We meet most Fridays 3:20-4:10pm in Carver 401. Future Schedule is below. If you want to be added to the mailing list, please email Jason McCullough at jmccullo@iastate.edu.
Spring Schedule:
| Date | Speaker | Title | Institution |
| 1/23/2026 | No Talk this week | ||
| 1/30/2026 | Jason McCullough | Unimodality | ISU |
| 2/6/2026 | |||
| 2/13/2026 | |||
| 2/20/2026 | |||
| 2/27/2026 | |||
| 3/6/2026 | |||
| 3/13/2026 | Jason McCullough | Licci Ideals and Dynkin Diagrams | ISU |
| 3/20/2026 | No Talk - Spring Break | ||
| 3/27/2026 | Ryan Watson | TBD | Nebraska |
| 4/3/2026 | |||
| 4/10/2026 | Thiago Holleben | TBD | Dalhousie U |
| 4/17/2026 | |||
| 4/24/2026 | |||
| 5/1/2026 | Adam LaClair | TBD | Nebraska |
| 5/8/2026 |
Fall Schedule:
| Date | Speaker | Title | Institution |
| 8/29/2025 | Meet and Greet - no talk | ||
| 9/5/2025 | Jason McCullough | Introduction to Licci Ideals | ISU |
| 9/12/2025 | Jason McCullough | Quadratic and Koszul Licci Ideals | ISU |
| 9/19/2025 | Caitlin Davis | Positivity and Koszulness for nonstandard gradings | Wisconsin |
| 9/26/2025 | Juliann Geraci | Neural rings with applications to boolean matrix factorization | Nebraska |
| 10/3/2025 | Anna Zamojska-Dzienio | Barycentric algebras and barycentric coordinates | ISU / Warsaw U Tech |
| 10/10/2025 | Anna Zamojska-Dzienio | Barycentric algebras and barycentric coordinates (cont.) | ISU / Warsaw U Tech |
| 10/17/2025 | No talk this week | ||
| 10/24/2025 | Tathagata Basak | Sums of Squares | ISU |
| 10/31/2025 | Sean Grate | Betti tables forcing failure of the weak Lefschetz property | ISU |
| 11/7/2025 | Vinh Nguyen | Symbolic Powers of Matroids and their Resolution | Arkansas |
| 11/14/2025 | No talk this week | ||
| 11/21/2025 | Tathagata Basak | Sums of Cubes | ISU |
| 11/28/2025 | No talk this week - Thanksgiving | ||
| 12/5/2025 | Anna Zamojska-Dzienio | Quasigroup language for set-theoretical solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation | ISU / Warsaw U Tech |
| 12/12/2025 | No talk this week |