Skip Section Navigation

Millican lectures are made possible through the generosity of Mr. Olin Moore Millican (1904-1999), who established the Roy McLeod Millican Memorial Fund in honor of his brother.

The talks typically take place on Mondays from 4:30 to 5:30 pm in GAB 461. The talks are intended for a general mathematical audience, and everyone is encouraged to attend (including undergraduates). Refreshments are served 30 minutes before the talk in the same room as the talk.

For more information, contact Lea Beneish.

Events for Fall 2026 - Spring 2027

Upcoming Events (AY 2026-2027)

September 14, 2026: Will Boney (Texas State University)

Title: Nonstandard ultraproducts in torsion modules, perfect groups, locally finite groups, and more!

Abstract: Taking ultraproducts is an essential tool in model theory, most notably giving a proof of the powerful Compactness Theorem for first-order logic: if a every finite subset of a collection of axioms has a model, then there is a model of the entire (infinite!) set of axioms. However, (working in ZFC) the standard ultraproduct construction is not very useful outside of first-order logic. On the other hand, many interesting algebraic properties are not first-order: torsion modules, locally finite groups, rank 1 valued fields, and more.

 

September 28, 2026: Jackson Morrow (UNT), Fields Medal Series 1/4

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

 

October 12, 2026: Nick Andersen (Brigham Young University)

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

 

October 19, 2026: Huijing Du (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

 

November 2, 2026: Daniel Prokaj (UNT), Fields Medal Series 2/4

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

 

November 9, 2026: Marcos Mazari Armida (Baylor University)

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

 

November 16, 2026: Sean Griffin (UNT), Fields Medal Series 3/4

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

 

January 25, 2027: Aaron Levin (Michigan State University)

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

 

TBD 2027: Giordano Tierra Chica (UNT), Fields Medal Series 4/4

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

 

TBD 2027: Jing Zhang (UNT), AI Safety

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

 

March 22, 2027: Yongtao Zhang (University of Notre Dame)

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

Other Past Events

Date Speaker Title
2026-4-6 Cris Poor, Fordham University The Satake Compactification of the stable Klingen
2026-3-23 Tom Benhamou, Rutgers University On the Structure of an Ultrafilter Basis
2026-3-16 David Zureick-Brown, Amherst College Beyond Fermat's Last Theorem
2026-2-2 Victor Moll, Tulane University The Evaluation of Integrals: Some Unexpected Connections
2025-11-17 Brendon Rhoades, University of California, San Diego Increasing Subsequences, Matrix Loci, and Shadow play
2025-11-10 Joseph Vandehey, University of Texas, Tyler Creating randomness in an orderly fashion
2025-10-27 Shawn Walker, Louisiana State University Modeling and Numerics for the Landau--de Gennes Model of Nematic Liquid Crystals
2025-9-29 Yingda Cheng, Virginia Tech Low-Rank Anderson Acceleration
2025-4-28 Parimala, Emory University Quadratic Forms from Arithmetic to Geometry
2025-4-14 Omer Ben-Neria, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, the Hebrew University In Search of Stronger Axioms
2025-4-7 Weihua Geng, Southern Methodist University Numerical methods and machine learning for the studies of biomolecular electrostatic interactions
2025-3-31 Yuan Liu, Wichita State University Sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin methods for time dependent PDEs
2025-3-17 Sheng Xu, Southern Methodist University The immersed interface method for flows around moving rigid objects
2025-3-3 Farbod Shokrieh, University of Washington Graphs in algebraic and arithmetic geometry
2025-2-17 Marianna Csörnyei, University of Chicago Embeddings into Euclidean spaces without shrinking
2025-1-13 Valentin Ovsienko, University of Champagne-Ardennes Quantum numbers? Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!
2024-11-18 Martin Raum, Chalmers University of Technology From Black Hole Mergers to Paramodular Forms
2024-11-11 Larry Rolen, Vanderbilt University L-functions for Harmonic Maass Forms
2024-11-4 Jiahui Chen, University of Arkansas Integrating differential operators and deep learning in biology application
2024-10-14 Ken Ribet, University of California Berkeley Why Fibonacci's Book of squares makes us dream of cubic curves
2024-10-7 Padi Fuster Aguilera, University of Colorado Boulder Modelling the world through an analyst lens
2024-9-23

Maurice Rojas, Texas A&M University

Prime Powers and Locating Roots of Equations
2024-9-16 Henri Darmon, McGill University Unique factorization domains, elliptic curves, and modular forms
2024-4-22 Sue Sierra, University of Edinburgh Enveloping algebras of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras
2024-4-15 Dinakar Ramakrishnan, Caltech An invitation to Diophantine equations, congruence numbers and beyond
2024-4-10 Hannah Larson, UC Berkeley Moduli spaces of curves
2024-3-18 Sohail Farhangi, Adam Mickiewicz University Uniform pointwise ergodic theorems via ultraproducts
2024-3-4 Xinfeng Liu, University of South Carolina Data-driven mathematical modeling, computation and experimental investigation of dynamical heterogeneity in breast cancer
2023-11-13 Shuang Liu, UNT Computational moving boundary problems
2023-10-23 Wesley Perkins, Lyon College Modulational and subharmonic dynamics of periodic waves
2023-10-9 Natasha Sharma, UT El Paso Unconditional energy stability and solvability for a co-interior penalty method for a sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard type equation modeling microemulsions
2023-9-18 Tamara Kucherenko, CUNY Ergodic theory on coded shifts
2023-9-6 Paco Villaroya, Santa Clara University A characterization of compactness for singular integral operators