Stanford Department of Mathematics Colloquium 2010-2011 |
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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.
| Fall Quarter | ||
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| 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 |