Seminars

Mathematics Colloquium – Talks Prior to Spring 2019

1/18/05
Mathematics Colloquium

  1. The Lattice Of Threshold Graphs
  2. Mathematicians Working With Teachers In California: The Acclaim Experience

Tom Roby (California State University, Hayward)

1/20/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Langlands Reciprocity And Satake Isomorphism
Kyu-Hwan Lee (University of Toronto)
1/25/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Some Results On The Computability And Axiomatizability Of Trivial Uncountably Categorical Theories
Alfred Dolich (McMaster University)
1/27/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Analysis Of Values In Undergraduate Mathematics Placement
Jamie Sutherland (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
2/1/05
Mathematics Colloquium

  1. Linear Control Systems On Lie Groups
  2. Improving K-12 Teachers Education

Fabiana Cardetti (University of Connecticut)

2/3/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Kolmogorov Complexity and Martin-Lof Randomness
Joseph Miller ()
2/15/05
Mathematics Colloquium
p-adic Analytic Variation of Modular Forms
Payman Kassaei (McGill University, Montreal)
3/14/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Conformal invariants, Q-curvature and Ricci tensor
Alice Chang (Princeton University)
3/15/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Minimal Surfaces in pseudo-Hermitian Geometry
Paul Yang (Princeton University)
3/17/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Topological analysis of enzymatic actions: DNA link formation byXer recombination and DNA unknotting by type II topoisomerase
Mariel Vasquez (University of California at Berkeley)
3/17/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Medical Image Segmentation Using Deformable Models
Chengyang Xu ()
3/24/05
Mathematics Colloquium
From the Manhattan Project to Number Theory: How nuclear physics helps us understand primes.
Steve Miller (Brown University)
3/31/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Non-Fickian diffusion and spatial heterogeneity of biofilms
Fuchang Gao ( the effective treatment of biofilm infection remains underdeveloped. One of the main challenges is that the bacteria within biofilms tend to be far more resistant to biocides and antibiotics. Despite the increasing interest)
4/7/05
Mathematics Colloquium
The chiral de Rham complex, orbifolds, elliptic genera, and automorphic forms
Matt Szczesny ()
5/19/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Population Haplotyping: Phasing, Tagging and Disease Association
Alexander Zelikovsky (Georgia State University)
9/1/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Topology of M0,n(R)
Pavel Etingof (MIT)
9/13/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Deformations of subvarieties of algebraic varieties
Herb Clemens (Ohio State University)
9/22/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Mathematics Applied to Medicine
Helen Moore (American Institute for Mathematics)
9/29/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Two stories about about implicitization and commutative algebra
David Cox (Amherst College)
10/6/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Modularity in homotopy theory
Matthew Ando ()
10/13/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Higher torsion of graphs and surfaces
Kiyoshi Igusa (Brandeis)
10/20/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Psychorealism: A Fresh Perspective
Karan Singh ( which allows artists to transcend the linear perspective of a pin-hole camera model. The talk will develop a conceptual framework to construct and interactively control shape and illumination under nonlinear projection and address)
10/27/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Random Walks in Random Environments
Ofer Zeitouni (University of Minnesota)
11/4/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Heat Equations in Infinitely Many Variables and Applications to
Michael Roeckner (Purdue University)
11/10/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Few-Nucleon Scattering and Bound States in the Faddeev-Yakubovsky Scheme.
Walter Gloeckle (Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany)
11/17/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Numbers, Quantum Fields and Motives
Dirk Kreimer (Boston University/IHES)
12/1/05
Mathematics Colloquium
Stringy invariants of orbifolds
Takashi Kimura (Boston University)
1/24/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Combinatorics of Young walls and representation theory
Seok-Jin Kang (Seoul National University)
1/26/06
Mathematics Colloquium
I. Symmetric Space Valued Moment Maps, II.Advantages, Challenges, and Dividends of Online Placement
Matthew Leingang (Harvard University)
1/31/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Tides of Tutoring: I. Planetary tides and Europa, II. Tutor training case study
Sarah Frey (California State University, East Bay)
2/2/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Direct simulation of mixed continuum-discrete physics with high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods
Gustaff Jacobs (Brown University)
2/7/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Domain Decomposition Methods
Jung-Han Kimn (Louisiana State University)
2/9/06
Mathematics Colloquium
I. Which Improper Integrals are Finite? Multiplier Ideals and Monomial Ideals.
II.Cultivating a learning network
Jason Howald (John Carroll University)
