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Mathematics Colloquium

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Unless otherwise indicated, the Colloquium is held from 4:00-5:00 pm on Tuesdays. (i.e. it starts 4:10 pm) Cookies, tea, and coffee are served in the Common room at 3:45-4:00 before the Colloquium.

Date Speaker Title Tuesday, September 10, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Melissa Liu University of Columbia TBA Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Pascale Garaud University of California Santa Cruz TBA Tuesday, September 24, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Tom Church Stanford University TBA Tuesday, October 01, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Elizabeth Bradley University of Colorado at Boulder TBA Tuesday, October 08, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Gavin Martin Massey University TBA Thursday, October 31, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Walter Neumann Columbia University TBA   Past Colloquiums Date Speaker Title Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Andreas Blass Univ of Michigan The Continuum Hypothesis and Its Enemies Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Start: 3:10 PM Richard Thomas Imperial College Algebraic geometry Spring lectures: The Gottsche conjecture Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Start: 4:30 PM Stephen Smale Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Mathematics of Protein Folding Tuesday, April 09, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Igor Dolgachev University of Michigan Algebra, geometry and topology of Cremona groups Tuesday, April 02, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Max Glick Univ of Michigan Sumner Myers colloquium: The pentagram map and Y-patterns Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Domingo Toledo University of Utah Geometry of Period Domains Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM David Fisher Indiana University Quasi-isometric rigidity of polycyclic groups Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Mike Hopkins Harvard University Ziwet Lectures: Lecture I: The Kervaire invariant problem Tuesday, March 05, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Winter Break TBA Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Guillaume Bal Columbia University Equations with random coefficients and theories of random fluctuations. Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Joe Silverman Brown University The dynamical complexity of rational maps and an arithmetic analogue Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Ilya Kapovich University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (cancelled due to medical reason). Tuesday, February 05, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Joel Smoller Univ of Michigan Gravitation Tuesday, January 29, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Jean-francois Lafont Ohio State University Isomorphism conjectures in K-theory Wednesday, January 23, 2013 Start: 3:10 PM Sarah Koch Harvard University An algebraic fingerprint for postcritically finite rational maps Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Richard Tapia Rice University The Isoperimetric Problem Revisited: Extracting a Short Proof of Sufficiency from Euler's 1744 Proof of Necessity Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Start: 4:10 PM Horng-Tzer  Yau Harvard University Ziwet Lectures: Universality of random matrices and log-gases Tuesday, December 11, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Carlos Kenig Univ of Chicago The energy critical nonlinear wave equation in 3d. Tuesday, December 04, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Jean-Luc Thiffeault The University of Wisconsin Topological approaches to problems of stirring and mixing Tuesday, November 27, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Christopher Sogge Johns Hopkins University The Weyl law and bounds for the forced membrane problem Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Mircea Mustata Univ of Michigan Singularities: characteristic zero versus positive characteristic Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Aaron Naber MIT The Geometry of Ricci Curvature Tuesday, November 06, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Election Day Election Day! Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Yuval Peres Microsoft Research Redmond Hunter, Cauchy Rabbit, and Optimal Kakeya Sets Tuesday, October 23, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Sai-Kee Yeung Purdue University On complex hyperbolicity of moduli spaces of canonically polarized algebraic manifolds Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Fall Break Fall Break Tuesday, October 09, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Adam Koranyi CUNY, Graduate Center, and Lehman College Homogeneous operators: a class of Hilbert space operators relarted to representation theory and holomorphy Tuesday, October 02, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Jason Kutch USC Rackham Centennial Lecture: Is math the cause of or cure for chronic pain?: New approaches to the perplexing problem of pain Tuesday, September 25, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Hee Oh Brown University Apollonian packings, Fractal geometry and Dynamics on hyperbolic manifolds Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Felix Otto Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig Ziwet Lectures: Pattern formation and partial differential equations Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Barry Simon Caltech Natural boundaries and spectral theory Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Ted Chinburg Univ of Penn Small generators for S-arithmetic groups Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Mark Sapir Vanderbilt University Monster groups and manifolds Tuesday, April 03, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Bjorn  Poonen MIT Algebraic Geometry Spring Lectures: Undecidability in number theory and algebraic geometry Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Start: 3:10 PM Matt Elsey Courant Institute, NYU Algorithms for Multiphase Motion with Applications to Materials Science (Sumner Myers Award) Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Emmanuel Candes Stanford University Ziwet Lecture I: From compressive sensing to super-resolution Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Stanislaw Szarek Case Western University Dvoretzky's theorem and additivity conjectures in quantum information theory Tuesday, March 13, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Harold Donnelly Purdue University Curvature and the Spectrum of the Laplacian Tuesday, March 06, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Sebastien Roch UCLA Phase Transitions in Molecular Evolution: Relating Combinatorial and Variational Distances on Trees Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Start: 4:00 PM Winter Break Winter Break Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Bryna Kra Northwestern Univ Combinatorial ergodic theory Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Igor Krichever Columbia University Real-normalized differentials and geometry of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces Tuesday, February 07, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Kevin Costello Northwestern University Algebraic structures in perturbative quantum field theory Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Bob Moses activist, educator (U.S. Algebra project) Constitutional Democracy and the Teaching and Learning of School Mathematics in the Information age Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Thomas Lam U of M Electrical networks and Lie theory Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Vladimir Markovic CalTech Virtual geometry of Riemann surfaces and 3-manifolds Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Start: 4:10 PM Mike Davis Ohio State University Random right-angled Coxeter groups are rational duality groups Tuesday, December 06, 2011 Start: 4:10 PM Peter Olver Univ of Minnesota Moving Frames in Applications Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Start: 4:10 PM Ioannis  Karatzas Columbia University Stable Diffusions Interacting through Their Ranks, as Models of Large Equity Markets Tuesday, November 01, 2011 Start: 4:00 PM Catherine  Kublik Univ of Teaxs Baldwin Prize Award Colloquium: Topics in PDE based image processing Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Start: 4:10 PM Tien-Yien Li Michigan State Univ Solving polynomial systems by the homotopy continuation method Monday, October 24, 2011 Start: 3:10 PM Liliana Borcea Rice University Detection and imaging with waves in strongly backscattering random media Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Fall break Fall Break Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Start: 4:10 PM Roman Vershynin U of Michigan Random matrices: invertibility, structure, and applications Tuesday, October 04, 2011 Start: 4:10 PM Linda Keen CUNY, Graduate Center, and Lehman College Bounded geometry and Thurston's theorem for a class of meromorphic functions. Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Start: 4:10 PM Kenji  Fukaya Kyoto University Geometry/Topology RTG Lecture: Toward a proof of homological Mirror symmetry Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Start: 4:10 PM Andrei Rapinchuk University of Virginia On Division Algebras Having the Same Maximal Subfields Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Start: 4:00 PM John Schotland Univ of Michigan Inverse problems and optical imaging Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Giovanni Forni Univ of Maryland Quantitative equidistributions of nilflows and Weyl sums Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Ian Leary Ohio State University Fixed point theorems and examples Tuesday, April 05, 2011 Nolan Wallach USCD Gelfand Kirillov dimension of representations Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Alan Reid Univ of Texas, Austin Distinguishing residually finite groups by their finite quotients Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Start: 3:10 AM Daniel Huybrechts Univ of Bonn Algebraic geometry of K3 surfaces via derived categories (Special time, 3:10-4) Tuesday, March 15, 2011 SRS Varadhan Courant Institute Large Deviations Tuesday, March 08, 2011 Nick Trefethen University of Oxford Ziwet lectures I: Approximation by rational functions Tuesday, March 01, 2011 Winter Break Winter Break Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Mike Hill University of Virginia On the non-existence of Kervaire Invariant One Manifolds Tuesday, February 15, 2011 David Morrison UCSB Noncommutative algebras and (commutative) algebraic geometry Tuesday, February 08, 2011 Steve Zelditch Northwestern Univ Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian, ergodicity and complex geometry of nodal sets Tuesday, February 01, 2011 Ales Pultr Prague Frames and locales: topology without points Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Misha Kapovich UC Davis Lie theory for noncrystallographic dihedral groups Monday, January 17, 2011 Ivelisse Rubio University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Dr. Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium: The Situation of Women and Minorities in Mathematics: A Civil Rights Issue Tuesday, January 11, 2011 Igor Kriz University of Michigan Homotopy and Reality Tuesday, December 07, 2010 Bernie Shiffman Johns Hopkins Univ Zeros of random functions on complex manifolds Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Demetrios Christodoulou ETH, Zürich Acoustical Geometry and Shock Formation Tuesday, November 09, 2010 Keith Julien University of Colorado at Boulder Convective flows under strong rotational constraints Tuesday, November 02, 2010 Jeremy Quastel University of Toronto Random growth and directed polymers Tuesday, November 02, 2010 Start: 3:10 PM Hugh Woodin UC Berkeley Ziwet Lecture I: The search for Ultimate L (II, III Wednesday and Thursday at 4PM). Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Tom Hou CalTech On Dynamic Stability and Non-blowup of 3D Incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Fall Break Fall Break Tuesday, October 12, 2010 Rick Jardine The University of Western Ontario Path categories and calculations Tuesday, October 12, 2010 Start: 1:10 AM Davesh Maulik Clay Fellow Enumerative geometry of K3 surfaces Tuesday, October 05, 2010 L. Mahadevan Harvard University Geometrical singularities and singular geometries: some problems and prospects Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Nessim Sibony Université Paris-Sud Analysis on laminations by Riemann Surfaces Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Evelyn  Sander George Mason University The Dynamics of Nucleation in Stochastic Cahn-Morral Systems Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Eric Bedford Indiana University Dynamics of rational surface automorphisms Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Laszlo Lempert Puedue Univ Analytic cohomology in infinite dimensional spaces Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Richard Thomas Imperial College London Khovanov homology from surface singularities Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Mladen Bestvina Univ of Utah Asymptotic dimension Wednesday, April 07, 2010 Start: 4:10 PM Mikhail Lyubich SUNY Stonybrook Lee-Yang zeros and Enumerative Dynamics Tuesday, April 06, 2010 Start: 4:00 PM Bill Fulton Univ of Michigan Distinguished University Professorship Lecture, at Rackham Buliding Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Paul Johnson Imperial College Sumner Myers Colloquium : Counting maps between complex curves Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Louis Nirenberg NYU, Courant Institute On singular solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Alan Stapledon UBC Sumner Myers talk : Weighted Ehrhart theory and orbifold cohomology Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Start: 3:10 PM Mark Levine Northesatern Univ Motivic homotopy theory: foundations, applications and perspectives Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Terence Tao UCLA Rainich lectures Tuesday, March 09, 2010 Xiuxiong Chen Univ of Wisconsin Space of Kahler potentials Tuesday, March 02, 2010 Winter Break Winter Break Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Reyer Sjamaar Cornell University Induction of representations and Poincar\'e duality Thursday, February 18, 2010 Sebastian Jaimungal University of Toronto Commodity Models, Derivatives