PhD Oral Defence: Arihant Jain
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Arihant Jain
DATE: Thursday, July 16, 2026
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 9:30 a.m. / BURN 1010C
Defence 9:45 .am. / BURN 1104
TITLE: p-adic Analogues of Borcherds' Lifts
CHAIR: Prof. Joel Kamnitzer
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Henri Darmon
PhD Oral Defence; Jack Tisdell
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Jack TisdellDATE: Monday, July 20, 2026
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 10:00 a.m. / BURN 1010C
Defence 10:15 .am. / BURN 1104
TITLE: Defects in optimal quantizers and problems in random quantization
CHAIR: Prof. Jerome Vetois
CO-SUPERVISOR: Prof. Rustum Choksi
PhD Oral Defence; Vincent Painchaud
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Vincent Painchaud
DATE: Monday, July 27, 2026
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 10:00am Burnside Hall, Room 1010C
Defence 10:15am Burnside Hall, Room 1104
PhD Oral Defence; Mr. Mingqi Wu
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence; Mr. Mingqi Wu
DATE: July 29, 2026
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 10:00 a.m. / BURN 1010C
Defence 10:15 .am. / BURN 1104
TITLE: Mechanisms of Denoising and Signal Preservation in Modern Representation Learning
CHAIR: Jérôme Vétois
PhD Oral Defence; Alexis Leroux-Lapierre
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence; Mr. Alexis Leroux-LapierreDATE: August 5, 2026
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 10:00 a.m. / Burnside Hall, Room 1010C
Defence 10:15 a.m. / Burnside Hall, Room 1104
TITLE: Representation theory of shifted Yangians: Asymptotic characters and Grothendieck rings
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