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.
Jenny Harrison, Colloquium Chair
Fall 2015
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Aug 27
|
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, UC Berkeley |
A glimpse at bi-free probability |
| Sep 3 |
|
State of the Department Address |
Sep 10
|
Kay Kirkpatrick, UIUC |
Bose-Einstein condensation: from many quantum particles to a quantum "superparticle" |
| Sep 17 |
Jim Bryan, University of British Columbia |
Curve counting on Abelian varieties, modular forms, and the combinatorics of box counting |
| Sep 24 |
Patrick Gérard, Université Paris-Sud |
Complete integrability versus wave turbulence for Hamiltonian PDEs |
| Oct 1 |
James Demmel, UC Berkeley |
Communication Avoiding Algorithms |
| Oct 8 |
Peter Bates, Michigan State University |
How should a drop of liquid on a smooth curved surface move in zero gravity? |
| Oct 15 |
Herbert Koch, University of Bonn |
Near soliton dynamics: Stability and blow up |
| Oct 22 |
Francesco Maggi, University of Texas at Austin |
Quantitative Geometric Inequalities and Applications |
| Oct 29 |
Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto |
The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and universality class |
| Nov 5 |
Martin Hairer, University of Warwick |
Taming infinities |
| Nov 12 |
Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University |
Stabilization and noise |
| Nov 19 |
Gigliola Staffilani, MIT |
Recent developments on certain dispersive equations as infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems |
| Nov 26 |
|
Thanksgiving |
| Dec 3 |
Oriol Vinyals, Google Brain Group |
Recent Advances in Deep Learning |
| Dec 10 |
Eliot Fried, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology |
Stability of ground states for problems involving competing line and surface energies |
