The colloquium meets Thursdays from 4:10 to 5:00 pm virtually. 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
Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 26 | F. Alberto Grünbaum, University of California, Berkeley |
A. Einstein, J. Bell: some history, some math, some experimental work and some technological developments in the 21st century. An introduction |
| February 2 | Peter Sarnak, IAS and Princeton University |
Spectra of locally uniform geometries. Prescribing the spectrum — Cubic graphs |
| February 9 | Lisa Piccirillo, MIT |
Exotic phenomena in 4-dimensional topology |
| February 16 | Anna E. Weigandt, MIT |
Combinatorial Aspects of Determinantal Varieties |
| February 23 | Jennifer Balakrishnan, Boston University |
Mordell’s conjecture: one century later |
| March 2 | Lin Lin, University of California, Berkeley |
Quantum algorithms for eigenvalue problems |
| March 9 | Greta Panova, University of Southern California |
Computational Complexity in Algebraic Combinatorics |
| March 16 | Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University |
Holomorphic Floer Theory |
| March 23 | Chris Eur, Harvard University |
Geometry of Independence |
| April 6 | Maryanthe Malliaris, University of Chicago |
What can infinity tell us about the finite? |
| April 13 | Jacob Tsimerman, University of Toronto |
The André - Grothendieck Period conjecture over function fields |
| April 20 | Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University |
The 2022-23 Chern Lecture (Lecture 2 of 4): Flavors of convexity in complex geometry |
| April 27 | Amol Aggarwal, Columbia University and Clay Mathematics Institute |
Spectral Statistics of Lévy Matrices |