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