Department Colloquium
Fall 2004 lectures
Regular meeting time:
Wednesdays 4:30 pm (tea served at 3:30)
Place: Fine 314
date | speaker | title | |
15 September | |||
22 September | Gil Kalai , Hebrew and Yale Universities | The Upper Bound Theorem for Convex Polytopes | |
29 September | Ulrike Tillmann, Oxford University | The space of strings and the stable cohomology of moduli space | |
6 October | Allen Knutson, Berkeley | The algebraic geometry of vertex decompositions and Young tableaux | |
13 October | Weinen E, Princeton University | Crisis in Applied Mathematics |
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20 October | Alexandre Kirillov, University of Pennsylvania | Analysis and geometry of fractals |
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27 October | FALL BREAK | ||
3 November | |||
10 November | Barry Simon, Caltech *** CANCELLED *** |
The Sharp Form of the Strong Szego Theorem | |
17 November | Elon Lindenstrauss, Princeton University | TBA | |
1 December | John Cardy, Oxford University and the Institute for Advanced Study | Quantum and Classical Network Models |
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8 December | Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago | Universal Acyclic groups and the Morse landscape of certain distortion functionals |