Mentor Lecture Series

The Mentor Lecture Series is designed for first and second year graduate students. The series aims to acquaint beginning graduate students with potential dissertation supervisors whom they might not otherwise closely encounter, and to impart a taste of research activity in the mathematics department in order to help beginning students choose fields of specialization.

Daniel Erman and I ran the Mentor Lecture Series in Spring and Fall 2006. The schedule can be found below.

The organizers for Fall 2007 are Shaowei Lin and Diogo Oliveira E Silva. The Fall 2007 schedule is here.

Spring and Fall 2006 Schedule

Monday, December 4, 2006
David Eisenbud
Interpolation of Polynomials

Monday, November 20, 2006
Theodore Slaman
Mathematical Logic

Monday, October 30, 2006
Constantin Teleman
Structures in Topological Field Theories

Monday, October 16, 2006
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou
Macroscopic descriptions of large stochastic and deterministic systems

Monday, October 2, 2006
Martin Olsson
The Fundamental Group and Galois Theory

Monday, September 18, 2006
Mina Aganagic
On String Theory, Geometry, and Duality

Monday, May 8, 2006
Richard Borcherds
What is a field theory?

Monday, April 17, 2006
Ming Gu
Matrix Computations: Matrix structures and fast algorithms

Monday, March 20, 2006
Hugh Woodin
The Transfinite Universe

Monday, February 13, 2006
Daniel Tataru
Nonlinear Dispersive Equations

Monday, January 30, 2006
Yuval Peres
Bernoulli Convolutions