Schedule of
StemForAll2026
Week 1: July 27- July 31
Monday, July 27
9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m. Introduction and program announcements
(Landers Auditorium)
9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Mini-course on uncertainty principle and
exact signal recovery by Alex Iosevich (Landers Auditorium)
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Break
11.00 a.m. - noon Mini-course on representation theory with
applications to signal recovery by Karam Aldahleh (Landers
Auditorium)
noon - 2.00 p.m. Lunch Break
2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. Guest lecture by Jonathan Pakianathan,
entitled "What are tessellations of Riemann surfaces?"
5.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Meetings of research groups without the
research supervisors
Tuesday, July 28
9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m. Check in with your research group (Landers
Auditorium)
9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Mini-course on uncertainty principle and
exact signal recovery by Alex Iosevich (Landers Auditorium)
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Break
11.00 a.m. - noon Mini-course on representation theory with
applications to signal recovery by Karam Aldahleh (Landers
Auditorium)
noon - 2.00 p.m. Lunch Break
2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. Guest lecture by Alex Iosevich, entitled "What
is the Erdos Distance Problem?"
5.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Meetings of research groups without the
research supervisors
Wednesday, July 29
9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m. Check in with your research group (Landers
Auditorium)
9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Mini-course on uncertainty principle and
exact signal recovery by Alex Iosevich (Landers Auditorium)
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Break
11.00 a.m. - noon Mini-course on representation theory with
applications to signal recovery by Karam Aldahleh (Landers
Auditorium)
noon - 2.00 p.m. Lunch Break
2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. Guest lecture by Neeraja Kulkarni, entitled
"What is the Kakeya Conjecture?"
5.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Meetings of research groups without the
research supervisors
Thursday, July 30
9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m. Check in with your research group (Landers
Auditorium)
9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Mini-course on uncertainty principle and
exact signal recovery by Alex Iosevich (Landers Auditorium)
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Break
11.00 a.m. - noon Mini-course on representation theory with
applications to signal recovery by Karam Aldahleh (Landers
Auditorium)
noon - 2.00 p.m. Lunch Break
2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. Guest lecture by Vishal Gupta, entitled "What
is spectral graph theory?"
5.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Meetings of research groups without the
research supervisors
Friday, July 31
9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m. Check in with your research group (Landers
Auditorium)
9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Mini-course on uncertainty principle and
exact signal recovery by Alex Iosevich (Landers Auditorium)
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Break
11.00 a.m. - noon Mini-course on representation theory with
applications to signal recovery by Karam Aldahleh (Landers
Auditorium)
noon - 2.00 p.m. Lunch Break
2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. Guest lecture by Svetlana Pack, entitled "What
is Kolmogorov complexity?"
5.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Meetings of research groups without the
research supervisors
Week 2: August 3 - August 7
Monday, August 3 - Wednesday, August 6
9.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Meetings with research supervisors
11.00 a.m. - 2 p.m. Lunch/independent study
2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Meetings without research supervisors
7.00 p.m. - 8 p.m. Meetings of the research groups without the
supervisors
Thursday, August 6
9.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Meetings with research supervisors
11.00 a.m. - 2 p.m. Lunch/independent study
2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. Panel discussion on academic and industry
jobs in Landers Auditorium. The composition of the panel will
be announced shortly.
5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. Meetings without research supervisors
7.30 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. Meetings of the research groups without the
supervisors
Friday, August 7
8.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Research groups prepping final presentations
1.00 p.m. The final presentations in Landers Auditorium.