Michael Zhao Memorial Student Colloquium
The Michael Zhao Memorial Student Colloquium holds 45-minute talks by Columbia mathematics faculty about their own research. The talks are intended for current PhD students in mathematics at Columbia. If you are an undergraduate student or external graduate student and would like to come, please email Ethan Hall or Shijie Dai .

When: Thursday 6:00 - 7:00 PM ET
Where: Mathematics Building, Room 528
Organizers: Ethan Hall, Shijie Dai
Date Speaker Title and Abstract
February 12 Matthew Hase-Liu
Abstract: One fruitful approach to studying the geometry of a variety X is through understanding the space Mor(C,X) of curves C on X. When X is a smooth hypersurface of low degree, I'll explain how the circle method from analytic number theory can be used to shed light on the dimension, number of components, size and quality of singularities, class in the Grothendieck ring of varieties, and cohomology of Mor(C,X).
March 12 Ovidiu Savin
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April 9 Myungsin Cho
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April 16 Mu-Tao Wang
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April 30 Che Shen
Abstract: