Stanford Department of Mathematics Colloquium 2007-2008

Thursdays 4:15-5:15 pm in 380-F

Click on the title to see the abstract (if available). For more information, please contact Soren Galatius (galatius@math), Gautam Iyer (gautam@math), or Kannan Soundararajan (ksound@math).

Schedule:

Fall Quarter
October 18	Sam Payne (Stanford/Clay)	Toric Vector Bundles
November 1	Simon Brendle (Stanford)	Ricci flow in higher dimension and the sphere theorem.
November 8	Assaf Naor (NYU)	The story of the Sparsest Cut problem.
November 15	David Eisenbud (Berkeley)	Plato's Cave: What we still don't know about the projections in projective geometry.
November 29	Bill Fulton (U. Michigan)	Origins of Positivity in Algebraic Geometry
December 6	Bruce Driver (UCSD)	Integrated Harnack Inequalities
Winter Quarter
Jan 10	Kevin Zumbrun (Indiana)	Stability of strong viscous shock layers in an ideal gas
Jan 24	Edriss Titi (UC Irvine)	On the Global Regularity for the Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes and Relevant Equations
Jan 31	Richard Melrose (MIT)	Adiabatic limits, surgery and operators
Feb 14	Dan Freed (Austin)	Topology and Strings
Feb 21	Karen Vogtmann (Cornell)	Geometries for automorphism groups of free groups
Feb 28	Wolfgang Lück (Münster)	On the Borel Conjecture and related topics
Mar 6	Ulrich Kohlenbach (Tech. Univ. Darmstadt)	Logical proof interpretations as a tool for "hard analysis"
Mar 13	Robert Kohn (Courant)	Cloaking by Change of Variables
Spring Quarter
Apr 10	Curt McMullen (Harvard)	Algebraic integers and algebraic dynamics
Apr 15	Graeme Segal (Oxford)	Non-commutative geometry and quantum field theory. (SPECIAL TIME)
Apr 17	Craig Tracy (UC Davis)	The Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process: Integrable Structure
Apr 24	David Jerison (MIT)	Free Boundary Problems
May 8	Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research)	Internal aggregation with multiple sources: From Diaconis-Fulton addition to a free boundary problem.
May 22	Rick Schoen (Stanford)	The geometry of positive curvature
May 29	Urs Schreiber (Hamburg)	On nonabelian differential cohomology

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