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Nov. 11, 2025 12:10pm (MATH …	Kempner Gregory Berkolaiko (Texas A&M) X Quantum chaos is the study of signatures of chaotic dynamics at the quantum level.� The objects of study include the energy (eigenvalue) or wavefunction (eigenfunction) statistics.� Nodal fluctuations belong to the second class; they express deviations of the number of zeros (or nodal domains) of the eigenfunction from its expected value.� We will discuss the nodal fluctuations in a particular model, discrete Schroedinger operators on graphs.� The conjecture is that the nodal fluctuations are always Gaussian, in the appropriate limit and after appropriate normalization.� While the conjecture has been established in some classes of graphs, it is mostly wide open.� We will review recent progress in this area which combines many different approaches: Morse Theory, Random Matrices, Spectral Graph Theory and Algebraic Geometry. Universality of nodal fluctuations: from quantum chaos to algebraic geometry
Nov. 11, 2025 1:25pm (online)	Algebra/Logic George Metcalfe (University Bern) View Online:https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96896272260 X This talk will be about idempotent semifields, which, from a purely algebraic perspective are just lattice-ordered groups formulated in a restricted language with the group multiplication, neutral element, and lattice-join operation. We will see that although countably infinitely many equational theories of lattice-ordered groups have a finite equational basis, no non-trivial equational theory of idempotent semifields has this property. On the other hand, as in the case of lattice-ordered groups, there are continuum-many equational theories of classes of idempotent semifields. Finally, we will relate the problem of deciding equations in the class of idempotent semifields to the problem of deciding if there exists a right order on a free group satisfying a given finite set of inequalities, and show that these problems are, respectively, co-NP-complete and NP-complete. This is joint work with Simon Santschi. Equational Theories of Idempotent Semifields
Nov. 11, 2025 1:30pm (MATH 3…	Homotopy Itamar Mor (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) X The lower central series is a classical device to deform a group into an abelian group, or in fact into a Lie algebra. In the 60s, Curtis and Rector used this to define a version of the unstable Adams spectral sequence. I'll describe a categorification of this construction in the spirit of synthetic spectra, which gives a way to deform a space into an animated Lie algebra. Many classical constructions in unstable homotopy theory may be deformed in this way: for example, I will discuss how this may be used to relate the EHP spectral sequence to Curtis' algebraic EHP spectral sequence, which can essentially be computed by machine. The synthetic EHP sequence
Nov. 11, 2025 1:30pm (MATH 3…	Topology Itamar Mor (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) X The lower central series is a classical device to deform a group into an abelian group, or in fact into a Lie algebra. In the 60s, Curtis and Rector used this to define a version of the unstable Adams spectral sequence. I'll describe a categorification of this construction in the spirit of synthetic spectra, which gives a way to deform a space into an animated Lie algebra. Many classical constructions in unstable homotopy theory may be deformed in this way: for example, I will discuss how this may be used to relate the EHP spectral sequence to Curtis' algebraic EHP spectral sequence, which can essentially be computed by machine. The synthetic EHP sequence
Nov. 11, 2025 2:30pm (MATH 2…	Grad Algebra/Logic Khizar Pasha (CU Boulder) X We will describe the bounded width portion of the CSP dichotomy theorem. In particular, we will explain what bounded width CSPs are, and present the proof by Barto and Kozik that CSPs whose polymorphism algebras have WNUs for all but finitely many arities, have bounded width.� Bounded width CSPs
Nov. 11, 2025 2:30pm (MATH 3…	Lie Theory Peter Brooksbank (Bucknell University) X Tensors have roughly as many definitions and notations as there are fields that use them. Nevertheless there is some broad agreement on the sort of information one might wish to extract from a tensor given by an array of numbers. One common goal is to change the ambient reference frame in order to reveal some internal structure. For instance, one might wish to know if, by a suitable change of basis, the nonzero entries of the array can be made to cluster in some prescribed manner. In this talk I will discuss clustering techniques whose origins lie in computational algebra and show they can be adapted to tensors that occur in the real world. The algorithms that result from this algebraic perspective have certain advantages�such as provable efficiency and reproducibility�and they can detect cluster patterns that elude existing methods. This is a report on joint work with Martin Kassabov and James Wilson. Clustering algorithms for tensors: an algebraic approach Sponsored by the Meyer Fund

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