Stanford Department of Mathematics Colloquium 2008-2009

Thursdays, 4:15 in 380-W

Click on the title to see the abstract (if available). For more information, please contact Brian Conrad, Gautam Iyer, or Rafe Mazzeo.

Schedule of talks:

Fall Quarter
Oct. 2 Dan Stroock (MIT) Some things that can happen when the minimum principle fails
Oct. 9 Nassif Ghoussoub (UBC) Navier-Stokes evolutions as self-dual variational problems
Oct. 23 No colloquium Gilles Lebeau will give the second talk in the annual Bergman lecture series at 4:15
Nov. 6 Brian Conrad (Stanford) Local to global in number theory
Nov. 20 Leslie Greengard (NYU) A New Formalism for Electromagnetic Scattering in Complex Geometry
Dec. 2nd (Tuesday!) Benedict Gross (Harvard) Integral Zeta Values and Counting Representations
Dec. 4th Donald Saari (UCI) Mathematics of voting and social choice
Winter Quarter
Jan. 15 Brendan Hassett (Rice/MSRI) Approximation and density results for varieties of low degree
Jan. 29 Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford) Torsion in the homology of locally symmetric spaces
Feb. 5 Ko Honda (USC) Contact structures, Heegaard Floer homology, and triangulated categories
Feb. 19 Richard Thomas (Imperial/MSRI) Counting curves in complex manifolds
Mar. 5 Philip Protter (Cornell) Filtrations and local martingales
Mar. 12 János Kollár (Princeton/MSRI) Which powers of holomorphic functions are integrable?
Spring Quarter
Apr. 9 Craig Evans (Berkeley) Adjoint methods for nonconvex Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Apr. 23 John Morgan (Columbia/Stanford) The Poincare conjecture and the topology of 3-manifolds
May 7 Max Lieblich (Princeton) The arithmetic and geometry of division algebras
May 28 Robert Bryant (MSRI/Berkeley) The nearest way: from lines to geometry
June 4 Robert Finn (Stanford) Floating Bodies