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 |
$SL(2,\mathbb R)$ 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 developement |
| Apr 28 |
Tobias Colding, MIT |
Level set flow |
