The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 pm to 5:00 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 2013
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Jan 17 |
Alan Hammond, Oxford University |
Self-avoiding walks, phase separation and KPZ universality |
| Jan 24 |
Alan Newell, University of Arizona |
Phyllotaxis as a pattern forming front |
| Jan 31 |
Alberto Ibort, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid |
There is plenty of room at the boundary |
| Feb 7 |
Kristin Lauter, Microsoft |
ML Confidential: Machine Learning on Encrypted Data |
| Feb 14 |
Calvin C. Moore, UC Berkeley |
Group Cohomology for Topological Groups |
| Feb 21 |
Brendan Hassett, Rice Unviversity |
Rational curves on symplectic varieties |
| Feb 28 |
Sourav Chatterjee, Courant Institute and Stanford University
|
Invariant measures and the soliton resolution conjecture |
| Mar 7 |
Ko Honda, USC |
The equivalence of Heegaard Floer homology and embedded con- tact homology via open book decompositions |
| Mar 14 |
Frank Sottile, Texas A & M |
The future of computation in algebraic geometry |
| Mar 21 |
Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University |
Quantum mechanics, Eigenvalue problems and complex geometry |
| Mar 28 |
no colloquium - spring break |
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| Apr 4 |
Nicolas Burq, Orsay |
Eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator and randomness: when H ̈ormander’s Weyl formula and Levy’s concentration of measure phenomenon meet |
| Apr 11 |
Nigel Hitchin, Oxford University |
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| Apr 18 |
Nigel Hitchin, Oxford University |
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| Apr 25 |
Sarah Witherspoon Texas A & M |
Varieties for modules |
| May 2 |
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study |
Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and The Positive Grassmannian |
| May 9 |
Goncalo Tabuada, MIT |
Noncommutative motives
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