2/21/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Fast High-Order Integral Equation Methods (with application to optical
Michael C. Haslam ()
2/22/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Special joint colloquium Math-MCB-PNB: On the Growth of Brain Tumors: enhancing imaging techniques and highlighting inadequacies of current therapies
Professor James Murray FRS (Membre de l’Institut de France, Oxford (em.), Univ. of Washington (em.))
2/24/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Escape from a Circle and Riemann Hypotheses
Leonid Bunimovich ()
3/1/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Asymptotic spectral approximations and free probability theory
Friedrich Goetze (Universitaet Bielefeld)
3/2/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Stellar subdivisions and blowings up
Dan Abramovich ()
3/23/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Laurent expansions in cluster algebras via quiver representations
Andrei Zelevinsky ()
3/30/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Rigidity of polytopes and toric varieties
Tom Braden (UMass)
4/4/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Uniformization and geometrization in a metric space setting
Bruce Kleiner (Yale)
4/13/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Matrix Distance Problems
Michael L. Overton (Courant Institute, NYU)
4/20/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Form and Sound: Remarks on PDEs and Fractals
Umbero Mosco (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
4/26/06
Mathematics Colloquium
ìCollaboration between Mathematicians: Some Personal Anecdotesî
Farshid Hajir (UMass)
8/8/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Variances of First Passage Times in a Markov Chain with Application to Mixing Times
Jeffrey Hunter (Massey University Auckland)
9/7/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Integer Valued Polynomials – A Survey
Paul-Jean Cahen (UniversitÈ Paul CÈzanne, Aix-Marseille III/UConn)
9/14/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Tableaux combinatorics for the asymmetric exclusion process
Lauren Williams (Harvard)
9/21/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Triangular billiards, scaling limits, and Fourier series
Richard Schwartz ()
9/28/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Vector bundles over holomorphic symplectic surfaces
Eyal Markman (UMass)
10/5/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Mirror symmetry for quotients of tori by finite groups
Michael Thaddeus (Columbia University)
10/19/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Computer Experiments in Representation Theory
Gregg Zuckerman (Yale)
10/25/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Hyperbolic Polynomials & Van der Waerden/Schrijver-Valiant like Conjectures
Leonid Gurvits ()
11/2/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Nonnegativity and stability in matrix theory
Daniel Hershkowitz (Technion,)
11/9/06
Mathematics Colloquium
The Central Limit Theorem in infinite dimensions
Joel Zinn (Texas A&M)
11/28/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Upper bounds on the coarsening rates of discrete ill-posed nonlinear diffusions
John Boone Greer (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU)
11/30/06
Mathematics Colloquium
On the overlap in the multiple spherical SK models.
Dmitry Panchenko (MIT)
12/5/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Analysis and computations for Oldroyd-B fluids
Becca Thomases (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU)
12/7/06
Mathematics Colloquium
Upper bound on coarsening rate for epitaxial growth models
Xiaodong Yan ( Michigan State University)
1/16/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Mixed finite element formulation for elasticity and Navier-Stokes problems
Yanqiu Wang (Purdue University)
1/18/07
Mathematics Colloquium
A Rigorous Formalism of Information Transfer between Dynamical System Components
X. San Liang (Courant Institute)
1/23/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Layered hydraulic flows and their application to the ocean
Ulrike Riemenschneider (Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
1/25/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Maximum Norm Estimates in Finite Element Methods
Dmitriy Leykekhman (Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University)
1/29/07
Mathematics Colloquium
HIGH MOMENT ASYMPTOTICS FOR LOCAL AND INTERSECTION LOCAL TIMES
Xia Chen (University of Tennesee, Knoxville)
1/30/07
Mathematics Colloquium
PDE in musical notation
Luke Rogers (Cornell University)
2/1/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Probability and Morse Theory
Ionel Popescu (Northwestern)
2/6/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Multiscale approximations for stochastic reaction networks
Lea Popovic (Cornell University)
2/8/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Two Mathematical problems in vision
Wei Zhu ()
2/12/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Hierarchical Insurance Claims Modeling
Emiliano Valdez (University of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia)
2/13/07
Mathematics Colloquium
The DB underpin hybrid pension plan: valuation and funding
Kai Chen (University of Waterloo, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science)
2/14/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Analysis of an Activator-Inhibitor System: Global Solutions and Steady States
Huiqiang Jiang (University of Minnesota)
