At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 1999 Colloquium talks.
Spring 1999
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 21 | Peter Sarnak, Princeton University | Spectra of elements in some group rings |
| January 28 | Heinz-Otto Kreiss, UCLA | DiPerna Lecture, The numerical solution of nonlinear time-dependent partial differential equations |
| February 4 | Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University | Diffeomorphisms with robust statistical properties |
| February 11 | Allen Knutson, Brandeis University | Hermitian matrices, tensor products, and honeycombs |
| February 18 | Daqing Wan, UC Irvine | Introduction To Dwork's Conjecture |
| February 25 | Oscar E. Lanford, ETH Zürich | What really happens when a smooth expanding map is iterated on the computer |
| March 4 | Ranee Brylinski, Penn State University | Star products and quantization of manifolds with symmetry |
| March 11 | George C. Papanicolaou, Stanford University | Joint Math-Geophysics colloquium: Time reversal imaging |
| March 18 | Richard Taylor, Harvard University and UC Berkeley | The local Langlands conjecture |
| March 25 | Spring Break! | |
| April 1 | Jim Pitman, Statistics Department, UC Berkeley | Brownian excursions, random trees, and random partitions |
| April 8 | Katherine F. Stevenson, Caltech | Fundamental groups in positive characteristic |
| April 15 | Siddhartha Sahi, Rutgers University | Kontsevich's deformation quantization and invariant differential operators |
| April 22 | David Hoffman, MSRI | Properly embedded minimal surfaces of finite topology |
| April 29 | George Oster, UC Berkeley Departments of Environmental Science, Policy and Management; and Molecular and Cell Biology | Mathematics Awareness Month Lecture: The world's smallest rotary motor |
| May 6 | Eric Friedlander, Northwestern University and MSRI | K-theory and cohomology theories |
The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10PM in 60 Evans Hall. Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is warmly invited to attend.
Kenneth A. Ribet, colloquium chair