Colloquium

Spring 2007 Colloquium

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

Documents: January 18 Colloquium Announcement February 1 Colloquium Announcement ...

Fall 2008 Colloquium

Below are downloadable PDF files of the available announcements (including abstracts) of the Fall 2008 Colloquium talks.

Documents: September 11 Colloquium Announcement September 18 Colloquium Announcement...

Fall 2006 Colloquium

Below are downloadable PDF files of the available announcements (including abstracts) of the Fall 2006 Colloquium talks.

Documents: September 7 Colloquium Announcement September 21 Colloquium Announcement...

Fall 2010 Colloquium

Fall 2010 Date Speaker Title September 3, 3:10-4 pm, 740 Evans Alberto S. Cattaneo, ETH Zurich Classical and perturbative topological field theories with boundary September 16 Edward Frenkel, UC Berkeley Geometrization of trace formulas September 23 Wieslawa Niziol, University of Utah Periods of p-adic differential forms September 30 Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington and MSRI Cloaking and transformation optics October 7 David Nadler, Northwestern University A trinity of quantizations...

Spring 2011 Colloquium

Spring 2011 Date Speaker Title January 20 Rachel Ward, Courant Institute, New York University Fast dimensionality reduction: improved bounds and implications for compressed sensing/td> January 27 Vladimir Rokhlin, Yale University A randomized approximate nearest neighbors algorithm February 3 Bjorn Poonen, MIT x2 + y3 = z7 February 10, 159 Mulford Hall Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University String theory and the geometry of the universe's hidden dimensions (Expository lecture) February 17 John Ball, ...

Spring 2009 Colloquium

Below are downloadable PDF files of the available announcements (including abstracts) of the Spring 2009 Colloquium talks.

Documents: January 22 Colloquium Announcement January 29 Colloquium Announcement...

Fall 2011 Colloquium

The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 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.

Olga Holtz, Colloquium Chair

Fall 2011 Date Speaker Title Sep. 1 Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley Symplectic and Quantum Categories Sep. 8 Peter Scholze, Universität Bonn Perfectoid Spaces Sep. 15 Per-Olof Persson, UC Berkeley High-Order Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws Sep. 22 Pierre Colmez,...

Fall 2012 Colloquium

The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 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

Fall 2012 Date Speaker Title Aug 30 Nicolai Reshetikhin, UC Berkeley Quantum field theory: are we there yet? Sep 13 Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland Arnold diffusion via invariant cylinders and Mather variational method Sept 20 Katrin Wehrheim, MIT Moduli spaces...

Fall 2013 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.

Olga Holtz, Colloquium Chair

Fall 2013 Date Speaker Title Aug 29 Tomaso Poggio, MIT The Computational Magic of the Ventral Stream: Sketch of a Theory Sept 12 Yitang Zhang, University of New Hampshire Recent Developments on the distribution of primes in arithmetic progressions Sept 26 Andrea...

Spring 2013 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.

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...