I plan to have most of our CAGS talks conducted in person. If you cannot make it to campus for the talk, please email me and I will send you a Zoom link. A few of our CAGS talks, some international talks for example, might only be virtual on Zoom. All talks will be given 12:30 -- 1:30 PM on Fridays in our Seminar room Exploratory Hall, room 4106 unless otherwise stated. The room is equipped with white boards, and a projector. -- If you like to participate please send me, your devoted CAGS Chair, an email and I will try my best to schedule your talk. If you prefer to give a Zoom talk then I will send you a Zoom invitation.
CAGS Chair: Geir Agnarsson
The CAGS is intended as an informal venue, where faculty members, graduate students, visitors from near and far can come and give informal talks on their research, interesting new topics, open problems or just share their thoughts/ideas on anything interesting relating to combinatorics, algebra and discrete geometry. Needless to say, all are welcome to attend, and those who want to give a talk, should email me Geir ("gagnarss followed by the at sign gmu period edu") the title and a short abstract. The talks should be no longer than 50 minutes long; leaving a few minutes for questions, comments and further discussions afterwards.
For other seminars and regular meetings, check our departmental Seminars & Colloquiums
Spring 2026
February 6~
Matrix and Clifford algebras
Geir Agnarsson
February 13~
The Briançon-Skoda Theorem via Weak Functoriality of Big Cohen-Macaulay Algebras
Sandra Rodriguez Villalobos
February 27~
Joint CAGS and Colloquium talk!
An Algebraic Approach to Coding Theory
Hiram H López
March 20~
Homological invariants of neural codes
Rebecca R.G.
March 27~
Voronoi Percolation: Topological Stability and Giant Cycles
Morgan Shuman
April 3~
Cubulating the associahedron
Gabe Udell
April 10~
Note new time!
Reciprocal complements: a new construction on integral domains
Neil Epstein
April 17~
A characteristic-free approach to isolated singularities
Yotam Svoray