Recent defenses

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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Thesis defense: Ted Williams

Defense date: July 22, 2022

Ted Williams will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, July 22. The title is

Commutator formulas in groups of Kac-Moody type”.

  • Date: Friday, July 22.
  • Time: 10:00 am EST
  • Place: Wilson Hall 301

Everyone is invited to attend.

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DMP thesis defense: David Winters

Defense date: May 5, 2022

David Winters will defend the DMP thesis on Thursday, May 5. The title is

Diagrammatics of Monoidal Categories

  • Date: Thursday, May 5
  • Time: 1:00pm EST
  • Place: New Cabell 107

We hope to see you there!

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DMP thesis defense: Nathan Li

Defense date: May 3, 2022

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

  • Date: Tuesday, May 3
  • Time: 9:30 am EST
  • Place: New Cabell 068

We hope to see you there; if you prefer to join virtually we plan to use the zoom link

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DMP thesis defense: Sam Dulin

Defense date: May 4, 2022

Sam Dulin will defend the DMP thesis on Wednesday, May 4. The title is

Porous medium equation and applications

  • Date: Wednesday, May 4
  • Time: 12:00pm EST
  • Place: New Cabell 115

Everyone is welcome to attend.

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Masters thesis defense: Hao Yu Li

Defense date: April 29, 2022

Hao Yu Li will defend the Masters thesis on Friday, April 29. The title is

Inducing isomorphic permutation representations from non-equivalent G-sets”.

  • Date: Friday, April 29
  • Time: 2:00 pm EST
  • Place: Maury Hall 113

All are invited for a presentation on this fun topic.

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DMP thesis defense: Spencer Martin

Defense date: April 29, 2022

Spencer Martin will defend the DMP thesis on Friday, April 29. The title is

The arithmetic of Elliptic Curves and the Mordell-Weil theorem”.

  • Date: Friday, April 29
  • Time: 9:00 am EST
  • Place: New Cabell 411

Everyone is invited to attend.

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DMP thesis defense: William Winston

Defense date: April 28, 2022

William Winston will defend the DMP thesis on Thursday, April 28. The title is

Regularity of group actions on $S^1$”.

  • Date: Thursday, April 28
  • Time: 4:45 pm EST
  • Place: online on zoom

Everyone is invited to attend at this zoom link

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Thesis defense: Matt Feller

Defense date: April 22, 2022

Matt Feller will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, April 22. The title is

Quasi-2-Segal sets”.

  • Date: Friday, April 22.
  • Time: 3:30 pm EST
  • Place: Physics 210

Everyone is invited to attend.

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Master thesis defense: Charlie Conneen

Defense date: April 22, 2022

Charlie Conneen will defend the Master thesis on Friday, April 22. The title is

On the Model Theory of Function Fields”.

  • Date: Friday, April 22.
  • Time: 2:10 pm EST
  • Place: room 102 of Dell 2 (behind the Physics building)

Everyone is invited to attend. Link for remote access.

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Thesis defense: Ross Akhmechet

Defense date: April 22, 2022

Ross Akhmechet will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Friday, April 22. The title is

Annular link homology theories and their homotopical refinements”.

  • Date: Friday, April 22.
  • Time: 1:15 pm EST
  • Place: Maury 113 (note that the building has been renamed to John W. Warner Hall)

Everyone is invited to attend. If you are unable to attend in person, this Zoom link should also work.

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Thesis defense: Peter Johnson

Defense date: April 14, 2022

Peter Johnson will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Thursday, April 14. The title is

Small Seifert Fibered Zero-Surgery”.

  • Date: Thursday, April 14.
  • Time: 11:30 am EST
  • Place: Ridley Hall, room 123

Everyone is invited to attend.

You are welcome to attend either in person or virtually at this zoom link.

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Thesis defense: Sarasij Maitra

Defense date: March 28, 2022

Sarasij Maitra will defend the Ph.D. thesis on Monday, March 28. The title is

Partial Trace Ideals, the Conductor, and Berger’s Conjecture”.

  • Date: Monday, March 28.
  • Time: 12:30 pm EST
  • Place: Maury 104

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.

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