This colloquium will feature short presentations by Pitt math faculty, highlighting the research done in the department for the benefit of our graduate students and other audience members.
The program
Riding the wave: how I learned to stop worrying and love dispersion (Anna Vainchtein)
What does the quasi-Riemann hypothesis mean for the distribution of the prime numbers? (Carl Wang-Erickson)
Boundaries of boundary value problems (Bruno Poggi)
Time-robust modeling and analyzing (Sabrina Streipert)
5-minute break
The ball fixed point property in Banach spaces (Chris Lennard)
How machines learn, what they learn, and how we can use them (Edward Chou)
Twistor theory is categorical (George Sparling)
Friday, October 30, 2026 - 15:30 to 17:00
Thackeray 704