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 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Jan 17 | Alan Hammond, Oxford University | Self-avoiding walks, phase separation and KPZ universality |
| Jan 24 | Alan Newell, University of Arizona | Phyllotaxis as a pattern forming front |
| Jan 31 | Alberto Ibort, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid | There is plenty of room at the boundary |
| Feb 7 | Kristin Lauter, Microsoft | ML Confidential: Machine Learning on Encrypted Data |
| Feb 14 | Calvin C. Moore, UC Berkeley | Group Cohomology for Topological Groups |
| Feb 21 | Brendan Hassett, Rice University | Rational curves on symplectic varieties |
| Feb 28 | Sourav Chatterjee, Courant Institute and Stanford University | Invariant measures and the soliton resolution conjecture |
| Mar 7 | Ko Honda, USC | The equivalence of Heegaard Floer homology and embedded con- tact homology via open book decompositions |
| Mar 14 | Frank Sottile, Texas A & M | The future of computation in algebraic geometry |
| Mar 21 | Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University | Quantum mechanics, Eigenvalue problems and complex geometry |
| Mar 28 | no colloquium - spring break | |
| Apr 4 | Nicolas Burq, Orsay | Eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator and randomness: when H ̈ormander’s Weyl formula and Levy’s concentration of measure phenomenon meet |
| Apr 11 | Nigel Hitchin, Oxford University | |
| Apr 18 | Nigel Hitchin, Oxford University | |
| Apr 25 | Sarah Witherspoon Texas A & M | Varieties for modules |
| May 2 | Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study | Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and The Positive Grassmannian |
| May 9 | Goncalo Tabuada, MIT | Noncommutative motives |