Departmental Colloquium - Spring 2014
Usually meets Friday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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January 15
|
Jeffrey Danciger
University of Texas, Austin |
Moduli spaces of constant curvature spacetimes |
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January 17
|
Antonio C. Auffinger
University of Chicago |
Recent Advances in First Passage Percolation. |
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January 24
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January 31
|
Ben Weinkove
Northwestern |
Geometric flows on complex surfaces |
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February 3
|
Karin Melnick
University of Maryland |
Normal forms for local flows on parabolic geometries |
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February 7
|
Isaac Goldbring
UIC |
Existentially closed C* algebras and a conjecture of Kirchberg |
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February 14
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February 17
|
Daniel Fiorilli
University of Michigan |
Nuclear physics and number theory |
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February 20
|
Benjamin Antieau
University of Washington |
Division algebras and and classifying spaces of complex algebraic groups |
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February 21
(3:00 pm; LC C6)
|
Brendan Hassett
Rice University |
Projective embeddings of holomorphic symplectic manifolds |
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February 28
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March 7
(3:00 pm; LC D5)
|
Michael Hopkins
Harvard University |
Distinguished Lecture Series |
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March 14
|
Ramin Takloo-Bighash
UIC |
Algebraic varieties with many rational points |
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March 21
|
Rakesh Vohra
University of Pennsylvania |
Predicting The Unpredictable |
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March 28
|
No seminar
|
Spring Break |
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April 4
|
Matthew Foreman
UC Irvine |
Classifying Diffeomorphisms of the Torus |
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April 11
|
Jeff Brock
Brown University |
Entomology and morphology in hyperbolic geometry |
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April 18
|
Douglas Arnold
University of Minnesota |
Finite element exterior calculus: where scientific computing meets algebraic topology |
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April 25
|
Mircea Mustata
University of Michigan |
Combinatorics and topology of toric maps |
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May 2
(3:00 pm; LC C4)
|
Showu Zhang
Princeton University |
Atkin Memorial Lecture: The congruent number problem and L-functions |