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 |
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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 $M_g$ |
| Sep 27 |
Moon Duchin, Tufts |
You can hear the shape of a billiard table |
| Oct 4 |
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| 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 |
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Thanksgiving |
| Nov 29 |
Claude Viterbo, Ecole Normale Supérieure |
Persistent homology and applications from PDE to symplectic topology |
