Stanford Department of Mathematics Colloquium 2012-2013

Thursdays, 4:15 in 380-W
(unless otherwise indicated)

Click on the title to see the abstract (if available).

For more information, please contact Persi Diaconis.

Previous years' pages can be found here:

Schedule of talks:

Winter Quarter 2013
January 10 János Kollár
(Princeton
MRC Distinguished Lecturer Series (talk 1)
Local Topology of Analytic Spaces
January 14
(NOTE: Monday, 4:00pm,
Room 380-C
)
Maryanthe Malliaris
(Chicago)
Comparing the complexity of unstable theories
January 17
David Hoffman
(Stanford)
Helicoidal minimal surfaces of every genus
February 7 Ivan Corwin
(Microsoft Research)
Integrable particle systems and Macdonald processes
SPECIAL MATH+X COLLOQUIUM
February 7
(NOTE: 12:15pm,
Room 383-N
)
Mark Tygert
(Courant Institute/NYU)
Computer-enabled metrics of statistical significance for discrete data
February 14 Amie Wilkinson
(Chicago)
Beatrice Yormark Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series
The “general case”
February 21 Stefano Olla
(CEREMADE/
Université Paris—Dauphine)
TBA
February 28
Luis Caffarelli
(Texas–Austin)
TBA
March 7 TBA TBA
March 14 Svitlana Mayboroda
(Minnesota)
TBA
March 21 TBA TBA
Spring Quarter 2013
April 18 Andrea Bertozzi
(UCLA)
Beatrice Yormark Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series
TBA
May 2 Pengfei Guan
(McGill)
Isoperimetric-type inequalities and flows of hypersurfaces in spaces of constant curvatures
Autumn Quarter 2012
October 4 NO SEMINAR
October 11 Sourav Chatterjee
(Courant Institute/NYU)
Invariant measures and the soliton resolution conjecture
October 18 NO SEMINAR
October 25 Michael Struwe
(ETH Zürich)
MRC Distinguished Lecturer Series (talk 1)
Conformal metrics of prescribed Gauss curvature
November 1 Ravi Kannan
(Microsoft Research)
Sampling from a Matrix
November 8 Joel Spencer
(Courant Institute/NYU)
Finding Needles in Exponential Haystacks  CANCELED
November 15 NO SEMINAR
November 22 NO SEMINAR turkey facing right  Thanksgiving Holiday  turkey facing left
November 29 Peter Scholze
(Bonn)
MRC Distinguished Lecturer Series (talk 1)
p-adic Hodge theory Part 1
December 6 NO SEMINAR
December 7
SPECIAL SEMINAR
2:15pm;
Room 381-T
Angela Hicks
(UC-San Diego)
Diagonal Harmonics, Macdonald polynomials and Parking Functions
December 13 NO SEMINAR