Meet the Fellows Talks Fall 2026

Location

Calvin Lab Room 116

Date

Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026

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10 – 10:15 a.m.

Talk by

Kai Zheng ()

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.

Optimal List Decoding and More

Zihan Zhang (IAS)

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.

Tensor Decomposition and Functional Stochastic Localization (unrelated)

Bobby Shi (Simons Institute)

10:45 – 11 a.m.

Discrete and Continuous Coboundary Expansion

Siqi Liu (Duke University)

11 – 11:15 a.m.

Discrete periodic operators

Matthew Faust (Michigan State University)

11:15 – 11:30 a.m.

How Random Is a Random Linear Map?

Vinayak Kumar (Simons Institute)

11:30 – 11:45 a.m.

My favorite open problems in extractor theory

Jesse Goodman (Simons Institute)

11:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Random matrices and graphs as toy models for quantum chaos

Tatiana Brailovskaya (Duke University)

12 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

1:30 – 1:45 p.m.

Constructing Lossless Expanders and Error-Correcting Codes

Rachel Zhang (UC Berkeley)

1:45 – 2 p.m.

Open Problems in Computational Graph Theory

Sawyer Jack Robertson (UC San Diego)

2 – 2:15 p.m.

Non-approximation and Cohomology

Bharatram Rangarajan (UniversitÃ© Catholique de Louvain)

2:15 – 2:30 p.m.

Topology and operator algebras in spectral theory

Tom Stoiber (UC Berkeley)

2:30 – 2:45 p.m.

Constructing High-Dimensional Expanders

Inga Valentiner-Branth (Simons Institute)

2:45 – 3 p.m.

Quadratic Optimization

Chris Jones (UC Davis)

3 – 4 p.m.

Orientation and Special Tea on 2nd Floor

5:30 – 7 p.m.

Happy Hour for Fellows + Mentors (location TBD)