| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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