Mathematical Sciences

Departmental Weekly Events

September 15 – September 19, & 20, 2025

 

AGENDA

Monday, September 15

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 No Events

 

Tuesday, September 16

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 Graduate Student Seminar, 5:00PM – 6:00PM. SH 235.

The Graduate Student Seminar is designed to give graduate students a low-pressure environment to gain experience presenting their work to their peers, and to practice public speaking skills more generally. Interested in speaking? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/w2WNNJ2XgaYApYgv8.


Questions? Contact Trevor Jess at tkjess@nmsu.edu or Susan Harding at susaneh@nmsu.edu.

 

Wednesday, September 17

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 No Events

 

Thursday, September 18

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  Algebra Seminar, "Algebraic Invariants of Blowup Algebras of Ladder Determinantal Modules, Part I". Louiza Fouli, NMSU. 2:00PM – 3:00PM. SH 235 and Zoom. Link: https://nmsu.zoom.us/j/86991740746.
Abstract:                        We will examine blowup algebras of modules that are direct sums of ideals of maximal minors of ladder matrices. We will discuss prior results on the structure of these algebras and provide a combinatorial framework that will allow us to compute certain algebraic invariants and determine conditions for these algebras to be Gorenstein.

 

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 Probability Seminar for Graduate Students, "Computations with Martingales". Adina Oprisan. 5:30PM – 6:30PM. SH 235.

 

Friday, September 19

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  Analysis Seminar, "Introduction to Non-local Games". Priyanga Ganesan, University of California San Diego. 10:30AM  – 11:30AM. SH 235 and Zoom. Link: https://nmsu.zoom.us/j/86991740746.
Abstract:                        A nonlocal game involves two non-communicating players who cooperatively play to give winning pairs of answers to questions posed by an external referee. Non-local games provide a convenient framework for exhibiting quantum supremacy in accomplishing certain tasks and have become increasingly useful in quantum information theory, mathematics, computer science and physics in recent years. Within mathematics, nonlocal games have deep connections with the field of operator algebras, group theory, graph theory and combinatorics. In this talk, I will provide an introduction to the theory of non-local games and quantum correlation classes and show their connections to different branches of mathematics. We will discuss how entanglement-assisted strategies for nonlocal games may be interpreted and studied using tools from operator algebras, group theory and combinatorics. I will then present a general framework of non-local games involving quantum questions and classical answers.

 

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  Colloquium, "From Matroids to Codes: Structure and Surprises in Symbolic Powers". Arvind Kumar, NMSU. 12:00PM refreshments | 12:30PM –  1:20PM. SH 107 and Zoom. Link: https://nmsu.zoom.us/j/82329432705.
Abstract:                        What does it mean for a polynomial to “vanish with thickness” at a point? This question leads to symbolic powers of ideals, algebraic objects that capture higher-order vanishing. While simple to define, symbolic powers are notoriously hard to control. In joint work with Louiza Fouli, Michael DiPasquale, and Ştefan Tohăneanu, we discovered that matroids provide a rare setting where symbolic powers admit explicit structure, leading to new factorization results and a surprising algebra–coding dictionary: symbolic invariants align with generalized Hamming weights, linking algebraic growth to error-correcting strength. I will also describe ongoing work with Louiza and Michael on matroid configurations, where we found the first counterexample to a long-standing specialization question, showing that geometry—not just combinatorics—governs containment.

 

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 No Geometry and Topology Seminar
Abstract:                        None

 

Saturday, September 20

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 Applied Math Seminar, Duc Thang Nguyen, NMSU. 9:00AM – 11:00AM. Zoom ONLY. Link: https://nmsu.zoom.us/j/88174028894.

 


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