Stanford Department of Mathematics Colloquium 2014-2015

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

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

For more information, please contact Lenya Ryzhik or Jun Li.

Previous years' pages can be found here:

Schedule of talks:

Autumn Quarter 2014
October 9 Andras Vasy (Stanford) Some recent advances in microlocal analysis
October 13 - Monday, 3pm in 383N Karim Adiprasito (IHES) Approximation by polytopes, Betti numbers of toric varieties and graph chordality
October 16 Sijue Wu (University of Michigan) Some large time behaviors of water waves
October 30 Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) A short survey of Stein’s method
November 13 Thomas Spencer (IAS) Randomness in classical and quantum dynamics
November 27 NO SEMINAR THANKSGIVING BREAK
December 4 - Special room: 380C Carl Wieman (Physics, Stanford) Taking a scientific approach to math and science education

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Winter Quarter 2015
January 8 Felix Schlenk (Université de Neuchâtel) Complexity of Reeb flows via Floer homology
January 15 Emmanuel Breuillard (Université Paris-Sud 11) Diophantine Geometry and uniform growth of groups
January 22 Jacob Fox (Stanford) Combinatorics of Permutations
January 29 Alex Furman (University of Illinois at Chicago) Hidden symmetries of groups and super-rigidity
February 5 Benedict Gross (Harvard University) TBA
February 12 Hee Oh (Yale University) TBA
February 26 Laure Saint-Raymond (ENS, Paris) TBA



Spring Quarter 2015
April 2 Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford) Crossroads of symplectic rigidity and flexibiity
April 23 Jonathan Luk (Cambridge) The Mathematical Analysis of the Interior of Black Holes in General Relativity
April 30 Svetlana Mayboroda (University of Minnesota) Analysis of elliptic PDEs in non-smooth media and localization of the eigenfunctions
May 7 Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University) Uniqueness Theorems for Ancient solutions to Geometric Flows
May 12 (Special Day and Room), 4:15pm in 380X Alessio Figalli (University of Texas) Local and non-local minimal surfaces
May 14 Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) Gauge-String duality in lattice gauge theories
May 21 Viatcheslav Kharlamov (Université de Strasbourg) “Lectures on Abundance Phenomena in Real Enumerative Geometry” (Lecture 1)
May 28 Shamit Kachru (Physics, Stanford) New Avatars of Moonshine