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
April 7 TBA TBA