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Instituto de Matemáticas de la UNAM summaries

Every long episode from Instituto de Matemáticas de la UNAM, read in minutes: the key takeaways, the chapters, and a digest of the whole conversation.

¿Cómo mezclar un mazo de cartas? Caminatas aleatorias y álgebras de Iwahori-Hecke.

Explore random walks on groups using Iwahori-Hecke algebras to model card shuffling, revealing insights into mixing times and spectral gaps.

March 19, 2026

Computational Complexity and Explanations in Physics

Explore how computational complexity impacts physics, from quantum computing's philosophical implications to its role in black hole paradoxes and thermodynamics.

March 18, 2026

Ximena Catepillán en Diálogos entre Matemáticas y cultura

Explore the mathematical structures within indigenous kinship systems, revealing group theory and abstract algebra embedded in cultural practices.

March 18, 2026

Edmund Harriss en Diálogos entre Matemáticas y Cultura

Explore the profound connection between art and mathematics, revealing how mathematical thinking can enrich artistic creation and vice-versa, leading to new forms of expression and understanding.

March 3, 2026

La inevitabilidad de los agujeros negros y la topología de su horizonte.

Explore the inevitability of black holes and their event horizon topology through advanced spacetime geometry and causality theory.

February 25, 2026

El problema del encaje de árboles en gráficas

Exploring tree embedding in graphs and digraphs, focusing on density conditions and degree properties to guarantee subgraph containment.

February 24, 2026

Modelos subrogados en problemas inversos de EDPs

Leveraging surrogate models drastically accelerates solving complex inverse problems in PDEs, offering significant computational speedups and robust uncertainty quantification.

February 24, 2026

Estructuras DC en espacios de Alexandrov

Explore Alexandrov spaces, a generalization of Riemannian geometry, focusing on intrinsic curvature and non-smooth manifolds.

February 13, 2026

as bombonas o “convexidad proyectiva compleja”

Discover "bombonas", a new class of complex geometric objects with unique line intersection properties, generalizing complex ellipsoids and offering insights into projective geometry.

February 6, 2026

Y aquella que las controlase, buena controladora será

Explora la historia, matemáticas y aplicaciones del control en ingeniería y ciencias, resaltando que la teoría matemática avanzada es esencial para controlar sistemas complejos y peligrosos.

January 14, 2026

Construcción Dinámica de Portafolios Óptimos mediante Muestreo Estocástico Convexo

Fernando Suárez explains advanced portfolio construction using stochastic sampling, addressing limitations of classical models and proposing a dynamic, risk-decreasing glidepath approach.

December 11, 2025

La ley del semicírculo de Wigner

Explora la ley del semicírculo de Wigner, que describe el comportamiento de los valores propios de matrices aleatorias, revelando conexiones con combinatoria y probabilidades.

December 10, 2025

13 Encuentro Pavao Mardesic

Pavo Mardesic discusses zero cycles and their displacement functions, providing insights into mathematical principles in deformation theory.

December 10, 2025

12 Encuentro Jessica Jaurez

Jessica Jaurez explores the tangency of foliations in the context of differential equations and their analytic classification.

December 10, 2025

11 Encuentro Laura Ortiz

This talk elaborates on the geometric interpretation of analytic invariance in singular vector fields, leveraging classification frameworks and emphasizing the importance of roots in description.

December 10, 2025

10 Encuentro Oziel Gómez

In this talk, analytic invariance and critical foliation in differential equations are explored, focusing on their implications for analyzing singularities.

December 10, 2025

9 Encuentro Xavier Gómez-Mont

This lecture discusses polynomial vector fields and their dynamics on C2 and the three-dimensional sphere, emphasizing attractors and repellers.

December 10, 2025

8 Encuentro Adolfo Guillot

Foliated projective structures on complex curves are explored, emphasizing their uniformizability and the impact of singularities in their existence.

December 10, 2025

7 Encuentro Lilia Alanís

Explora la monodromía de curvas, resolución de singularidades y cómo triángulos topológicos y boquillas revelan la topología de la fibra de Milnor y la representación monodromica.

December 10, 2025

5 Encuentro Jesús Muciño

This talk explores polynomial differential equations and their perturbations, focusing on Ablian integrals and their zeros to understand dynamical systems.

December 10, 2025