Stanford Department of Mathematics Colloquium 2009-2010

Thursdays, 4:15 in 380-W

Click on the title to see the abstract (if available). For more information, please contact Brian Conrad, Soren Galatius, or Lenya Ryzhik.

Schedule of talks:

Fall Quarter
Oct. 1 Samit Dasgupta (UCSC) A p-adic approach to Hilbert's 12th problem
Oct. 15 Yuval Peres (Mircosoft) Fair allocations to random points
Oct. 29 Cliff Taubes (Harvard/MSRI) Spinors and the dynamics of vector fields in dimension 3
Nov. 12 Denis Auroux (Berkeley/MSRI) Fukaya categories and bordered Heegard-Floer homology
Dec. 3 Jacob Lurie (Harvard) Categorification of the Fourier transform
Winter Quarter
Jan. 7 No colloquium Gerard Ben-Arous (NYU) will give a Bergman Lecture
Jan. 14 Luis Caffarelli (UT Austin) Non-linear problems involving integral diffusion
Jan. 28 Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv/MSRI) Function theory on symplectic manifolds
Feb. 18 Peter Ozsvath (Columbia/MSRI) Bordered Heegaard Floer Homology
Feb. 25 Dusa McDuff (Columbia/MSRI) Symplectic embeddings and continued fractions
Mar. 4 Alan Reid (UT Austin) The geometry and topology of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Mar. 11 Robert Ghrist (U. Penn) de Leeuw lecture (4:30--5:30! Bldg 420, Room 041!): Mathematics for the Data Flood.
Spring Quarter
Apr. 1 Claude Viterbo (Polytechnique) Symplectic homogenization and applications
Apr. 8 Matt Baker (Georgia Tech) Complex dynamics and adelic potential theory
Apr. 22 David Mumford (Brown/Berkeley) (Room 380-X!) Marching to a different drummer
May 6 Jeff Lagarias (U. Michigan) Packing space with regular tetrahedra
May 14 (Friday!) Jean-Pierre Serre (College de France) (4pm, Room 380-C!) Variation with p of the number of solutions mod p of polynomial equations
May 27 Maryam Mirzakhani (Stanford) Random hyperbolic surfaces and geometry of the moduli space