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.
Kenneth Ribet, Colloquium Chair
Fall 2017
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Aug 24 |
Günter M. Ziegler, Freie Universität Berlin |
Semi-algebraic sets of integer points |
| Aug 31 |
John Rhodes, UC Berkeley |
Boolean representations of simplicial complexes: beyond matroids |
| Sep 7 |
|
State of the Department Address |
| Sep 14 |
Kevin Costello, Perimeter Institute |
What is the AdS/CFT correspondence? |
| Sep 21 |
Alex Wright, Stanford |
Geometry, dynamics, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces |
| Sep 28 |
Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley |
Tensors and their Eigenvectors |
| Oct 5 |
Caroline Klivans, Brown University |
The Partitionability Conjecture |
| Oct 12 |
Jesus De Loera, UC Davis |
The first hundred years of Helly’s theorem |
| Oct 19 |
Nima Arkani-Hamed, IAS |
The Positive Geometry of Fundamental Physics, From Scattering
Amplitudes to the Wavefunction of the Universe |
| Oct 26 |
Alexander Postnikov, MIT |
Chip firing, root systems, permutohedra, and Coxeter arrangements |
| Nov 2 |
Keith Devlin, Stanford |
When the precision of mathematics meets the messiness of the world of people (Serge Lang Lecture) |
| Nov 9 |
Tomoko Kitagawa, UC Berkeley
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society
|
The Global Histories of Mathematics |
| Nov 16 |
Semyon Dyatlov, MIT/UC Berkeley |
What is quantum chaos? |
| Nov 23 |
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Thanksgiving |
| Nov 30 |
Federico Ardila, San Francisco State
University |
Algebraic Structures on Polytopes |
