will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Monday, April 8. The title is

Combination Theorems for Convergence Groups”.

The defense will be held at Kerchof 111 at 10:00 am.

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Thesis defense: Hasan Saad

Defense date: March 25, 2024

Hasan Saad will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Monday, March 25. The title is

On the Distributions of Point Counts on Hypergeometric Varieties”.

The defense will be held at Kerchof Hall 111 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm.

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Thesis defense: Yaolong Shen

Defense date: April 1, 2024

Yaolong Shen will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Monday, April 1. The title is

Schur dualities arising from quantum symmetric pairs”.

The defense will be held at Kerchof Hall 111 from 1:30 - 3:00 pm.

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Thesis defense: Eleanor Mcspirit

Defense date: April 2, 2024

Eleanor Mcspirit will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Tuesday, April 2. The title is

Insights from Number Theory: From Arithmetic Geometry to Quantum Topology”.

The defense will be held at Kerchof Hall 111 from 9:00 - 11:00 am.

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Jiajun Yan

Defense date: July 14, 2023

Jiajun Yan will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, July 14. The title is

A new gauge-theoretic construction of 4-dimensional hyper-Kähler ALE spaces”.

The defense will be held virtually at the following link:

https://virginia.zoom.us/j/97021946286?pwd=UWZoTXBmalFmYklWdzM5N0dIZGZwUT09

  • Meeting ID: 970 2194 6286
  • Passcode: 908710
  • Date: Friday, July 14
  • Time: 10:00 am EST

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Nhan Nguyen

Defense date: May 17, 2023

Nhan Nguyen will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Wednesday, May 17. The title is

Estimates for correlation functions of real roots for random polynomials and applications”.

  • Date: Wednesday, May 17.
  • Time: 1:30 pm EST
  • Place: Clark Hall 101

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Masters thesis defense: David Winters

Defense date: May 4, 2023

David Winters will defend the Masters thesis on Thursday, May 4. The title is

4-dimensional 2-handlebodies and topological invariants”.

  • Date: Thursday, May 4
  • Time: 1:00 pm EST
  • Place: New Cabell Hall 044

Everyone is invited to attend!


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DMP thesis defense: Mason Barnes

Defense date: May 1, 2023

Mason Barnes will defend the DMP thesis on Monday, May 1. The title is

PSL(2,R)-character variety of the four-punctured sphere and its connected components”.

  • Date: Monday, May 1
  • Time: 12:00 pm EST
  • Place: New Cabell Hall 032

Everyone is invited to attend. If you would like to join via Zoom, let Sara Maloni know.

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DMP thesis defense: Zachary Carlini

Defense date: May 1, 2023

Zachary Carlini will defend the DMP thesis on Monday, May 1. The title is

Serre relations for i-quantum groups”.

  • Date: Monday, May 1
  • Time: 1:00 pm EST
  • Place: New Cabell Hall 064

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Andrew Will

Defense date: April 24, 2023

Andrew Will will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Monday, April 24. The title is

Quantum invariants and volume of links on surfaces and knotted graphs”.

  • Date: Monday, April 24
  • Time: 1:00 pm EST
  • Place: Gibson Hall 241

Everyone is cordially invited to attend.

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Masters thesis defense: Olivia Goodrich

Defense date: April 19, 2023

Olivia Goodrich will defend the Masters thesis on Wednesday, April 19. The title is

Lubotzky-Meiri: Sieving with Expander Families”.

  • Date: Wednesday, April 19
  • Time: 3:20 pm EST
  • Place: Kerchof 317

All are cordially invited for a presentation on this engaging topic.

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Thesis defense: Mat Turnansky

Defense date: April 11, 2023

Mat Turnansky will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Tuesday, April 11. The title is

Quantum Mechanical Operator Algebras and The Logic of Quantum Measurement”.

  • Date: Tuesday, April 11.
  • Time: 11:00 am EST
  • Place: Kerchof 201

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Weinan Zhang

Defense date: March 24, 2023

Weinan Zhang will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, March 24. The title is

Relative braid group symmetries on i-quantum groups”.

  • Date: Friday, March 24.
  • Time: 3:30 pm EST
  • Place: Monroe 122

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: Badri Pandey

Defense date: November 15, 2022

Badri Pandey will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Tuesday, November 15. The title is

On higher Turan inequalities for the plane partitions, ellipsoidal T-designs, and j-inversion”.

  • Date: Tuesday, November 15.
  • Time: 12:30 pm EST
  • Place: Dell Building #1, room 104

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Thesis defense: William Craig

Defense date: November 7, 2022

William Craig will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Monday, November 7. The title is

On the coefficients of q-series and modular forms”.

  • Date: Monday, November 7.
  • Time: 12:00 pm EST
  • Place: Kerchof Hall room 317

Everyone is invited to attend.

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