Colloquium

Spring 2014 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.

Nicolai Reshetikhin, Colloquium Chair

Spring 2014 Date Speaker Title Jan 23 - at 3:10pm Jan 23 - at 4:10pm Jan 30 Bjorn Poonen, MIT Undecidability in number theory - (1st Colloquium is the Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture) Feb 6 Richard Bamler, Stanford University Long-time behavior of Ricci...

Fall 2015 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.

Jenny Harrison, Colloquium Chair

Fall 2015 Date Speaker Title Aug 27 Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, UC Berkeley A glimpse at bi-free probability Sep 3 State of the Department Address Sep 10 Kay Kirkpatrick, UIUC Bose-Einstein condensation: from many quantum particles to a quantum "superparticle" Sep...

Fall 2016 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 2016 Date Speaker Title Aug 25 David Fisher, Indiana University Subexponential growth, invariant measures and Zimmer's conjecture Sep 1 Ilijas Farah, York University, Canada Some necessary applications of logic to operator algebras Sep 8 State of the...

Spring 2020 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.

Ken Ribet, Colloquium Chair

Spring 2020 Date Speaker Title January 23 special MSRI-sponsored event with Jennifer Doudna in Sibley Auditorium How CRISPR genome editing technology is changing the future of humanity January 30 Dan Freed, University of Texas, Austin Two applications of topology to condensed matter physics February 6 Alex Smith,...

Fall 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.

Vivek Shende, Colloquium Chair

Fall 2018 Date Speaker Title Aug 30 Rachel Ward, UT Austin Stochastic Gradient Descent: Strong convergence guarantees – without parameter tuning Sep 6 ------------ State of the Department...

Fall 2019 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 2019 Date Speaker Title Sep 12 Mina Aganagic, UC Berkeley Quantum Geometric Representation Theory Sep 19 Dan Romik...

Fall 2020 Colloquium

The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 pm 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.

Ken Ribet, Colloquium Chair

Fall 2020 Date Speaker Title August 27 Tatyana Shcherbyna, Princeton University Random matrix theory and supersymmetry techniques September 3 no colloquium (State of the Department meeting) September 10 Jeremy Hahn, MIT Higher algebra in the classification of highly connected manifolds September 17 Corinna Ulcigrai,...

Fall 2021 Colloquium

The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 pm 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

Fall 2021 Date Speaker Title September 9 Jose A. Carrillo, University of Oxford Nonlocal Aggregation-Diffusion Equations: entropies, gradient flows, phase transitions and applications September 16 September 23 Alice Guionnet, École normale supérieure de Lyon Bernoulli Random Matrices September 30 Laura Rider, University...

Fall 2022 Colloquium

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 is the current Colloquium Chair.)

Fall 2022 Date Speaker Title September 8 Tadashi Tokieda,
Stanford University Applying physics to mathematics September 15 Levent Alpöge,
Harvard University Integers which are(n’t) the sum of two cubes September 22 Cris Negron,
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