Speaker:
Sean Howe
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Institution:
University of Utah
Time:
Thursday, November 13, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Location:
RH 306
What is the second moment of a random smooth plane curve? Is the multiset of eigenvalues of a random orthogonal matrix a Gaussian random variable? Is a random compact Riemann surface a Poisson process? In this talk, I will describe a categorified version of probability theory that makes these nonsense questions into precise mathematics and give some applications to the topology and arithmetic of moduli spaces in algebraic geometry.
