DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
SPRING 2010
WEDNESDAY 4:30-5:30 pm
Tea served at 4:00
Fine Hall 314


DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC
Jan. 20

Timothy Austin,
UCLA
Some recent convergence results for nonconventional ergodic averages
Feb. 3
Amit Singer,
Princeton University
Mathematical Theory of Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Feb. 10 Mike Hopkins,
Harvard University
The Kervaire invariant problem
Feb. 24 Andrew Granville,
Universite de Montreal
Pretentiousness in the analytic theory of numbers
Mar. 3 Persi Diaconis,
Stanford University
Adding a list of numbers (and other determinantal processes)
Mar. 10 Daniel Wise,
McGill University
CAT(0) cube complexes in geometric group theory
Mar. 24 Russ Lyons,
Indiana University
Random Complexes via Topologically-Inspired Determinants
Mar. 31 Assaf Naor,
New York University
L_1 embeddings of the Heisenberg group and fast estimation of graph isoperimetry
Apr. 14 Balint Virag,
University of Toronto
Random Schrodinger Operators and Random Matrices
May 5 Karl Rubin,
University of California, Irvine
Elliptic curves and Hilbert's 10th problem