Department Colloquium

Fall 2009




DateSpeakerTitle
September 3 Scott Morrison, UC Berkeley Small Fusion Categories
September 17 Kristen Lauter, Microsoft Research Expander graphs and their applications to hash functions
October 1 Arthur Ogus, UC Berkeley Logarithmic Geometry
October 15 Hannah Markwig, Göttingen Wall-crossing formulas for tropical Hurwitz numbers
October 22 Alberto Grunbaum, UC Berkeley Quantum and classical random walks
November 5 Benedict H. (Dick) Gross, Harvard The real and p-adic lives of n!
November 12 Vera Sos, Rényi Institute To Be Announced
November 19 Christophe Soulé, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) Secant varieties and successive minima
December 3 Greg Kuperberg, UC Davis What quantum computation and quantum information are really about


The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10pm in 60 Evans Hall. As of September 2005 we will typically have two talks every month. Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is cordially invited to attend.

Kenneth Ribet, Colloquium Chair