Colloquium

Spring 2016 Colloquium

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.

Maciej Zworski, Colloquium Chair

Spring 2016 Date Speaker Title Jan 21 Ana Caraiani, Princeton University Locally symmetric spaces and torsion classes Jan 28 Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland Stochastic...

Spring 2017 Colloquium

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.

Vivek Shende, Colloquium Chair

Spring 2017 Date Speaker Title Jan 19 Song Sun Calabi-Yau metrics and algebraic singularities Jan 26 Xinwen Zhu Period maps, complex and p-adic Feb 2...

Fall 2017 Colloquium

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...

Spring 2018 Colloquium

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.

Lauren Williams, Colloquium Chair

Spring 2018 Date Speaker Title Jan 18 Jared Weinstein, Boston University Complex...

Fall 2007 Colloquium

Below are downloadable PDF files of the available announcements (including abstracts) of the Fall 2007 Colloquium talks.

Documents: September 6 Colloquium Announcement September 20 Colloquium Announcement...

Fall 1998 Colloquium

At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Fall 1998 Colloquium talks.

Fall 1998 Date Speaker Title September 3 Stephen Smale, City University of Hong Kong, visiting MSRI Mathematical problems for the next century: version 2 September 10 Kevin Buzzard, University of Cambridge Artin's conjecture on representations of Galois groups September 17 Rekha R. Thomas, Texas A&M University Algebraic methods in integer programming September 24 Tilla Weinstein,...

Spring 1997 Colloquium

At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 1997 Colloquium talks.

Spring 1997 Date Speaker Title January 23 Cathleen Morawetz, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences DiPerna Lecture, "Transonic flow: two existence problems" January 30 Jiang-Hua Lu, University of Arizona Poisson geometry and the Schubert calculus February 6 Olga A. Ladyzhenskaya, Steklov Math Institute, St. Petersburg On solvability and attractors of the Navier-Stokes equations...

Spring 1999 Colloquium

At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 1999 Colloquium talks.

Spring 1999 Date Speaker Title January 21 Peter Sarnak, Princeton University Spectra of elements in some group rings January 28 Heinz-Otto Kreiss, UCLA DiPerna Lecture, The numerical solution of nonlinear time-dependent partial differential equations February 4 Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University Diffeomorphisms with robust statistical properties February 11 Allen Knutson...

Spring 1998 Colloquium

At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 1998 Colloquium talks.

Spring 1998 Date Speaker Title January 22 Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Corporation Birth of the Infinite Cluster: finite size scaling in percolation January 29 Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, U. C. Berkeley Free Probability Theory February 5 Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University Hyperbolic Conservation Laws February 12 José Felipe Voloch, University of Texas at Austin Cellular telephones...

Fall 1999 Colloquium

At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Fall 1999 Colloquium talks.

Fall 1999 Date Speaker Title September 2 Richard E. Borcherds, UCB Modular forms with singularities September 9 Michel Broué, Université de Paris VII Speculations about spetses September 16 Chern lecturer: Yuri Manin, Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn Counting rational points and rational curves: from Waring's problem to quantum cohomology September 23 Susan Montgomery...