The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 pm 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, Colloquium Chair
Spring 2023
January 26 |
F. Alberto Grünbaum, University of California, Berkeley |
A. Einstein, J. Bell: some history, some math, some experimental work and some technological developments in the 21st century. An introduction. |
February 2 |
Peter Sarnak, IAS and Princeton University |
Spectra of locally uniform geometries. Prescribing the spectrum — Cubic graphs.
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February 9 |
Lisa Piccirillo, MIT |
Exotic phenomena in 4-dimensional topology |
February 16 |
Anna E. Weigandt, MIT |
Combinatorial Aspects of Determinantal Varieties |
February 23 |
Jennifer Balakrishnan, Boston University |
Mordell’s conjecture: one century later |
March 2 |
Lin Lin, University of California, Berkeley |
Quantum algorithms for eigenvalue problems |
March 9 |
Greta Panova, University of Southern California |
Computational Complexity in Algebraic Combinatorics |
March 16 |
Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University |
Holomorphic Floer Theory |
March 23 |
Chris Eur, Harvard University |
Geometry of Independence |
April 6 |
Maryanthe Malliaris, University of Chicago |
What can infinity tell us about the finite? |
April 13 |
Jacob Tsimerman, University of Toronto |
The André - Grothendieck Period conjecture over function fields |
April 20 |
Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University |
The 2022-23 Chern Lecture (Lecture 2 of 4): Flavors of convexity in complex geometry |
April 27 |
Amol Aggarwal, Columbia University and Clay Mathematics Institute |
Spectral Statistics of Lévy Matrices |