At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 2002 Colloquium talks.
Spring 2002
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| September 2 | Richard E. Borcherds, UCB | Modular forms with singularities |
| January 24 | Kimmen Sjölander, Bioengineering, UCB | Protein function and structure prediction |
| January 31 | Peter Ozsvath, Princeton University | Holomorphic disks and low-dimensional topology |
| February 7 | DiPerna memorial lecture: Andrew Stuart, Warwick University | Extracting macroscopic dynamics |
| February 14 | Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology | Cupid's Monte Carlo: matchings, couplings and other tales of mixing |
| February 21 | Lisa Goldberg, Barra Inc. | Total risk |
| February 28 | Dan Boneh, Stanford University | Fast variants of the RSA cryptosystem |
| March 7 | Michael Kleber, Brandeis University | Representation theory, combinatorics, and a touch of quantum groups |
| March 14 | Nils Dencker, Lunds Universitet | The question of solvability |
| March 21 | Gérard Laumon, CNRS & Université Paris-Sud | An introduction to the Drinfeld-Langlands program |
| March 28 | Spring Break! | |
| April 4 | Sara Robinson, Science Journalist | Putting math in the paper without mangling it |
| April 11 | Maria Klawe, University of British Columbia | Playing mathematics, or hard fun |
| April 18 | Gadiel Seroussi, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | On hats and other covers |
| April 25 | Giovanni Felder, ETH Zürich, visiting MSRI | From numbers to q-numbers to elliptic numbers: the elliptic gamma function |
| May 2 | Hélène Esnault, Universität Essen | The determinant of the Gauss-Manin connection |
| May 9 | Manjul Bhargava, Clay Mathematics Institute & Princeton University | The representation of integers by quadratic forms |
The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10PM in 60 Evans Hall. Before the lecture, refreshments are served in 1015 Evans Hall (3:00pm-4:00pm). Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is cordially invited to attend.
Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr., Colloquium chair