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.
Vivek Shende, Colloquium Chair
Spring 2017
Date | Speaker | Title |
Jan 19 | Song Sun | Calabi-Yau metrics and algebraic singularities |
Jan 26 | Xinwen Zhu | Period maps, complex and p-adic |
Feb 2 | Sergiu Klainerman | The problem of stability (Chern Lectures) |
Feb 9 | Eric Zaslow | Fukaya Moduli |
Feb 16 | Avi Wigderson | Operator scaling - theory and applications |
Feb 23 | Michael Harris | Attaching Galois representations to automorphic forms, and vice versa - recent progress (Bowen Lectures) |
Mar 2 | Shou-wu Zhang | Faltings heights and derivatives of L-functions |
Mar 9 | Herbert Koch | Regularity and asymptotics of solutions to the porous medium equation (DiPerna Lectures) |
Mar 16 | Thomas Nikolaus | On topological cyclic homology |
Mar 23 | Bjorn Poonen | Heuristics for elliptic curves |
Mar 30 | ------------ | Spring Break |
Apr 6 | Ivan Corwin | A drunk walk in a drunk world |
Apr 13 | Jeremy Gray | Hermann Weyl’s Philosophy of Mathematics: What and Why |
Apr 20 | Peter Hintz | Stability of black holes |