Stanford Department of Mathematics Colloquium 2010-2011

Thursdays, 4:15 in 380-W

Click on the title to see the abstract (if available). For more information, please contact Jun Li, or Lenya Ryzhik.

Schedule of talks:

Fall Quarter
Oct. 5 Terry Tao (UCLA) The first Bergman Lecture: The proof of the Poincare conjecture
Oct. 7 Terry Tao (UCLA) The second Bergman Lecture: Universality for Wigner random matrices
Oct. 21 Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann Institute) From branching random walks to Gaussian Free Fields
Nov. 11 David Nadler (Northwestern University) A Trinity of Quantizations
Nov. 18 Luca Trevisan (Stanford) Khot's Unique Games Conjecture
Winter Quarter
January 6 Maciej Zworski (Berkeley) Semiclassical scattering and applications
January 13 David Jerison (MIT) Internal Diffusion Limited Aggregation and the Gaussian Free Field
January 27 Davesh Maulik (MIT) Enumerative Geometry of K3 Surfaces
February 3 Nick Ercolani (Arizona) Random Matrix Combinatorics
February 17 Henri Berestycki (EHESS and University of Chicago) The principal eigenvalues of elliptic operators in unbounded domains
February 24 Paul Seidel (MIT) How complicated are symplectic manifolds?
Spring Quarter
March 31 Wilfried Schmid (Harvard Un.) Hodge theory and unitary representations of reductive Lie groups
April 7 Hendrik Lenstra (Un. of Leiden) Finite fields and field topologies
April 14 Alex Eskin (Un. of Chicago) Billiards in rational polygons and the SL(2,R) action on moduli space
April 21 Wilhelm Schlag (Un. of Chicago) Invariant manifolds and dispersive Hamiltonian evolution equations
April 28 (no talk)
May 5 Jeremy Kahn (SUNY Stony Brook) The Good Pants Homology and the Ehrenpreis Conjecture
May 12 (no talk)
May 19 Hari Manoharan (Stanford) A Tale of Two Spectra: Quantum Drums Beat as One
May 26 Peter Sarnak (IAS and Princeton Un.) Thin Integer Matrix Groups and the Affine Sieve