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.

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Colloquium List for the Autum 2010-Summer 2011 Year

Date	Speaker	Title
October 22, 2010	Gunther Uhlmann	Cloaking and Transformation Optics [0]
November 18, 2010	Henryk Iwaniec	The Illusory Primes [0]
December 2, 2010	Noam Elkies	How many points can a curve have? [0]
February 3, 2011	David Griffeath	A 3-D MESOSCOPIC SNOW CRYSTAL SIMULATOR [0]
February 17, 2011	Richard Weiss	Classification results in the theory of buildings [0]
February 24, 2011	Bjorn Sandstede	Turing bifurcations: past and present [0]
March 3, 2011	Alexander Its	Special Functions and Integrable Systems [0]
March 29, 2011	Michael Aschbacher	Fusion systems and simple groups [0]
March 31, 2011	Peter Li	WEIGHTED POINCARE INEQUALITY AND ITS GEOMETRIC IMPLICATIONS [0]
April 7, 2011	John Harer	Topology, Geometry and Statistics: Merging Methods for Data Analysis [0]
April 14, 2011	Eric Friedlander	Elementary modular representation theory [0]
April 21, 2011	Wei-Ming Ni	Diffusion and Directed Movements in Heterogeneous Environments [0]
April 28, 2011	Winnie Li	Zeta functions in combinatorics and number theory [0]
May 5, 2011	Alice Chang	Fully non-linear PDE in conformal geometry [0]
May 12, 2011	Robert Ghrist	Euler Calculus for Data [0]
May 26, 2011	Joel Spruck	Boundary value problems at infinity in Hyperbolic space [0]
July 14, 2011	Jacob Lurie	Tamagawa Numbers via Nonabelian Poincaré Duality [0]
November 3, 2011	Hillel Furstenberg	Boundaries of Non-Compact Groups and their Applications [0]
November 10, 2011	Avy Soffer	Nonlinear wave Equations and Solitons- the Hydrodynamic Paradigm [0]
November 28, 2011	Stephen Smale	Geometry of Data and New Vaccines [0]
December 1, 2011	Tom Salisbury	Random walks in degenerate random environments [0]
January 12, 2012	Shelly Goldstein	Quantum Ontology: An Introduction to Bohmian Mechanics [0]
February 7, 2012	Richard Kenyon	Limit shapes in two dimensional probability [0]
February 13, 2012	Edward Witten	Special Colloquium: Chern-Simons Theory From Four Dimensions [0]

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