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.
Vivek Shende, Colloquium Chair
Spring 2015
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Jan 22
|
Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota |
PDE aspects of 2d incompressible flows (DiPerna Lecture) |
Jan 29
|
Caroline Uhler, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria |
Gene Regulation in Space and Time |
Feb 5
|
Frank Calegari, Northwestern |
Studying algebraic varieties through their cohomology
---Recent progress in the Langlands program |
Feb 12
|
Robert Kohn, Courant Institute, NYU |
A variational perspective on wrinkling patterns in thin elastic sheets |
Feb 19
|
Michael Weinstein, Columbia University |
Topologically protected edge states in continuous two-dimensional honeycomb structures |
Feb 26
|
David Dumas, University of Illinois at Chicago |
From polynomials to polygons via affine differential geometry |
Mar 5
|
V. Kumar Murty, University of Toronto |
Automorphy and the Sato-Tate conjecture |
Mar 12
|
David Ben-Zvi, UT Austin |
Geometric Harmonic Analysis |
Mar 19
|
Dusa McDuff, Barnard College, Columbia University |
Symplectic embeddings: constructions and obstructions (Bowen Lecture) |
Mar 26
|
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Spring Break |
Apr 2
|
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--- No Colloquium due to Tarski Lectures (Mar 30, Apr 1, Apr 3) --- |
Apr 9
|
Davide Gaiotto, Perimeter Institute |
Wall crossing in quantum field theory |
Apr 16
|
Yves Benoist, Université Paris-Sud |
Stationary measures on projective spaces |
Apr 23
|
Alex Eskin, University of Chicago |
Continuity of Lyapunov exponents for products of random matrices |
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