and Real Options Tuesday, February 16, 2010 Sheldon Katz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Modern Moduli Invariants and Physics Tuesday, February 02, 2010 Vitaly Bergelson Ohio State University Ergodic Theory, Polynomials and Combinatorial Number Theory Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Start: 3:10 PM David Harbater Univ of Penn Patching in algebra Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Chris Skinner Princeton Univ Modular forms and special values of L-functions (Ziwet Lectures I, II, III) Tuesday, January 19, 2010 Chuck Weibel Rutgers University The Norm Residue Theorem in cohomology Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Daniel Forger Univ of Michigan The Mathematics of Biological Time Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Wee Teck Gan UCSD The local Langlands correspondence Tuesday, December 08, 2009 Blaine Lawson SUNY Stonybrook THE DIRICHLET PROBLEM FOR FULLY NONLINEAR EQUATIONS ON RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS Tuesday, December 01, 2009 Craig Evans UC Berkeley Hidden convex structures for nonlinear PDE Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Spencer Bloch Univ of Chicago "Richard and Me": an algebraic geometer pursuing Feynman graphs and amplitudes Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Steven Krantz Washington University in St. Louis ANALYSIS ON THE WORM Tuesday, November 03, 2009 Kenneth Bromberg Univ of Utah The topology of deformation spaces of Kleinian groups Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Start: 3:10 PM Sun-Yung Alice Chang Princeton University Q-curvature in Conformal Geometry Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Cedric Villani École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Ziwet Lectures Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Fall Break (No Talk) Fall Break Tuesday, October 13, 2009 William Goldman Univ of Maryland Complete affine 3-manifolds and hyperbolic structures on surfaces Tuesday, October 06, 2009 Ron Solomon Ohio State Univ Simple 2-Fusion Systems Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Matthew Gursky Univ of Notre Dame Some recent applications of fully nonlinear equations to geometry Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Leslie Smith Univ of Wisconsin New PDE Reduced Models for Geophysical Flows Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Jeffrey Lagarias Univ of Michigan Smooth solutions to the ABC Equation Thursday, May 07, 2009 Start: 11:10 AM Cliff Taubes Harvard Univsersity What we know and don't know about 4-dimensions (Note the special day and time) Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Shouwu Zhang Columbia University Geometry and arithmetic of Gross--Schoen cycles Monday, April 27, 2009 Jonathan Rosenberg Univ of Maryland Geometric analysis on the noncommutative torus Thursday, April 16, 2009 Benson Farb Univ of Chicago Surface bundles over surfaces Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Bill Minicozzi Johns Hopkins University The rate of change of width under flows Tuesday, April 07, 2009 Claude LeBrun SUNY Stony Brook Einstein Metrics, Complex Surfaces, and Symplectic 4-Manifolds Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Xiaobo Liu Univ of Notre Dame Universal equations for Gromov-Witten invariants Monday, March 30, 2009 Start: 3:10 PM Peter Lax Courant Institute DEGENERATE MATRICES Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Carolyn Gordon Dartmouth College When you can't hear the shape of a manifold Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Susan Sierra University of Washington Sumner Myers Prize lecture: The geometry of (some) noncommutative surfaces Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Guido Mislin Ohio State University Bounded Cohomology Tuesday, March 03, 2009 Matilde Marcolli California Institute of Technology Noncommutative geometry and the field with one element Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Winter Break Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Les Saper Duke University Cohomology of Locally Symmetric Spaces Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Jason Starr SUNY Stony Brook University Rational simple connectedness and Serre's "Conjecture II", Keeler Lectures Tuesday, February 03, 2009 Joel Smoller Univ of Michigan A One Parameter Family of Expanding Wave Solutions of the Einstein Equations That Induces an Anomalous Acceleration Into the Standard Model of Cosmology Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Andreas Blass Univ of Michigan Uncountable abelian groups that want to be free Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Michael Zieve IAS, Princeton Polynomial mappings Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Michael Weinstein Columbia University Linear and Nonlinear Resonance Tuesday, December 09, 2008 Steffen Rohde University of Washington