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.
Olga Holtz, Colloquium Chair
Fall 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Aug 25 | David Fisher, Indiana University | Subexponential growth, invariant measures and Zimmer's conjecture |
| Sep 1 | Ilijas Farah, York University, Canada | Some necessary applications of logic to operator algebras |
| Sep 8 | State of the Department Address | |
| Sep 15 | Joseph Wolf, University of California-Berkeley | Geometry and Analysis on Nilpotent Lie Groups |
| Sep 22 | Ravi Vakil, Stanford University | The Mathematics of Doodling (Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture) |
| Oct 6 | Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Dynamics and polynomial invariants of free-by-cyclic groups |
| Oct 13 | Karen Vogtmann, University of Warwick | Cycles in spaces of graphs |
| Oct 21 | Purnaprajna Bangere, David Balakrishnan, Turtle Island String Quartet | A Meta-Mathematical Framework for Integrating Indian Classical and Western Music |
| Nov 3 | Nikita Nekrasov, SUNY Stony Brook | The magnificent Four |
| Nov 10 | Dan Margalit, Georgia Tech | Algebraic, geometric, and dynamical aspects of surfaces |
| Nov 17 | Shamgar Gurevich, University of Wisconsin-Madison | “Small" Representations of Finite Classical Groups |
| Nov 24 | Thanksgiving | |
| Dec 1 | Alberto Grünbaum, University of California-Berkeley | Classical and quantum walks: a tour through parts of mathematics |