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.
Kenneth Ribet, Colloquium Chair
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Aug 24 | Günter M. Ziegler, Freie Universität Berlin | Semi-algebraic sets of integer points |
| Aug 31 | John Rhodes, UC Berkeley | Boolean representations of simplicial complexes: beyond matroids |
| Sep 7 | State of the Department Address | |
| Sep 14 | Kevin Costello, Perimeter Institute | What is the AdS/CFT correspondence? |
| Sep 21 | Alex Wright, Stanford | Geometry, dynamics, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces |
| Sep 28 | Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley | Tensors and their Eigenvectors |
| Oct 5 | Caroline Klivans, Brown University | The Partitionability Conjecture |
| Oct 12 | Jesus De Loera, UC Davis | The first hundred years of Helly’s theorem |
| Oct 19 | Nima Arkani-Hamed, IAS | The Positive Geometry of Fundamental Physics, From Scattering Amplitudes to the Wavefunction of the Universe |
| Oct 26 | Alexander Postnikov, MIT | Chip firing, root systems, permutohedra, and Coxeter arrangements |
| Nov 2 | Keith Devlin, Stanford | When the precision of mathematics meets the messiness of the world of people (Serge Lang Lecture) |
| Nov 9 | Tomoko Kitagawa, UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society |
The Global Histories of Mathematics |
| Nov 16 | Semyon Dyatlov, MIT/UC Berkeley | What is quantum chaos? |
| Nov 23 | ------------ | Thanksgiving |
| Nov 30 | Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University | Algebraic Structures on Polytopes |