2026

Date15 May 2026 (Fri) 4:00 – 5:00 pm
VenueP3, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, HKU
TitleFrontiers of Mathematics Lecture - Structures in deep neural networks
SpeakerProfessor Ding-Xuan Zhou (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia)

Date15 May 2026 (Fri) 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
VenueRoom 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleQualifying Research Seminar - Operator Learning for Parametric Eigenvalue Problems
SpeakerMr. Haoqian Li (Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date07 May 2026 (Thu) 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleMathematics for Machine Learning Seminar - Manifold constrained steepest descent
SpeakerMr. Kaiwei Yang (Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date06 May 2026 (Wed) 4:00 – 5:00 pm
VenueLecture Theatre A, 1/F, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU
TitleFrontiers of Mathematics Lecture - 30 years of virtual fundamental chain
SpeakerProfessor Kenji Fukaya (Tsinghua University)

Date04 May 2026 (Mon) - 06 May 2026 (Wed)
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleMini Course - Projective homogeneous varieties
SpeakerProf. Michel Brion (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Date30 Apr 2026 (Thu) 5:00 – 6:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleQualifying Research Seminar - First-Order Dynamics in O-Minimal Structures: Convergence, Geometry, and Criticality
SpeakerMr. Song Mingzhi (HKU)

Date30 Apr 2026 (Thu) 10:30 am – 12:00 noon
VenueRoom 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleGeometry Seminar - Linked Grassmannians
SpeakerProf. Xiang He (Tsinghua University)

Date27 Apr 2026 (Mon) 3:00 – 4:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleQualifying Research Seminar - Poisson–Lie Groups and the QR Algorithm
SpeakerMr. Wu Hoi Leong (HKU)

Date24 Apr 2026 (Fri) - 25 Apr 2026 (Sat)
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleJoint Meeting in Mathematics: The University of Hong Kong–Shenzhen International Center for Mathematics Spring 2026

Date23 Apr 2026 (Thu) 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleMathematics for Machine Learning Seminar - Presheaf Models and Dynamic Logic Contextuality in Labelled Transition Systems (research presentation)
SpeakerMiss Zilin Su (Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date22 Apr 2026 (Wed) 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleNumerical Analysis Seminar - Multiscale Modelling for Time-harmonic Maxwell equations with impedance boundary conditions in heterogeneous media
SpeakerMr Xingguang Jin (CUHK)

Date16 Apr 2026 (Thu) 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleMathematics for Machine Learning Seminar - Certifying optimality in nonconvex robust PCA
SpeakerProf. Lexiao Lai (Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date10 Apr 2026 (Fri) 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - Hamilton Oriented Path and Cycle Discrepancy of Digraphs
SpeakerProfessor Gregory Gutin (Department of Computer Science, University of London)

Date02 Apr 2026 (Thu) 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - Transonic flows and mixed-type problems in gas dynamics and geometry
SpeakerProfessor Dehua Wang (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Date26 Mar 2026 (Thu) 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
VenueZOOM: https://hku.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 970 8754 5398
Password: 086428
TitleProbability Seminar - Aspects of large N expansions in random matrix theory
SpeakerProf. Peter Forrester (University of Melbourne)

Date23 Mar 2026 (Mon) 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - A Unified Framework of Splitting and Contraction Algorithms for Convex Optimization in the Sense of Variational Inequalities
SpeakerProfessor Bingsheng He (Nanjing University, China)

Date19 Mar 2026 (Thu) 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleSeminar - Towards a global canonical basis
SpeakerDr. Weinan Zhang (Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date17 Mar 2026 (Tue) 5:00 – 6:00 pm
VenueLecture Theatre A, 1/F, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU
TitleFrontiers of Mathematics Lecture - Conceptualizing dynamical complexity
SpeakerProfessor Lai-Sang Young (New York University, USA)

