The Colloquia of the Department of Mathematics are normally held on Thursdays at 4:30pm in MA 240, preceded by Tea at 3:30pm in the Math Tower Top Floor Lounge (MW724), and followed by a dinner.
Our Colloquium is intended to be a vehicle for invited speakers to communicate to the entire department significant new developments in their fields of research, in a manner accessible to a broad mathematical audience. Graduate students and visitors are particularly welcome.
For information on a particular lecture, click the relevant "Title".
List of speakers and Abstracts will be updated as soon as relevant information becomes available.
A faculty member wishing to propose a speaker should click here
| Date | Speaker | Title |
Colloquium List for the Autum 2010-Summer 2011 Year
| October 22, 2010 | Gunther Uhlmann | Cloaking and Transformation Optics |
| November 18, 2010 | Henryk Iwaniec | The Illusory Primes |
| December 2, 2010 | Noam Elkies | How many points can a curve have? |
| February 3, 2011 | David Griffeath | A 3-D MESOSCOPIC SNOW CRYSTAL SIMULATOR |
| February 17, 2011 | Richard Weiss | Classification results in the theory of buildings |
| February 24, 2011 | Bjorn Sandstede | Turing bifurcations: past and present |
| March 3, 2011 | Alexander Its | Special Functions and Integrable Systems |
| March 29, 2011 | Michael Aschbacher | Fusion systems and simple groups |
| March 31, 2011 | Peter Li | WEIGHTED POINCARE INEQUALITY AND ITS GEOMETRIC IMPLICATIONS |
| April 7, 2011 | John Harer | Topology, Geometry and Statistics: Merging Methods for Data Analysis |
| April 14, 2011 | Eric Friedlander | Elementary modular representation theory |
| April 21, 2011 | Wei-Ming Ni | Diffusion and Directed Movements in Heterogeneous Environments |
| April 28, 2011 | Winnie Li | Zeta functions in combinatorics and number theory |
| May 5, 2011 | Alice Chang | Fully non-linear PDE in conformal geometry |
| May 12, 2011 | Robert Ghrist | Euler Calculus for Data |
| May 26, 2011 | Joel Spruck | Boundary value problems at infinity in Hyperbolic space |
| July 14, 2011 | Jacob Lurie | Tamagawa Numbers via Nonabelian Poincaré Duality |
| November 3, 2011 | Hillel Furstenberg | Boundaries of Non-Compact Groups and their Applications |
| November 10, 2011 | Avy Soffer | Nonlinear wave Equations and Solitons- the Hydrodynamic Paradigm |
| November 28, 2011 | Stephen Smale | Geometry of Data and New Vaccines |
| December 1, 2011 | Tom Salisbury | Random walks in degenerate random environments |
| January 12, 2012 | Shelly Goldstein | Quantum Ontology: An Introduction to Bohmian Mechanics |
| February 7, 2012 | Richard Kenyon | Limit shapes in two dimensional probability |
| February 13, 2012 | Edward Witten | Special Colloquium: Chern-Simons Theory From Four Dimensions |
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