| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| January 20 |
Rachel Ward, Courant Institute, New York University |
Fast dimensionality reduction: improved bounds and implications for compressed sensing/td> |
| January 27 |
Vladimir Rokhlin, Yale University |
A randomized approximate nearest neighbors algorithm |
| February 3 |
Bjorn Poonen, MIT |
x2 + y3 = z7 |
| February 10, 159 Mulford Hall |
Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University |
String theory and the geometry of the universe's hidden dimensions (Expository lecture) |
| February 17 |
John Ball, Oxford University |
The de Gennes theory of liquid crystals |
| February 24 |
Jenny Harrison, UC Berkeley |
Has Plateau's Problem been solved? |
| March 3 |
Keith Conrad, University of Connecticut and UC Berkeley |
Why do we care about the Riemann Hypothesis? |
| March 10 |
Kari Vilonen, Northwestern University |
The microlocal codimension-three conjecture |
| March 17 |
Vaughan Jones, UC Berkeley |
Random matrices, von Neumann algebras and (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theories |
| March 31 |
Hendrik Lenstra, Universiteit Leiden |
Modeling finite fields |
| April 21 |
Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University |
Finite approximations of infinite structures |
| April 28 |
Andrew Granville, University of Montreal |
Patterns in the primes |