The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm in Evans 60. 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 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February 8 | Arul Shankar, University of Toronto |
Ranks and 2-Selmer groups of elliptic curves |
| February 15 | Richard Bamler, University of California, Berkeley |
On the Multiplicity One Conjecture for Mean Curvature Flows of surfaces |
| February 22 | Aldo Conca, Università di Genova |
Coordinate sections of determinantal rings and associated graphs |
| February 29 | Olga Holtz, University of California, Berkeley |
Classical values and prehistory of the Riemann Zeta Function |
| March 7 | F. Alberto Grünbaum, University of California, Berkeley |
Higher order correlations: from X-ray crystallography to cosmology |
| March 14 | Lisa Goldberg, University of California, Berkeley |
Optimization, estimation and geometry |
| March 21 | Chaim Goodman-Strauss, National Museum of Mathematics |
Monotiling |
| March 28 | Spring Break (no colloquium) | |
| April 4 | Alexander Bobenko, Technische Universität Berlin |
The Bonnet problem: Is a surface characterized by its metric and curvatures? |
| April 11 | Walter van Suijlekom, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen |
Geometry emerging from spectra |
| April 18 | Eleanor Rieffel, NASA |
Quantum error correction, from its beginnings in stabilizer codes to a new family of Floquet codes |
| April 25 | No colloquium due to Tarski Lectures | |
| May 2 | Mohammed Abouzaid, Stanford University |
A new model for stable homotopy |