Past Events

As in previous years, we will be running three preparation sessions to help you keep your math skills sharp and get you ready for the competition. The first preparation session will take place on Saturday, December 14th from 10am-12pm in Earth...

The tensor category of vertex operator algebras arises from two dimensional conformal field theories and has many applications such as representation theory, topological quantum field theory and quantum computations. A major problem of tensor...

In this talk, we will address areas of recent work centered around the themes of fairness and foundations in machine learning as well as highlight the challenges in this area. We will discuss recent results involving linear algebraic tools for...

The challenge of solving energy distribution grid planning problems, including operation and expansion planning, stems from their combinatorial nature and the vast solution space. Several models and techniques have been proposed in the literature to...

The classical McKay correspondence shows that there is a bijection between irreducible representations of finite subgroups $G$ of $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ and the exceptional divisors of the minimal resolution of the singularity $\mathbb{C}^2/G$...

In 1966, Tate proposed the Artin–Tate conjectures, which expresses special values of zeta function associated to surfaces over finite fields. Conditional on the Tate conjecture, Milne–Ramachandran formulated and proved similar conjectures for smooth...

A classical problem in combinatorial geometry, posed by Erdős in 1946, asks to determine the maximum number of unit segments in a set of n points in the plane. Since then a great variety of extremal problems in finite planar point sets have been...

We generalize a result about the face numbers of polytopes to the realm of CW spheres. Let X be a CW sphere such that: X is strongly regular. (The intersection of any two faces is a face.) X is shellable. (We can build X, facet by facet, so that each...

This alternative math education event will present fun activities to explore math and computer science concepts to children (and adults!) using games and art! Lots of hands-on activities including: Sorting network An impossible balancing act...

An highly active research area is concerned with finding conditions on sparse sets that ensure the existence of many geometric patterns. I will present some results in this direction connecting Newhouse thickness and its generalizations to higher...