Speaker: 

Sean Howe

Institution: 

University of Utah

Time: 

Thursday, November 13, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Host: 

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.