At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Fall 2002 Colloquium talks.
Fall 2002
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| September 5 | Michael Shub, IBM | Hyperbolicity in rich families of dynamical systems? |
| September 12 | Walter Craig, McMaster University and MSRI | Traveling water waves |
| September 19 | Thomas Kailath, Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford | Displacement structure: Theory and applications |
| September 26 | Alexander Holroyd, UCB | The bootstrap percolation cellular automaton |
| October 3 | Barry Simon, Caltech | The lost proof of Loewner's theorem |
| October 10 | Steven Boyd, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford | Semidefinite programming and applications |
| October 17 | Gaven Martin, University of Auckland | The governing PDEs of nonlinear elasticity and the Hilbert-Smith conjecture |
| October 22 | Sir Michael Atiyah, 10 Evans, Tuesday, 5-6 PM (Please note special place and time) | Projective planes, spheres and Severi varieties, Joint MSRI/UCB Colloquium |
| October 31 | Daniel J. Bernstein, University of Illinois at Chicago | Proving primality |
| November 7 | Craig Huneke, University of Kansas | Characteristic p methods in commutative algebra |
| November 14 | Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford | The structure of Poincare-Einstein metrics: from the fine scale to the large scale |
| November 21 | Alex Vladimirsky, Cornell | Going with the (Information) Flow: on fast numerical methods for boundary value problems |
| December 5 | Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah | Toric surfaces, Gromov-Witten invariants and tropical algebraic geometry |
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.
Maciej Zworski, Colloquium chair