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.
Olga Holtz, Colloquium Chair
Fall 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Aug 29 | Tomaso Poggio, MIT | The Computational Magic of the Ventral Stream: Sketch of a Theory |
| Sept 12 | Yitang Zhang, University of New Hampshire | Recent Developments on the distribution of primes in arithmetic progressions |
| Sept 26 | Andrea Albrecht, University of Stuttgart | On the "Character Building Power" of Mathematics |
| Oct 3 | Stephen Smale, City University of Hong Kong | Protein Folding: Introduction and New Results |
| Oct 10 | Tobias Ekholm, Uppsala University | Knot contact homology and topological strings |
| Oct 17 | Gil Kalai, Hebrew University Jerusalem | Analysis of Boolean Functions |
| Oct 24 | Nikhil Srivastava, Microsoft Research Bangalore | Mixed Characteristic Polynomials and the Kadison-Singer Problem |
| Oct 31 | Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research Theory Group | Search games and Optimal Kakeya Sets |
| Nov 14 | Lasse Rempe-Gillen, University of Liverpool | Density of Axiom A in Arnold's standard family |
| Nov 21 | Vera Serganova, UC Berkeley | Supersymmetry and categorification |
| Dec 5 | Hikaru Nakajima, RIMS, Kyoto University | Kazhdan-Lusztig conjecture via quasimaps |