The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 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
Fall 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Aug 30 | Nicolai Reshetikhin, UC Berkeley | Quantum field theory: are we there yet? |
| Sep 13 | Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland | Arnold diffusion via invariant cylinders and Mather variational method |
| Sept 20 | Katrin Wehrheim, MIT | Moduli spaces of pseudoholomorphic curves |
| Sept 27 | Jan Draisma, Eindhoven University of Technology | Finite up to symmetry |
| Oct 4 | John Bell, LBL | Between Kinetic Theory and Navier Stokes - Modeling Fluids at the Mesoscale |
| Oct 11 | Benedict Gross, Harvard University | Arithmetic invariant theory |
| Oct 18 | Ian Agol, UC Berkeley | The virtual Haken conjecture |
| Oct 25 | David Nadler, UC Berkeley | Traces and loops |
| Nov 1 | Ken Ono, Emory University | q-hypergeometric functions and quantum modular forms |
| Nov 8 | Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University | DNA unknotting and unlinking |
| Nov 15 | Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA | Free Monotone Transport |
| Nov 29 | Vivek Shende, MIT | Quantum invariants of plane curve singularities |
| Dec 6 | Lillian Pierce, University of Oxford | Bringing the Carleson operator out of Flatland |