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 |
| April 22, 2013 | Larry Guth | The distinct distance problem in the plane |
| April 4, 2013 | M.S. Raghunathan | The Atiyah Singer Index theorem |
| March 21, 2013 | Gabriel Navarro | Main Problems in the Representation Theory of Finite Groups |
| January 17, 2013 | David Bressoud | Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus: Preliminary Findings |
| December 5, 2012 | Michel Brion | Structure of algebraic groups |
| November 29, 2012 | Jochen Bruening | Extensions of the Signature Theorem |
| November 15, 2012 | Guoliang Yu | Geometric complexity and topological rigidity |
| November 8, 2012 | Michael Rubinstein | The role of computation and experimentation in number theory |
| November 1, 2012 | Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace | Locally compact groups beyond Lie theory |
| October 18, 2012 | Béla Bollobás | Bootstrap Percolation: Extremal and Probabilistic Questions |
| October 11, 2012 | Charles Weibel | A negative answer to a question of Bass |
| October 4, 2012 | Vitali Milman | The Reasons Behind Some Classical Constructions in Analysis |
| September 27, 2012 | Tommaso de Fernex | The Nash problem on families of arcs |
| September 20, 2012 | Bogdan Boyarski | Lagrange interpolation, B-splines, maximal functions and Sobolev spaces (from J.Gregory and I.Newton to S.L.Sobolev) |
| September 6, 2012 | Dan Thompson | S-gap shifts: a testing ground for new techniques in ergodic theory |
| August 23, 2012 | Fanghua Lin | Analysis on Phase Transition Problems in Higher Dimensions |
| May 16, 2012 | Richard Lyons | Bicharacteristic finite groups. |
| May 9, 2012 | Alain Connes | Shapes and spectra |
| April 12, 2012 | Huai-Dong Cao | Geometry of gradient Ricci solitons |
| April 5, 2012 | Olga Holtz | Approximation theory meets algebra and combinatorics. |
| March 29, 2012 | Craig Evans | Calculus of Variations in the Sup-Norm |
| March 8, 2012 | David Morrison | Riemann surfaces, conformal blocks, and supersymmetric quantum field theories: from Physics conjecture to Mathematics theorem |
| February 13, 2012 | Edward Witten | Special Colloquium: Chern-Simons Theory From Four Dimensions |
| February 7, 2012 | Richard Kenyon | Limit shapes in two dimensional probability |
| January 12, 2012 | Shelly Goldstein | Quantum Ontology: An Introduction to Bohmian Mechanics |
| December 1, 2011 | Tom Salisbury | Random walks in degenerate random environments |
| November 28, 2011 | Stephen Smale | Geometry of Data and New Vaccines |
| November 10, 2011 | Avy Soffer | Nonlinear wave Equations and Solitons- the Hydrodynamic Paradigm |
| November 3, 2011 | Hillel Furstenberg | Boundaries of Non-Compact Groups and their Applications |
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