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.

Lauren Williams, Colloquium Chair

Spring 2018

Date	Speaker	Title
Jan 18	Jared Weinstein, Boston University	Complex multiplication, from Abel to Zagier
Jan 25	Wilhelm Schlag, University of Chicago	On the long-term dynamics of nonlinear dispersive evolution equations(DiPerna lecture)
Feb 1	Shelly Harvey, Rice University	Largeness of 3-manifold group that resemble free groups
Feb 8	Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study	Mathematics and Computation: Proving Algebraic Identities (Bowen lectures)
Feb 15	Samit Dasgupta, UC Santa Cruz	Stark's conjectures and Hilbert's 12th problem
Feb 22	Akhil Matthew, University of Chicago	p-adic algebraic K-theory and topological cyclic homology
Mar 1	Monica Vazirani, UC Davis	Combinatorics, Categorification, and Crystals
Mar 8	Greta Panova, University of Pennsylvania	From Algebraic Combinatorics to Geometric Complexity Theory
Mar 15	Aner Shalev, Hebrew University	Groups, probability and representations
Mar 22	Martin Hairer, Imperial College London	Singular stochastic PDEs: Regularity structures (Chern lectures)
Mar 29	------------	Spring Break
Apr 5	Sylvie Corteel, CNRS/Université Paris Diderot	Combinatorics of the asymmetric simple exclusion process
Apr 12	Dusa McDuff, Barnard College	Different approaches to the virtual moduli cycle -- an elementary introduction
Apr 19	Konstanze Rietsch, King's College London	Mirror Symmetry for Grassmannians
Apr 26	Song Sun, UC Berkeley	Metric collapsing of hyperkahler K3 surfaces

Department Colloquium

Spring 2018

Past Colloquium Schedules