Alexander Voronov, University of Minnesota Mysterious Duality   “Mysterious Duality” was suggested by Iqbal, Neitzke, and Vafa in 2001. They noticed that (already mysterious for any mathematician) toroidal compactifications of M-theory lead to the same series of combinatorial objects as del Pezzo surfaces (equally…

Dr. Michael Young at Iowa State will give a colloquium talk at the Department of Mathematics at UCR on Feb 26. While his research area is  in combinatorics, he started a  successful postbac program at Iowa State, and he was recently awarded an NSF grant to work on the issue of helping under-represented minority to …