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.

Fall 2026

October 8
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Yongquan Zhang
William & Mary
Dynamics and geometry of Kleinian reflection groups

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
June 26
2:30pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Varadharaj Ravi Srinivasan
IISER Mohali, India
Algebraic Dependence of Solutions of Algebraic Differential Equations
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