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.

Vivek Shende, Colloquium Chair

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Title
Aug 30	Rachel Ward, UT Austin	Stochastic Gradient Descent: Strong convergence guarantees – without parameter tuning
Sep 6	------------	State of the Department
Sep 13	Marie-Claude Arnaud, Avignon	Cantor invariant subsets of conservative 2-dimensional dynamics
Sep 20	Sam Payne, UT Austin	Tropical curves, graph homology, and top weight cohomology of $M_g$
Sep 27	Moon Duchin, Tufts	You can hear the shape of a billiard table
Oct 4	------------
Oct 11	Jacob Tsimerman, University of Toronto	o-minimal GAGA and applications to Hodge theory
Oct 18	Albert Fathi, Georgia Institute of Technology	Singularities of solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. A toy model: distance to a closed subset.
Oct 25	Eugene Gorsky, UC Davis	Hilbert schemes and link homology
Nov 1	Tatsuki Kuwagaki, IPMU	Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and Fukaya category
Nov 8	Colin Guillarmou, Orsay	Some applications of analytic techniques to geometric and dynamical system problems
Nov 15	Fabian Haiden, IHES	Skein = Hall
Nov 22	------------	Thanksgiving
Nov 29	Claude Viterbo, Ecole Normale Supérieure	Persistent homology and applications from PDE to symplectic topology

Department Colloquium

Fall 2018

Past Colloquium Schedules