Spring 2021 Colloquium

The colloquium meets Thursdays from 4:10 to 5:00 pm virtually. 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. (Olga Holtz is the current Colloquium Chair.)

Spring 2021

DateSpeakerTitle
January 28 Elena Giorgi, Princeton University The stability of black holes with matter
February 4 Lei Chen, Caltech Actions of Homeo and Diffeo groups on manifolds
February 11 Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University The solution of Enflo’s problem
February 18 Matthew Kwan, Stanford University Ramsey graphs and anti-concentration
February 25 Martin Olsson, University of California-Berkeley Reconstruction of algebraic varieties
March 4 Volker Mehrmann, Technische Universität Berlin Regularity, stability and passivity distances for dynamical systems with port-Hamiltonian structure
March 11 Bowen lecture (no colloquium)  
March 18 Tatiana Toro, University of Washington How do Partial Differential Equations detect Geometry in Euclidean space?
March 25 Spring Break (no colloquium)  
April 1 Inwon Kim, University of California Los Angeles Dynamics of Congested Crowds and Incompressible Fluids
April 8 Konstantin Tikhomirov, Georgia Institute of Technology Singularity of random Bernoulli matrices
April 15 Alberto Grünbaum, University of California Berkeley Signal processing miracles and the Korteweg-de Vries equation
April 22 Claudia de Rham, University College London Analyticity in the Sky with (causal) Diamonds
April 29 Lillian Pierce, Duke University Counting problems: open questions in number theory, from the perspective of moments
May 6 Anna Erschler, École Normale Supérieure and Institute for Advanced Study Poisson boundary for random walks on groups