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 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Jan 21 | Ana Caraiani, Princeton University | Locally symmetric spaces and torsion classes |
| Jan 28 | Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland | Stochastic Arnold diffusion of deterministic systems |
| Feb 4 | Scott Armstrong, Université Paris-Dauphine | A quantitative theory of stochastic homogenization |
| Feb 11 | Vasudevan Srinivas, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | What are the Bloch-Beilinson Conjectures? |
| Feb 18 | Gilles Lebeau, Université de Nice | Strichartz Inequalities (DiPerna Lecture) |
| Feb 25 | Alexander Polishchuk, University of Oregon | Geometry of matrix factorizations |
| Mar 3 | Nike Sun, UC Berkeley | The exact k-SAT threshold for large k |
| Mar 10 | Edriss Titi, Texas A&M University and Weizmann Institute of Science | Is Dispersion a Stabilizing or Destabilizing Mechanism? |
| Mar 17 | Alex Eskin, University of Chicago | SL(2,R)(2,) orbit closures: theorems and counterexamples (Chern Lecture) |
| Mar 24 | Spring Break | |
| Mar 31 | Greg Blekherman, Georgia Tech | Geometry of Nonnegative Polynomials and Sums of Squares |
| Apr 7 | Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford University | Hidden symmetries acting on the cohomology of arithmetic manifolds |
| Apr 14 | Michael Singer, University College London | Monopoles, configurations and the Sen conjectures |
| Apr 21 | Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Princeton University | Q-curvature, some survey and recent development |
| Apr 28 | Tobias Colding, MIT | Level set flow |