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.
Maciej Zworski, Colloquium Chair
Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Aug 28 | Jan Derezinski, University of Warsaw | On the excitation spectrum of the Bose gas |
| Sep 4 | State of the department address | |
| Sep 11 | Ronald Graham, UC San Diego | Combinatorics and Linear Equations |
| Sep 18 | Melody Chan, Harvard University | From combinatorics to algebraic geometry and back |
| Sep 25 | Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota | Localization of the eigenfunctions and associated free boundary problems |
| Oct 2 | Fan Chung Graham, UC San Diego | Semigroup spectral theory and graph coloring games |
| Oct 9 | David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie Mellon University | Microstructure meets Boltzmann: The evolution of microstructure, energy and entropy |
| Oct 16 | Tony DeRose, Pixar | Math in the movies (Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture) |
| Oct 23 | Elon Lindenstrauss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Rigidity of higher rank abelian actions and equidistribution |
| Oct 30 | Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University | Degenerating solutions of some gauge field equations |
| Nov 6 | Michael Christ, UC Berkeley | On the fine structure of classical inequalities, with an assist from additive combinatorics |
| Nov 13 | Ngô Bảo Châu, University of Chicago | The fundamental lemma (Chern Lecture) |
| Nov 20 | Steven Sam, UC Berkeley | Representation stability and finite linear groups |
| Nov 27 | Thanksgiving holiday | |
| Dec 4 | Semyon Dyatlov, MIT | A microlocal toolbox for hyperbolic dynamics |
| Dec 11 | André Henriques, Universiteit Utrecht | Bott periodicity and beyond |
| Dec 18 |