At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Fall 2003 Colloquium talks.
Fall 2003
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| September 4 | Max Karoubi, Univ. of Paris | Bott periodicity in topological, algebraic and Hermitian K-theory |
| September 11 | David Revelle, Statistics Dept. at UCB | Some exotic behavior of random walks on wreath products |
| September 18 | Arthur Ogus, UCB | Calculus and Hodge Theory in characteristic p |
| September 25 | Tara Holm, UCB | A gentle introduction to (equivariant) Morse Theory |
| October 2 | Eric Rains, UC Davis | Bounds on self-dual codes and lattices |
| October 9 | Wilhelm Schlag, CALTECH | On Schroedinger cocycles and Lyapunov exponents |
| October 16 | David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas | Solitons, particles and noncommutative geometry |
| October 23 | Elena Mantovan, UCB | The role of the geometry of Shimura varieties in the Langlands' conjectures |
| October 30 | G. I. Barenblatt, UCB | Mathematical models of developed turbulent flows |
| November 13 | Vadim Kaloshin, MIT and Caltech | Growth of the number of periodic points of generic maps |
| November 20 | Jenny Harrison, UCB | Discrete exterior calculus with convergence to the smooth continuum |
| December 4 | Anatole Katok | New progress in measure rigidity of Abelian group actions and Littlewood Conjecture in diophantine approximation |
The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10pm in 60 Evans Hall. Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is cordially invited to attend.
Charles Pugh, Colloquium chair