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Department Colloquium

The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm in 60 Evans Hall. We will have at least 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

Fall 2017

Date Speaker Title
Aug 24 Günter M. Ziegler, Freie Universität Berlin Semi-algebraic sets of integer points
Aug 31 John Rhodes, UC Berkeley Boolean representations of simplicial complexes: beyond matroids
Sep 7   State of the Department Address
Sep 14 Kevin Costello, Perimeter Institute What is the AdS/CFT correspondence?
Sep 21 Alex Wright, Stanford Geometry, dynamics, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces
Sep 28 Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley Tensors and their Eigenvectors
Oct 5    
Oct 12    
Oct 19 Nima Arkani-Hamed, IAS The Positive Geometry of Fundamental Physics, From Scattering Amplitudes to the Wavefunction of the Universe
Oct 26    
Nov 2 Keith Devlin, Stanford When the precision of mathematics meets the messiness of the world of people (Serge Lang Lecture)
Nov 9    
Nov 16    
Nov 23 ------------ Thanksgiving
Nov 30    
     
     

Past Colloquium Schedules