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
 
20 October Alexandre Kirillov, University of Pennsylvania Analysis and geometry of fractals
 
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
  
8 December Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago Universal Acyclic groups and the Morse landscape of certain distortion functionals