From DLA to SLE (and back?) Tuesday, December 02, 2008 Boris Khesin University of Toronto Holomorphic linking number and gauge theory Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Ioannis Karatzas University of Columbia Ziwet Lectures: Some Stochastic Control Problems in Mathematical Finance Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Benson Farb University of Chicago (Cancelled) Tuesday, November 04, 2008 Kartik Prasanna University of Maryland The arithmetic of special values of L-functions Thursday, October 30, 2008 Rahul Pandharipande Princeton University Algebraic Cobordism Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Mark Rudelson University of Missouri Invertibility of random matrices Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Fall Study Break Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Brendan Hassett Rice University Approximation results for varieties of low degree Tuesday, October 07, 2008 Zoltan Szabo Princeton University Heegaard Floer homology for three-manifolds. Tuesday, October 07, 2008 Start: 1:10 PM János Kollár Princeton University Cremona transformations and homeomorphisms of topological surfaces (special room, 2866EH) Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Michael Thaddeus Columbia University The Nash blow-up of a toric variety Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Richard Hain Duke University Elliptic curves and Multiple zeta numbers Friday, September 19, 2008 Peter Ebenfelt UCSD Rigidity for holomorphic mappings of real hypersurfaces into hyperquadrics Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Michael Anderson SUNY Stony Brook Surgery constructions of Einstein metrics Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Karsten Grove Notre Dame University Positive curvature: Past and Present Tuesday, April 08, 2008 Sorin Popa UCLA Some Recent Results in W' Rigidity Tuesday, April 01, 2008 TBA University of Washington TBA Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Randy LeVeque University of Washington High-Resolution Finite Volume Methods and Applications to Tsunami Modeling Friday, March 21, 2008 Start: 3:00 PM Bryden Cais Sumner Meyers Prize Lecture From differential forms to Galois representations (and back again): a survey of Serre's conjecture Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Dusa McDuff SUNY Stony Brook Gromov--Witten invariants and Hamiltonian dynamics Tuesday, March 04, 2008 Ravi Vakil Stanford University Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved moduli spaces Thursday, February 07, 2008 Curtis T. McMullen Harvard University Ziwet Lectures Wednesday, February 06, 2008 Curtis T. McMullen Harvard University Ziwet Lectures Tuesday, February 05, 2008 Curtis T. McMullen Harvard University Ziwet Lectures Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Joe Harris Harvard University Uniformity of rational points on curves Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Ingrid Daubechies Princeton University Multiscale Analysis of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings Thursday, January 17, 2008 Gang Tian Princeton University Rainnich Lecture - Geometric analysis of low dimensional manifolds Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Gang Tian Princeton University Rainnich Lecture - Geometric analysis of low dimensional manifolds Tuesday, January 15, 2008 Gang Tian Princeton University Rainnich Lecture - Geometric analysis of low dimensional manifolds Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Jeff Cheeger Courant Institute TBA Wednesday, December 05, 2007 Mac Hyman Los Alamos National Lab TBA Tuesday, December 04, 2007 Tom Mrowka MIT Reflections on homological invariants for knots Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Victor Guillemin MIT Classical and quantum Birkhoff canonical forms in one dimension Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Blake Temple UC Davis A Mechanism for the Propagation of Nonlinear Time-Periodic Sound Waves Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Fanghua Lin Courant Institute TBA Tuesday, November 06, 2007 John Roe Penn State University Large scale index theory Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Keith Ball UM The Second Law of Probability Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Helmut Hofer Courant Institute Polyfolds and a Generalized Fredholm Theory Tuesday, October 09, 2007 Vaughn Jones UC Berkeley Two faces of planar algebras Tuesday, October 02, 2007 Weinan E. Princeton University Theory of solids: from electronic to continuum scales Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Sam Payne Stanford Sumner B. Myers Prize Colloquium Toric Vector Bundles Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Yves Benoist Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Rational points on symmetric varieties Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Marina Ratner