At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 2004 Colloquium talks.
Spring 2004
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 22 | Richard Kenyon, Orsay | Asymptotics of discrete interfaces |
| January 29 | Peter Teichner, UC San Diego | Elliptic cohomology via conformal field theories |
| February 5 | Benoit Perthame, ENS, Paris | DiPerna Lecture: Kinetic formulations of conservation laws |
| February 12 | Curt McMullen, Harvard | Dynamics on complex surfaces |
| February 19 | Gang Tian, MIT | Special Riemannian geometry of 4-manifolds |
| February 26 | Horng-Tzer Yau, Stanford University | Scaling limits of quantum dynamics of many-body systems |
| March 4 | Ravi Vakil, Stanford University | A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule |
| March 11 | Nicolas Burq, Orsay | Nonlinear Schrodinger equation on compact manifolds |
| March 18 | Vladimir Rokhlin, Yale University | Fast direct solvers for scattering problems |
| March 25 | Spring Break! | |
| April 1 | Allen Knutson, UC Berkeley | Why do matrices commute? |
| April 8 | William P. Reinhardt, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington | Quantum Mechanics in the Large: Solitons and Schrodinger cats in the gaseous Bose-EinsteIn condensate |
| April 15 | Kari Vilonen, Northwestern University | Topology of algebraic varieties and the Langlands |
| April 22 | Iain Gordon, University of Glasgow | Symplectic reflection algebras |
| April 29 | Julia Kempe, LRI-Orsay | TBA |
| May 6 | Elon Lindenstrauss, Courant Institute | TBA |
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 cordially invited to attend.
Maciej Zworski, Colloquium chair