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
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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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