UC Berkeley The theory of Unipotent Flows on homogeneous spaces of Lie groups with emphasis on applications Tuesday, February 13, 2007 Yann Bernard Sumner B. Myers Prize Colloquium- The coupling of gravity to Yang-Mills fields and fermions in static spherically symmetric spacetimes Tuesday, February 06, 2007 Ronald Fintushel Michigan State University Surgery on nullhomologous tori and small 4-manifolds Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Alejandro Adem UBC Commuting n-tuples and Spaces of Homomorphisms Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Davesh Maulik Princeton Gromov-Witten theory and Donaldson-Thomas theory Tuesday, January 23, 2007 Steve Ferry Rutgers University Controlled Topology and its Applications Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Yongbin Ruan UM Search the quantum symmetry in topology Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Phillip Griffiths IAS Algebraic Cycles and Singularities of Normal Functions Tuesday, December 05, 2006 Alexander Beilinson Chicago Topological epsilon-factors Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Rick Schoen Stanford The Yamabe Problem: An Interaction between Geometry and Relativity Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Peter Winkler Dartmouth Submodular Percolation Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Shmuel Weinberger University of Chicago On positive dimensional symmetry Tuesday, November 07, 2006 David Mumford Brown University The geometry of the space of simple closed plane curves Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Philip Holmes Princeton From Neural Oscillators through Stochastic Dynamics to Optimal Decisions, or Does Math Matter to Gray Matter? Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Jang-Mei Wu University of Illinois Harmonic Measure -- An Excursion Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Start: 4:00 AM Stephen Smale Toyota Technological Institute Reconstruction of submanifolds of euclidean space from random data Tuesday, October 03, 2006 Shing-Tung Yau Harvard Canonical metrics on complex manifolds Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Andrea Bertozzi UCLA Swarming by Nature and by Design Tuesday, September 19, 2006 Jerry Marsden Cal Tech Invariant Manifolds and Coherent Structures Tuesday, September 12, 2006 I. M. Singer MIT Index Theory, Now and Then Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Henri Darmon McGill University Algebraic Points on Elliptic Curves Thursday, April 13, 2006 Paul Biran Tel Aviv University Algebraic Families and Lagrangian Cycles Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Fritz Gesztesy University of Missouri-Columbia Applications of Modified Fredholm Determinants Tuesday, April 04, 2006 Calin Chindris University of Minnesota The cone of effective weights for quivers and Horn type problems Wednesday, March 29, 2006 Yuval Peres UC Berkeley-Statistics Point Processes, Repulsion, and Fair Allocation Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Barbara Lee Keyfitz Fields Institute/University of Houston Why are Multidimensional Conservation Laws so Difficult? Friday, March 24, 2006 Justin Moore Boise State University The L-Space Problem Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Noam Elkies Harvard Recent Progress in Sphere Packing Tuesday, March 14, 2006 Henry Cohn Microsoft Representation Theory and Fast Matrix Multiplication Monday, March 13, 2006 Dorothy Buck Imperial College, London The Topology of DNA-Protein Interactions Tuesday, March 07, 2006 Ben Green University of Bristol/Clay Math Institute Generalizing the Hardy-Littlewood Method for Primes Tuesday, February 21, 2006 Tom Hales University of Pittsburgh Formal Proofs, the Four Color Theorem, and the Kepler Conjecture for Sphere Packings Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Jonathan Wahl University of North Carolina Topology and Equations of Complex Surface Singularities Tuesday, February 07, 2006 Percy Deift Courant Institute-NYU Universality for Mathematical and Physical Systems Tuesday, January 31, 2006 Rene Schoof Universita di Roma Class Numbers of Cyclotomic Fields Tuesday, January 24, 2006 Mario Bonk UM Quasiconformal Geometry of Fractals Thursday, January 19, 2006 Alexander Barvinok UM Integer Points and Rational Functions Monday, January 16, 2006 Philip Kutzko University of Iowa The Arc of the Moral Universe Tuesday, January 10, 2006 Lehrstuhl Mathematik VII Universität Bayreuth Chebysheff and Belyi Polynomials, Dessins d enfants, Beauville Surfaces and Group Theory

 

John McCarthy (Washington University) has written a nice article describing how to give a good colloquium (Canad. Math. Soc. Notes vol 35 no. 3-4, Sept. 1999). We also have a local guide which contains useful information about our colloquium and environs. Finally, we have a detailed set of instructions for hosting.   Back to UM Math seminars page.