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 |