Karcher Colloquium


The Karcher Colloquium normally meets in PHSC 1105 on Thursdays at 4:00pm. It is normally preceded by tea at 3:30pm in PHSC 424. For more information about the colloquium, contact Justin Malestein.

Spring 2026

February 19
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Wolfgang Ziller
University of Pennsylvania
Torus actions on 5-dimensional manifolds
April 2
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Víctor Sanmartín-López
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Homogeneous and isoparametric hypersurfaces in symmetric spaces
April 7
12:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Ara Basmajian
CUNY
Designer metrics tailored to curves
April 17
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Ramin Takloo-Bighash
University of Illinois, Chicago
Counting arithmetic objects using complex analysis
April 23
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Yash Lodha
Purdue University
A solution to the Wiegold problem on perfect groups

Fall 2025

October 2
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Luca Di Cerbo
University of Florida
Curvature, Macroscopic Dimensions, and Symmetric Products of Curves
October 30
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Angela Pasquale
Université de Lorraine, Metz, France
What is the metaplectic group?
November 7
3:30pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Ashay A. Burungale
University of Texas at Austin
An invitation to the BSD conjecture
December 4
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Peter McGrath
NCSU
Extremal Domains for the First Eigenvalue of the Laplacian
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