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Meet the Fellows Talks Fall 2026
Location
Calvin Lab Room 116
Date
Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026
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Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026
12 a.m.
–
12:15 p.m.
Random matrices and graphs as toy models for quantum chaos
Tatiana Brailovskaya (Duke University)
10
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10:15 a.m.
Talk by
Kai Zheng ()
10:15
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10:30 a.m.
Optimal List Decoding and More
Zihan Zhang (IAS)
10:30
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10:45 a.m.
Tensor Decomposition and Functional Stochastic Localization (unrelated)
Bobby Shi (Simons Institute)
10:45
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11 a.m.
Discrete and Continuous Coboundary Expansion
Siqi Liu (Duke University)
11
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11:15 a.m.
Discrete periodic operators
Matthew Faust (Michigan State University)
11:15
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11:30 a.m.
How Random Is a Random Linear Map?
Vinayak Kumar (Simons Institute)
11:30
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11:45 a.m.
My favorite open problems in extractor theory
Jesse Goodman (Simons Institute)
12:15
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1:45 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1:45
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2 p.m.
Constructing Lossless Expanders and Error-Correcting Codes
Rachel Zhang (UC Berkeley)
2
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2:15 p.m.
Open Problems in Computational Graph Theory
Sawyer Jack Robertson (UC San Diego)
2:15
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2:30 p.m.
Non-approximation and Cohomology
Bharatram Rangarajan (Université Catholique de Louvain)
2:30
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2:45 p.m.
Topology and operator algebras in spectral theory
Tom Stoiber (UC Berkeley)
2:45
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3 p.m.
Constructing High-Dimensional Expanders
Inga Valentiner-Branth (Simons Institute)
3
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4 p.m.
Orientation and Special Tea on 2nd Floor
5:30
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7 p.m.
Happy Hour for Fellows + Mentors (location TBD)
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026
10
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10:15 a.m.
Constructing High-Dimensional Expanders
Inga Valentiner-Branth (Simons Institute)
10:15
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10:30 a.m.
Markov-switching Ordinary Differential Processes
Katherine Tsai (UC Berkeley)
10:30
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10:45 a.m.
Quadratic Optimization
Chris Jones (UC Davis)
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