Fall 2021 Colloquium
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.
Olga Holtz, Colloquium Chair
Zoom link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/92809014403
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 9 | Jose A. Carrillo, University of Oxford | Nonlocal Aggregation-Diffusion Equations: entropies, gradient flows, phase transitions and applications |
| September 16 | ||
| September 23 | Alice Guionnet, École normale supérieure de Lyon |
Bernoulli Random Matrices |
| September 30 | Laura Rider, University of Georgia |
Examples of t-structures in Geometric Representation Theory |
| October 7 | Mina Aganagic, University of California, Berkeley |
(Homological) knot invariants from mirror symmetry |
| October 14 | Svetlana Jitomirskaya, University of California, Irvine |
Fractal properties of the Hofstadter butterfly, eigenvalues, and topological phase transitions |
| October 21 | Maggie Miller, Stanford University | Concordance of surfaces in 4-manifolds |
| October 28 | Blake Temple, University of California, Davis |
On the Regularity Implied by the Hypotheses of Geometry |
| November 4 | Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley | Internal waves in 2D aquaria and homeomorphisms of the circle |
| November 11 | Veterans Day (no colloquium) |
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| November 18 | Caucher Birkar, Tsinghua University |
Boundedness and moduli of algebraic varieties |
| November 25 | Thanksgiving (no colloquium) |
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| December 2 | Ian Agol, University of California-Berkeley |
Volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
| December 9 | Shamgar Gurevich, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Harmonic Analysis on GLn over Finite Fields |
