University of Washington

The University of Washington PIMS site office is located in the Department of Mathematics at (Padleford building) the University of Washington (Map(link is external)).

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Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-UW Mathematics Colloquium: Alex Wright
November 18, 2016
University of Washington
We will begin by giving an elementary introduction to the GL(2,R) action on the Hodge bundle (sometimes called Teichmuller dynamics), after which we will give a survey of some of new developments in this field. This will include restrictions on the...
Scientific, Conference
57th Cascade Topology Seminar
November 19–20, 2016
University of Washington
The 57th Cascade Topology Seminar will take place at Seattle University. The titles and abstracts for this event are: Ryan Derby-Talbot: Computing Heegaard genus is NP-Hard One of the most basic measures of the complexity of a 3-manifold is its...
Scientific, Seminar
CORE Seminar: Sébastien Bubeck
April 19, 2016
University of Washington
I will present three new results: (i) the Cramer transform of the uniform measure on a convex body is a universal self-concordant barrier; (ii) projected gradient descent with Gaussian noise allows to sample from a log-concave measure in polynomial...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Dusa McDuff
March 4, 2016
University of Washington
A symplectic structure is a kind of geometric structure that can be put on an even dimensional space. It generalizes the notion of an area form in two dimensions in such a way that many of the special dynamical features of area preserving geometry...
Scientific, Seminar
Abelian Varieties Multi-Site Seminar Series: Bianca Viray
November 12, 2015
University of Washington
Igusa class polynomials are the genus 2 analogue of Hilbert class polynomials; their roots are invariants of genus 2 curves that have complex multiplication by a fixed order. The coefficients of Igusa class polynomials are rational, but, unlike in...
Scientific, Seminar
Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar
October 17–18, 2015
University of Washington
The Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar (PNGS) is a regional meeting for geometers of all kinds. It is held every fall and spring, and every other winter, rotating among the following participating institutions: Oregon State University Portland State...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Brian Conrad
February 12, 2016
University of Washington
The ABC Conjecture, formulated in the mid-1980's by Oesterlé and Masser, is one of the most important conjectures in number theory. It has many deep consequences, but its basic formulation can be given in entirely elementary terms. In September 2012...
Scientific, Seminar
Abelian Varieties Multi-Site Seminar Series: Drew Sutherland
January 12, 2016
University of Washington
Let A be an abelian variety of dimension g over a number field K. The Sato-Tate group ST(A) is a compact subgroup of the unitary symplectic group USp(2g) that can be defined in terms of the l-adic Galois representation associated to A. Under the...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Katherine E. Stange
April 1, 2016
University of Washington
I will begin with the familiar Farey sequences: the subdivisions of the real line obtained by recursively taking the mediant (a+c)/(b+d) of fractions a/b and c/d. I will take this starting point as an excuse for an ecclectic tour which may include...

Staff

Position Name Email Phone # Office
PIMS Site Director, University of Washington Jayadev Athreya jathreya@uw.edu +1 (206) 616-2481 C-419, Padelford Hall
Site Administrator - University of Washington Michael Munz munz@math.washington.edu +1 (206) 543-0397
Name Position Research Interests Supervisor Year
Pawel Morzywolek PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington Statistics Alex Luedtke 2024
Anastassiya Semenova PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington Applied mathematics and nonlinear science Bernard Deconinck 2023
Daniel Kessler PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington Statistics Daniela Witten 2023
Samuel Van Fleet PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington Numerical Analysis and PDE Jingwei Hu 2023
Amrei Oswald Postdoctoral Researcher Non-commutative Algebra James Zhang 2022
Shiping Cao Postdoctoral Researcher Fractals Zhen-Qing Chen 2022
Xiaowen Zhu PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington Mathematical Physics Alexis Drout 2022
Jesse Daniel Raffa University of Washington Statistics Elizabeth A. Thompson 2014
Nicholas W. Reichert University of Washington Partial Differential Equations Robin Graham 2014