Date17 Mar 2026 (Tue) 10:30 – 11:15 am
VenueRm 309, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleQualifying Research Seminar - On the Efficiency and Robustness of Model reduction method for Dynamical Systems
SpeakerMr. Ma Shengbo (HKU)

Date10 Mar 2026 (Tue) 4:00 – 5:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleQualifying Research Seminar - Optimization Methods for the Full LLM Lifecycle: Enhancing Efficiency from Pre-training to Deployment
SpeakerMr. Xu Zhicheng (HKU)

Date09 Mar 2026 (Mon) 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleOptimization and Machine Learning Seminar - Optimal Rates for Generalization of Gradient Descent Methods with Deep Neural Networks
SpeakerDr. Junyu Zhou (Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Germany)

Date06 Mar 2026 (Fri) 2:00 – 3:00 pm
VenueP4, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, HKU
TitleFrontiers of Mathematics Lecture - Simple character formula arising from based Schur duality, and beyond
SpeakerProfessor Weiqiang Wang (University of Virginia, USA)

Date06 Mar 2026 (Fri) 4:30 – 5:30 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleQualifying Research Seminar - Efficient Numerical Algorithms for Optimal Control of Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems
SpeakerMr. Yang Chen (HKU)

Date06 Mar 2026 (Fri) 3:30 – 4:30 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleQualifying Research Seminar -Manifold Optimization with Linear Constraints on Hilbert Spaces: Theoretical Foundation, Algorithmic Design, and Industrial Applications
SpeakerMr. Xue Luhao (HKU)

Date04 Mar 2026 (Wed) - 06 Mar 2026 (Fri)
VenueRM210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleRecent Developments on Quantum Groups and Related Topics 2026

Date04 Mar 2026 (Wed) 10:00 – 11:00 am
VenueRm 309, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleQualifying Research Seminar - A refreshing view on drift-diffusion equations
SpeakerMr. Shao Ruijie (HKU)

Date03 Mar 2026 (Tue) 4:00 – 5:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleQualifying Research Seminar - A Novel Neural Framework for Solving Mixed-Integer Programming
SpeakerMr. Tang Longtian (HKU)

Date26 Feb 2026 (Thu) - 28 Feb 2026 (Sat)
VenueRM210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleJoint IMR-IoM Number Theory Conference 2026

Date26 Feb 2026 (Thu) 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitlePDE Seminar - Long time evolution of a pair of 2D viscous point vortices
SpeakerProf. Ping Zhang (President, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Date24 Feb 2026 (Tue) 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
VenueRayson Huang Lecture Theatre, HKU
TitlePublic Lecture on PDE - Fourier Analysis and its Application to Partial Differential Equations
SpeakerProf. Ping Zhang (The Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Date24 Feb 2026 (Tue) 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleSeminar - Primitive elements of free algebras of Schreier varieties of linear algebras
SpeakerProfessor Alexander A. Mikhalev (Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)

Date23 Feb 2026 (Mon) 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleNumber Theory Seminar - On the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer formula modulo squares for certain quadratic twists of elliptic curves
SpeakerProf. Mok Chung Pang (Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences)

Date11 Feb 2026 (Wed) 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - Total Q-prime curvature
SpeakerProfessor Paul Yang (Princeton University, USA)

Date10 Feb 2026 (Tue) 5:00 – 6:00 pm
VenueLecture Theatre A, 1/F, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU
TitleFrontiers of Mathematics Lecture - Recent development in Conformal Geometry
SpeakerProfessor Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University, USA)

Date10 Feb 2026 (Tue) 10:00 – 11:00 am
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleQualifying Research Seminar - Stability and Generalization of Stochastic Gradient Methods with Bias
SpeakerMs. Zeng Shuang (HKU)

Date10 Feb 2026 (Tue) 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - Simple Questions, Rich Structures
SpeakerProfessor Antonio Malheiro (NOVA University of Lisbon)

