At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 2003 Colloquium talks.
Spring 2003
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 23 | Reviel Netz, Classics, Stanford University | Archimedes: the madness of the method |
| January 30 | DiPerna memorial lecture: John Ball, Oxford University & Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | The regularity of minimizers in elasticity |
| February 6 | Matilde Marcolli, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn | From noncommutative to arithmetic geometry |
| February 13 | Ioana Dumitriu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Numerical linear algebra methods in random matrix theory |
| February 20 | Idun Reiten, NTNU (Trondheim), visiting MSRI | Dynkin diagrams |
| February 27 | Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota and MSRI | Combinatorial positivity by geometric degeneration |
| March 6 | Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University, visiting Stanford University | Non-conventional ergodic theorems, nilmanifolds, and the long term memory of dynamical systems |
| March 13 | Jesus De Loera, UC Davis | Lattice point counting in polyhedra: theory, applications, and software |
| March 20 | Kay Giesecke, Cornell University | Trends and compensation |
| March 27 | Spring Break! | |
| April 3 | Calvin Moore, UC Berkeley | History of the Berkeley Mathematics Department |
| April 10 | Andrea Goldsmith, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University | Water pouring, MUD, and dirty paper: the mathematics of wireless communications with multiple antennas |
| April 17 | James Yorke, University of Maryland | Learning about reality from observation |
| April 24 | Norbert Schappacher, Technische Universität Darmstadt | Kurt Heegner - an outsider in number theory |
| May 1 | Sandu Popescu, Bristol University, Hewlett Packard/MSRI Visiting Research Professor | Quantum non-locality |
| May 8 | Roger Howe, Yale University | Invariant theory and quantum computation |
The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10PM in 60 Evans Hall. Before the lecture, refreshments are served in 1015 Evans Hall (3:00pm-4:00pm). Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is cordially invited to attend.
Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr., Colloquium chair