The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm virtually. 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.
Ken Ribet, Colloquium Chair
Fall 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| August 27 | Tatyana Shcherbyna, Princeton University | Random matrix theory and supersymmetry techniques |
| September 3 | no colloquium (State of the Department meeting) | |
| September 10 | Jeremy Hahn, MIT | Higher algebra in the classification of highly connected manifolds |
| September 17 | Corinna Ulcigrai, University of Zürich | *** This talk will be at 3:10PM, not 4:10PM *** Shearing, Ratner properties and slow chaos in surface flows |
| September 24 | Mboyo Esole, Northeastern University | Crepant resolutions of elliptic fibrations and string theory |
| October 1 | Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin | The problem of legislative districting: geometry, complexity, and democracy |
| October 8 | Daniel Litt, University of Georgia | Arithmetic topology and the fundamental group |
| October 15 | Weinan E, Princeton University | A Mathematical Perspective of Machine Learning |
| October 22 | Pamela E. Harris, Williams College | Recent results on Kostant’s partition function |
| October 29 | Olof Sisask, Stockholm University, and Thomas Bloom, University of Cambridge (joint colloquium) |
Three-term arithmetic progressions in sets of integers |
| November 5 | Shinichi Mochizuki, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University |
Classical Roots of Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory |
| November 12 | Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington | Cohomology of finite dimensional algebras |
| November 19 | Emily Riehl, Johns Hopkins University | Elements of ∞-Category Theory |
| November 26 | No colloquium, Thanksgiving | |
| December 3 | Sunčica Čanić, UC Berkeley | Moving Boundary Problems and Medicine |
| December 10 | RRR Week [but there might be a talk] |