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 | Spring Break | |
| Apr 2 | --- 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 |