Conferences
Exchanging research ideas at conferences speeds up discovery and leads to new collaborations. Here are some of the conferences and workshops hosted at DU or organized by our faculty (with assistance from graduate students and staff), aligned with our active research areas.
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Geometric and Category-Theoretic approaches to Conformal Field Theory
January 4 - 9, 2026
Location: Banff International Research Station at Chennai Mathematical Institute, India
Research Areas: Algebraic Geometry, Category Theory, Mathematical Physics, Representation Theory
Organizers: Shashank Kanade, Angela Gibney, Swarnava Mukhopadhyay, Harshit Yadav, Florencia Orosz Hunziker
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RIMS Satellite Seminars: VOAs, Number Theory, and Combinatorics
December 8 - 12, 2025
Location: Kansai Seminar House, Kyoto
Research Areas: Vertex operator algebras, Number Theory, Combinatorics
Organizers: Shashank Kanade, Shunsuke Tsuchioka, Harshit Yadav, Hiroshi Yamauchi
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GNaT Jr - Groups, Nilpotence, and Tensors Junior Researchers Edition
October 11, 2025
Location: University of Denver
Research areas: Group Theory, Representation Theory
Organizer: Mandi Schaeffer Fry
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Western Sectional Meetings of the American Mathematical Society
May 14-15, 2022 (virtual, due to pandemic)
Location: University of Denver
Research areas: All areas of mathematics
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Recent developments in Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory
July 21 - July 25, 2025
Location: Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada
Research Areas: Mathematical Physics, Representation Theory, Topology, Number Theory
Organizers: Flor Orosz Hunziker, Sergei Gukov, Shashank Kanade, Andrew Linshaw, Thomas Creutzig
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Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics
Locations:
2025 (Ames, IA)
2024 (Milwaukee, WI)
2023 (Laramie, WY)
2022 (Denver, CO)
2021 (online)
2019 (Lawrence, KS)
2018 (Ames, IA)
2017 (Denver, CO)
2016 (Laramie, WY)
2015 (Ames, IA)
2014 (Denver, CO)Research area: Combinatorics
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Group Theory and Neighboring Disciplines (Jon Hall 75)
Aug 16-18, 2024
University of Denver
Research areas: group theory and related areas
Organizers: Mandi Shaeffer Fry and Petr Vojtechovsky
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Groups, Nilpotence, and Tensors
Groups, Nilpotence, and Tensors II
Mar 2, 2024
University of Denver
Organizers: Mandi Schaeffer Fry and Petr Vojtechovsky
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Group Theory and Number Theory: Interactions
Oct 16-20, 2023
Location: Princeton University
Research areas: group theory
Organizers: Mandi Shaeffer Fry
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Representation Theory, Calabi-Yau Manifolds, and Mirror Symmetry
November 28 - December 1, 2022
Location: Harvard University Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications
Research areas: Algebraic geometry, differential geometry, representation theory, mathematical physics
Organizers: Andrew Linshaw (PI) An Huang, Siu-Cheong Lau, Tsung-Ju Lee (co-PIs)
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BLAST
August 6-10, 2018
University of Denver
Research areas: Boolean Algebras; lattices, algebraic logic and quantum logic; universal algebra, set theory, set-theoretic and point-free topology.
Organizers: Rick Ball and Nick Galatos
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Mile High Conferences on Nonassociative Mathematics
4th Mile High Conference on Nonassociative Mathematics: July 29-August 5, 2017
3rd Mile High Conference on Nonassociative Mathematics: August 11-17, 2013
2nd Mile High Conference on Nonassociative Mathematics: June 21-27, 2009
Mile High Conference on Quasigroups, Loops, and Nonassociative Systems: July 2-9, 2005
all at University of Denver
Research areas: all aspects of nonassociative mathematics including quasigroups, loops, latin squares, Lie algebras, Jordan algebras, octonions, quandles and their applications
Organizers: Michael Kinyon and Petr Vojtechovsky
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Rocky Mountains-Great Plains Graduate Research Conferences in Combinatorics
4th Rocky Mountains-Great Plains Graduate Research Conference in Combinatorics
July 9-22, 2017
first week at DU, second week at University of Colorado Denver
Research areas: combinatorics
Organizers: Paul Horn
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Mini-Conference on Vertex Algebras
October 10-11, 2016
Research areas: vertex algebra
Organizers: Shashank Kanade and Andrew Linshaw
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West Coast Operator Algebra Seminar 2014
November 1-2, 2014
University of Denver
Research areas: functional analysis, operator algebras
Organizers: Alvaro Arias and Frederic Latremoliere
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Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Graduate Research Workshops in Combinatorics
July 27-August 9, 2014
University of Denver
Research areas: combinatorics
Organizers: Paul Horn
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Pingree Park Dynamical Systems School
July 13-18, 2014
at Pingree Park (Colorado State University)
Research area: ergodic theory and topological dynamics
Organizers: Nic Ormes and Ronnie Pavlov
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University of Denver Sesquicentennial Conference on Infinitary Ramsey Theory
May 24-28, 2014
University of Denver
Research areas: Ramsey theory
Organizers: Natasha Dobrinen
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Maximally Informal Gatherings (MIG)
April 6, 2013
April 28, 2012
April 9, 2011
November 14, 2009
University of Denver
Research areas: logic
Organizers: Natasha Dobrinen and Nick Galatos
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Rocky Mountain Discrete Mathematics Days
15th Rocky Mountain Discrete Mathematics Days: October 27, 2012
University of Denver
Research areas: discrete mathematics, particularly spectral graph theory
