Declan Stacy will defend the DMP thesis on Monday, April 30. The title is
“Stochastic extinction, An average Lyapunov function approach”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
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.
Mason Barnes will be defending the Master thesis on Monday, April 22. The title is
“Kashaev Conjecture Solved for the Five Punctured Spheres”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone is invited to attend.
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.
Everyone is invited to attend.
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.
Everyone is invited to attend.
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.
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
Everyone is invited to attend.
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”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
David Winters will defend the Masters thesis on Thursday, May 4. The title is
“4-dimensional 2-handlebodies and topological invariants”.
Everyone is invited to attend!
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”.
Everyone is invited to attend. If you would like to join via Zoom, let Sara Maloni know.
Zachary Carlini will defend the DMP thesis on Monday, May 1. The title is
“Serre relations for i-quantum groups”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
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”.
Everyone is cordially invited to attend.
Olivia Goodrich will defend the Masters thesis on Wednesday, April 19. The title is
“Lubotzky-Meiri: Sieving with Expander Families”.
All are cordially invited for a presentation on this engaging topic.
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”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Weinan Zhang will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, March 24. The title is
“Relative braid group symmetries on i-quantum groups”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
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”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
William Craig will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Monday, November 7. The title is
“On the coefficients of q-series and modular forms”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Ted Williams will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, July 22. The title is
“Commutator formulas in groups of Kac-Moody type”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
David Winters will defend the DMP thesis on Thursday, May 5. The title is
“Diagrammatics of Monoidal Categories”
We hope to see you there!
Nathan Li will defend the DMP thesis on Tuesday, May 3. The title is
“The h-Cobordism Theorem”, an exposition of one of the fundamental results in topology that was part of the Fields medal work of Stephen Smale in the 1960s
We hope to see you there; if you prefer to join virtually we plan to use the zoom link
Sam Dulin will defend the DMP thesis on Wednesday, May 4. The title is
“Porous medium equation and applications”
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Hao Yu Li will defend the Masters thesis on Friday, April 29. The title is
“Inducing isomorphic permutation representations from non-equivalent G-sets”.
All are invited for a presentation on this fun topic.
Spencer Martin will defend the DMP thesis on Friday, April 29. The title is
“The arithmetic of Elliptic Curves and the Mordell-Weil theorem”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
William Winston will defend the DMP thesis on Thursday, April 28. The title is
“Regularity of group actions on $S^1$”.
Everyone is invited to attend at this zoom link
Matt Feller will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, April 22. The title is
“Quasi-2-Segal sets”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Charlie Conneen will defend the Master thesis on Friday, April 22. The title is
“On the Model Theory of Function Fields”.
Everyone is invited to attend. Link for remote access.
Ross Akhmechet will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, April 22. The title is
“Annular link homology theories and their homotopical refinements”.
Everyone is invited to attend. If you are unable to attend in person, this Zoom link should also work.
Peter Johnson will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Thursday, April 14. The title is
“Small Seifert Fibered Zero-Surgery”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
You are welcome to attend either in person or virtually at this zoom link.
Sarasij Maitra will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Monday, March 28. The title is
“Partial Trace Ideals, the Conductor, and Berger’s Conjecture”.
Everyone is invited to attend.
The first 45 minutes will be a public presentation that you are welcome to attend either in person or virtually at this zoom link.