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.
Ken Ribet, Colloquium Chair
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 23 | special MSRI-sponsored event with Jennifer Doudna in Sibley Auditorium | How CRISPR genome editing technology is changing the future of humanity |
| January 30 | Dan Freed, University of Texas, Austin | Two applications of topology to condensed matter physics |
| February 6 | Alex Smith, Harvard University | 2k-Selmer groups and Goldfeld's conjecture |
| February 13 | Scott Morrison, Australian National University | Interactive Theorem Proving |
| February 20 | Sung-Jin Oh, UC Berkeley | On the Hall MagnetoHydroDynamics |
| February 27 | Emily Clader, San Francisco State University | The Moduli Space of Curves and its Tautological Ring |
| March 5 | Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research | Private AI: Machine Learning on Encrypted Data |
| March 12 (Canceled) | Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University | Geometric Measure Theory and the fine structure of harmonic measure |
| March 19 (Canceled) | Karl Rubin, UC Irvine | Some new conjectures about abelian points on elliptic curves |
| March 26 | Spring Break (no colloquium) | |
| April 2 | Bowen lecture (no colloquium) | |
| April 9 | Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington | |
| April 16 | Martin Olsson, UC Berkeley | |
| April 23 | Dimitar Jetchev, inpher and EPLF | |
| April 30 | Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics | |
| May 7 | Emily Riehl, Johns Hopkins University |