Date06 Feb 2026 (Fri) 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleRepresentation Theory Seminar - Pro-p metaplectic Hecke algebras and quantum wreath products
SpeakerProf. Chun-Ju Lai (Academia Sinica)

Date03 Feb 2026 (Tue) 5:00 – 6:00 pm
VenueLecture Theatre A, 1/F, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU
TitleFrontiers of Mathematics Lecture - Symmetries in Algebraic Geometry: Distribution of the Hodge Locus
SpeakerProfessor Emmanuel Ullmo (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES), France)

Date03 Feb 2026 (Tue) 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleSeminar - Symmetries in Algebraic Geometry: Intermediate Jacobians and Burnside Invariants
SpeakerProf. Yuri Tschinkel (Courant Institute, New York University)

Date02 Feb 2026 (Mon) 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleSeminar - Periods and Shimura Correspondences, an Introduction
SpeakerProf. Solomon Friedberg (Boston College)

Date28 Jan 2026 (Wed) 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - How boundaries shape geometry in Einstein spaces
SpeakerDr. Hongyi Liu (Department of Mathematics, Princeton University)

Date28 Jan 2026 (Wed) 9:30 am – 11:00 am
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - Moments, shifted sums, and lacunary sums beyond GL(2)
SpeakerDr. Wing Hong Leung (Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University)

Date27 Jan 2026 (Tue) 5:00 – 6:00 pm
VenueLecture Theatre A, 1/F, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU
TitleFrontiers of Mathematics Lecture - Conformally Invariant Elliptic Equations of Second Order
SpeakerProfessor Yanyan Li (Rutgers University, USA)

Date27 Jan 2026 (Tue) 10:30 am – 12:00 noon
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - Nonlocal Conservation Laws: Analysis, Computation, and Application in Traffic Flow Modeling
SpeakerDr. Kuang Huang (Department of Mathematics, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Date26 Jan 2026 (Mon) 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - Asymptotics for 2D Allen-Cahn minimizers
SpeakerDr. Zhiyuan Geng (Department of Mathematics, Purdue University)

Date26 Jan 2026 (Mon) 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - Classification of Model-Theoretic Structures: A (Tame) Topological Approach
SpeakerDr. Jinhe Ye (School of Mathematics, Nanjing University)

Date26 Jan 2026 (Mon) 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleNumerical Analysis Seminar - Spectral Barron space and deep neural network approximation
SpeakerDr. Yulei Liao (NUS)

Date22 Jan 2026 (Thu) 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleNumber Theory Seminar - Different aspects of Piltz Divisor Functions with Congruence Conditions
SpeakerProf. Debika Banerjee (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi))

Date22 Jan 2026 (Thu) 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - Quantum Scientific Computing
SpeakerProfessor Shi Jin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Date21 Jan 2026 (Wed) 3:00 – 4:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleQualifying Research Seminar - Archimedean Bernstein-Zelevinsky theory and Casselman’s comparison conjecture
SpeakerMr. Wu Kaidi (HKU)

Date21 Jan 2026 (Wed) 4:30 – 5:30 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - The Pardon algebra of points
SpeakerProf. Kai Behrend (University of British Columbia)

Date20 Jan 2026 (Tue) 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleNumber Theory Seminar - Stationary Phase Analysis for Analytic Newvectors and Applications to Subconvexity Problems
SpeakerMr. Liyuan Ye (Tsinghua University)

Date15 Jan 2026 (Thu) 4:30 – 6:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleColloquium - Recent advances in the arithmetic Siegel-Weil formula
SpeakerDr. Qiao HE (Department of Mathematics, Columbia University)

Date14 Jan 2026 (Wed) 3:00 – 4:00 pm
VenueRm 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
TitleNumerical Analysis Seminar - A strongly mass-conservative method for the coupled Navier-Stokes and Darcy-Forchheimer equations
SpeakerMr. Liu Jingyu (City University of Hong Kong)