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.
Nicolai Reshetikhin, Colloquium Chair
Spring 2014
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Speaker |
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| Jan 23 - at 3:10pm |
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| Jan 23 - at 4:10pm |
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| Jan 30 |
Bjorn Poonen, MIT |
Undecidability in number theory - (1st Colloquium is the Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture)
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| Feb 6 |
Richard Bamler, Stanford University |
Long-time behavior of Ricci flows and construction of Einstein metrics
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| Feb 20 |
Charles L. Epstein, University of Pennsylvania |
Degenerate Diffusions arising in Population Genetics
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| Feb 27 |
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| Mar 6 |
Bowen Lectures
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| Mar 13 |
Allen Knutson, Cornell University
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Geometric reasons to associate juggling patterns to matrices
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| Mar 20 |
Alvaro Pelayo, Washington University in St. Louis |
Symplectic and spectral geometry of integrable systems
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| Mar 27 |
Spring Break
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| Apr 3 |
Mike Steel, U. of Canterbury, NZ
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Tractable models for some discrete random processes arising in evolutionary biology
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| Apr 10 |
Dan Freed, U. of Texas at Austin
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Chern-Weil forms and abstract homotopy theory
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| Apr 17 |
F. Alberto Grünbaum, UC Berkeley |
Some non-commutative matrix algebras arising in the bispectral problem
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| Apr 24 |
Max Karoubi, Institute de Mathematique de Jussieu, Paris |
Hermitian K-theory invariants in real Algebraic Geometry
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| May 1 |
June Huh, University of Michigan |
Homology classes in algebraic varieties: nef, effective, and prime
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| May 8 |
Jorgen Andersen, Center for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces, University of Aarhus, Denmark |
Understanding the geometry of moduli spaces via curves on surfaces
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| May 15 |
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| May 22 |
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