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 |
