At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 2000 Colloquium talks.
Spring 2000
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 20 | Ming Gu, UCLA | Some new progress in matrix computations |
| January 27 | Eitan Tadmore, UCLA | DiPerna Lecture: High Resolution, Negative Norms and the Convergence of Central Schemes |
| February 3 | Albert Schwartz, UC Davis | Noncommutative geometry and duality in physics |
| February 10 | Peter W. Shor, AT&T Research | A survey of quantum algorithms |
| February 17 | Tatiana Toro, University of Washington | Potential theory and regularity of non-smooth domains |
| February 24 | Mark Haiman, UC San Diego | Macdonald polynomials, Hilbert schemes, and the McKay correspondence |
| March 2 | Richard Montgomery, UC Santa Cruz | Figure eights with three bodies |
| March 9 | Doron Levy, UC Berkeley | Optimal prediction methods for nonlinear PDEs |
| March 16 | Tobias Colding, Courant Institute | Embedded minimal surfaces and 3-manifold topology |
| March 23 | Arnaud Beauville, Universite de Paris-Sud | Riemannian holonomy and algebraic geometry |
| March 30 | Spring Break! | |
| April 6 | Stephen Bigelow, UC Berkeley | Representations of braid groups |
| April 13 | Patrick Gerard, Universite de Paris-Sud | Semiclassical measures and propagation of high frequency waves in oscillating media |
| April 20 | Dror Bar-Natan, Hebrew University and UC Berkeley | From Stonehenge to Drinfeld's skipping all the details |
| April 27 | Daniel Tataru, Northwestern University | The FBI transform, Strichartz type estimates and the nonlinear wave equation |
| May 4 | Tony DeRose, Pixar Animation Studios | How geometry is changing Hollywood |
The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10pm in 60 Evans Hall, except the Chern lecture on September 16, which takes place in Sibley Auditorium (Bechtel Hall), and the Bowen lectures, which take place in 10 Evans (November 9 & 11) and 50 Birge (November 10). Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is cordially invited to attend.
Maciej Zworski, Colloquium chair