The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 pm in 60 Evans Hall. We will have at least two talks every month. Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is cordially invited to attend.
Maciej Zworski, Colloquium Chair
Spring 2012
Date | Speaker | Title |
Jan. 19 | Xinyi Yuan, Princeton University | Introduction to the Gross--Zagier formula |
Jan. 26 | Di Perna Lecture | |
Feb. 2 | Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago | Absolute continuity, exponents, and rigidity |
Feb. 9 | George Lakoff, UC Berkeley Linguistics | The Cognitive and Neural Basis of Mathematics: The Case of Gödel's Metaphors |
Feb. 16 | George Bergman, UC Berkeley | Thoughts on Eggert's Conjecture |
Feb. 23 | Curt McMullen, Harvard University | Entropy, integers and moduli of surfaces |
March. 1 | Bowen Lecture | |
March. 8 | Andras Vasy, Stanford University | Scattering on hyperbolic and Lorentzian spaces |
March. 15 | Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University | Phylogenetic Algebraic Geometry |
March. 22 | TBA | |
March. 29 | Spring Break | |
April. 5 | Ben Green, Cambridge University | Some themes in additive combinatorics |
April. 12 | Chern Lecture | |
April. 19 | Chern Lecture | |
April. 26 | Barry Simon, Caltech | Natural boundaries and spectral theory |
May. 3 | Richard Kenyon, Brown University | Laplacians and laminations |