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.
Olga Holtz, Colloquium Chair
Fall 2019
Date | Speaker | Title |
Sep 12 | Mina Aganagic, UC Berkeley | Quantum Geometric Representation Theory |
Sep 19 | Dan Romik, UC Davis | Orthogonal polynomial expansions for the Riemann xi function |
Sep 26 | John Voight, Dartmouth College | Identities for 1/π21/2 and special hypergeometric motives |
Oct 3 | Anna Wienhard, Universität Heidelberg | Non-commutative hyperbolic geometry |
Oct 10 | Nalini Anantharaman, CNRS and Université de Strasbourg | Quantum ergodicity and delocalization of Schrödinger eigenfunctions |
Oct 17 | Hari Bercovici, Indiana University Bloomington | Atoms of free convolutions and their relevance to random matrices |
Oct 24 | Maxim Kontsevich, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques | Quantum minimal surfaces |
Oct 31 | Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University | Recent advances on `hearing the shape of a drum' |
Nov 7 | Sergei Gukov, California Institute of Technology | Hidden Algebraic Structures in Topology |
Nov 14 | Simion Filip, IAS and CMI | Geometry and dynamics of K3 surfaces |
Nov 21 | Kirsten Wickelgren, Duke University | An arithmetic count of rational plane curves |
Nov 28 | ------------ | Thanksgiving |
Dec 5 | Hari Manoharan, Stanford University | Peeking into Lower and Higher Dimensions Using Designer Quantum Matter |
Dec 12 | Yuri Matiyasevich, Russian Academy of Sciences | Some numerical observations on Riemann's zeta function |