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.
Vivek Shende, Colloquium Chair
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Aug 30 | Rachel Ward, UT Austin | Stochastic Gradient Descent: Strong convergence guarantees – without parameter tuning |
| Sep 6 | ------------ | State of the Department |
| Sep 13 | Marie-Claude Arnaud, Avignon | Cantor invariant subsets of conservative 2-dimensional dynamics |
| Sep 20 | Sam Payne, UT Austin | Tropical curves, graph homology, and top weight cohomology of Mg |
| Sep 27 | Moon Duchin, Tufts | You can hear the shape of a billiard table |
| Oct 4 | ------------ | |
| Oct 11 | Jacob Tsimerman, University of Toronto | o-minimal GAGA and applications to Hodge theory |
| Oct 18 | Albert Fathi, Georgia Institute of Technology | Singularities of solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. A toy model: distance to a closed subset |
| Oct 25 | Eugene Gorsky, UC Davis | Hilbert schemes and link homology |
| Nov 1 | Tatsuki Kuwagaki, IPMU | Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and Fukaya category |
| Nov 8 | Colin Guillarmou, Orsay | Some applications of analytic techniques to geometric and dynamical system problems |
| Nov 15 | Fabian Haiden, IHES | Skein = Hall |
| Nov 22 | ------------ | Thanksgiving |
| Nov 29 | Claude Viterbo, Ecole Normale Supérieure | Persistent homology and applications from PDE to symplectic topology |