The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 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.
Olga Holtz, Colloquium Chair
Fall 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sep. 1 | Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley | Symplectic and Quantum Categories |
| Sep. 8 | Peter Scholze, Universität Bonn | Perfectoid Spaces |
| Sep. 15 | Per-Olof Persson, UC Berkeley | High-Order Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws |
| Sep. 22 | Pierre Colmez, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu | The p-adic local Langlands correspondence for GL2(Qp) |
| Sep. 29 | Ronny Hadani, University of Texas at Austin | Representation theoretic patterns in three dimensional cryo-electron microscopy |
| Oct. 6 | Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago | Disordered Solids and the dynamics of manifolds of bounded geometry |
| Oct. 13 | Efim Zelmanov, UC San Diego | Asymptotic properties of finite groups |
| Oct. 20 | Avi Wigderson, IAS | The power and weakness of randomness (when you are short on time) |
| Oct. 27 | Almut Burchard, University of Toronto | Gradient flow methods for thin film and related higher order equations |
| Nov. 3 | Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University | Hairy graphs, modular forms and automorphism groups of free groups |
| Nov. 10 | Ken Ono, UW-Madison and Emory University | The legacy of Ramanujan's mock theta functions: Harmonic Maass forms in number theory |
| Nov. 17 | Lauren Williams, UC Berkeley | Combinatorics of shallow water waves |
| Dec. 2 | Alan Sokal, NYU (note unusual day of the week) | Some wonderful conjectures (but very few theorems) at the boundary between analysis, combinatorics and probability |