Colloquium

Spring 2017 Colloquium

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...

Fall 2017 Colloquium

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.

Kenneth Ribet, Colloquium Chair

Fall 2017 Date Speaker Title Aug 24 Günter M. Ziegler, Freie Universität Berlin Semi-algebraic sets of integer points Aug 31...

Spring 2018 Colloquium

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.

Lauren Williams, Colloquium Chair

Spring 2018 Date Speaker Title Jan 18 Jared Weinstein, Boston University Complex...

Fall 2007 Colloquium

Below are downloadable PDF files of the available announcements (including abstracts) of the Fall 2007 Colloquium talks.

Documents: September 6 Colloquium Announcement September 20 Colloquium Announcement...

Spring 1997 Colloquium

At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 1997 Colloquium talks.

Spring 1997 Date Speaker Title January 23 Cathleen Morawetz, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences DiPerna Lecture, "Transonic flow: two existence problems" January 30 Jiang-Hua Lu, University of Arizona Poisson geometry and the Schubert calculus February 6 Olga A. Ladyzhenskaya, Steklov Math Institute, St. Petersburg On solvability and attractors of the Navier-Stokes equations...

Spring 1999 Colloquium

At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 1999 Colloquium talks.

Spring 1999 Date Speaker Title January 21 Peter Sarnak, Princeton University Spectra of elements in some group rings January 28 Heinz-Otto Kreiss, UCLA DiPerna Lecture, The numerical solution of nonlinear time-dependent partial differential equations February 4 Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University Diffeomorphisms with robust statistical properties February 11 Allen Knutson...

Spring 1998 Colloquium

At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 1998 Colloquium talks.

Spring 1998 Date Speaker Title January 22 Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Corporation Birth of the Infinite Cluster: finite size scaling in percolation January 29 Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, U. C. Berkeley Free Probability Theory February 5 Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University Hyperbolic Conservation Laws February 12 José Felipe Voloch, University of Texas at Austin Cellular telephones...

Fall 1998 Colloquium

At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Fall 1998 Colloquium talks.

Fall 1998 Date Speaker Title September 3 Stephen Smale, City University of Hong Kong, visiting MSRI Mathematical problems for the next century: version 2 September 10 Kevin Buzzard, University of Cambridge Artin's conjecture on representations of Galois groups September 17 Rekha R. Thomas, Texas A&M University Algebraic methods in integer programming September 24 Tilla Weinstein,...

Fall 2001 Colloquium

At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Fall 2001 Colloquium talks.

Fall 2001 Date Speaker Title September 6 Alexandre Givental, UC Berkeley Quantum Riemann - Roch and Lefschetz September 13 Robert Bryant, Duke University Calibrations and rigidity September 20 Joyce McLaughlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New algorithms for ocean acoustics September 27 Michael E. Taylor, University of North Carolina Analysis on rough manifolds October 4...

Spring 2000 Colloquium

At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 2000 Colloquium talks.

Spring 2000 Date Speaker Title January 20 Ming Gu, UCLA Some new progress in matrix computations January 27 Eitan Tadmore, UCLA DiPerna Lecture: High Resolution, Negative Norms and the Convergence of Central Schemes February 3 Albert Schwartz, UC Davis Noncommutative geometry and duality in physics February 10 Peter W. Shor, AT&T Research A survey of quantum...