2/15/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Efficient Stochastic Modeling Utilizing Mixed Probability Density for Tail Enhancement (Post Representative Scenarios)
Yvonne Chueh (Central Washington University)
3/15/07
Mathematics Colloquium
An Overview of Numerical Algebraic Geometry
Andrew Sommese (Notre Dame)
3/27/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Quantum Harmonic Oscillators to Holomorphic Functions
Bruce Driver ()
3/29/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Matrix Diagonals
Richard Brualdi (University of Wisconsin)
4/5/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Kahler Ricci flow with small energy.
Xiuxiong Chen (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
4/18/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Special Awards Day Colloquium: A Tribute to Euler
William Dunham (Muhlenberg College (Koehler Professor of Mathematics))
4/23/07
Mathematics Colloquium
DNA Topology
De Witt Sumners (Florida State University)
9/20/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Precision Vector Field Analysis: Exact Formulation in Multiple Coordinate Systems
Domina Eberle Spencer (University of Connecticut)
9/27/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Computably enumerable sets and degrees of unsolvability
Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
10/25/07
Mathematics Colloquium
The Real Zeros Property or An Example of Analysis helping Combinatorics and Discrete Probability
Miklos Bona (University of Florida)
11/1/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Splitting of Linear Operators: Lyapunov and Perron-Frobenius
Hans Schneider (University of Wisconsin ó Madison)
11/8/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Extensions of Positive Definite Functions on Amenable and on Free Groups
Mihaly Bakonyi (Georgia State University)
11/13/07
Mathematics Colloquium
The heat equation, random walks, and percolation
Martin Barlow (University of British Columbia)
11/15/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Geometry and the ìcomplexityî of computation
Jessica Sidman (Mount Holyoke College)
11/29/07
Mathematics Colloquium
Arithmetic dynamics
Joseph Silverman (Brown University)
1/22/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Large deviations regimes for a last passage model
Iddo Ben-Ari (University of California, Irvine)
1/24/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Quiver Representations: Basic Facts and Some Recent Developments
Ralf Schiffler (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
1/28/08
Mathematics Colloquium
The length spectrum of a flat surface
Moon Duchin ()
1/29/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Duality for Spaces with Group Actions
Pramod Achar ( one is often interested in the geometry of spaces equipped with a group action. In this setting)
1/31/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Complex projective structures and applications
David Dumas (Brown University)
2/4/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Syzygies of algebraic varieties
Milena Hering (University of Minnesota)
2/5/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Ranks of elliptic curves
¡lvaro Lozano-Robledo ( to this day)
2/5/08
Mathematics Colloquium
The game of Hex and other mathematics topics for K-12 teachers
¡lvaro Lozano-Robledo (Cornell University)
2/8/08
Mathematics Colloquium
A Place For Everyone
Karen Lange (University of Chicago)
2/8/08
Mathematics Colloquium
The relative strength of the Atomic and Homogeneous Model Theorems
Karen Lange (University of Chicago)
2/11/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Periodic Orbits of Twisted Geodesic Flows and Floer Homology
Başak G¸rel (UniversitÈ de MontrÈal)
2/12/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Double affine Lie theory
Nicolas Guay (University of Edinburgh)
3/18/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Symplectic manifolds with symmetries
Hui Li (University of Luxembourg)
3/19/08
Mathematics Colloquium
From combinatorics to geometry for knots and 3-manifolds
David Futer (Michigan State University & MSRI)
3/20/08
Mathematics Colloquium
An Introduction to Topological Quantum Field Theories and Manifold Invariants
Alexander Russell (University of Connecticut)
3/21/08
Mathematics Colloquium
The derived category and modern approaches to counting curves
Arend Bayer ( captures a lot of geometric information in a well-organized manner.”)
3/27/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Random Additive Preconditioning for Matrix Computations
Victor Pan (Lehman College, CUNY)
4/3/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Singular integrals and perturbation theory
Sergei Treil (Brown University)
4/10/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Calibrating the Complexity of Mathematical Proofs and Constructions
Richard Shore (Cornell University)
4/28/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Wolfgang Doeblin, a mathematician rediscovered
Film by Agnes Handwerk and Harrie Willems (Cosponsored by the Statistics Department)
10/9/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Effectiveness and Computation in Algebra and Geometry
Wesley Calvert ()
10/30/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Numerical Multilinear Algebra
Charles F. Van Loan ( and (d) the need for block tensor data structures.”)
11/13/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Time stepping methods for numerical solution of hyperbolic PDEs
Sigal Gottlieb (UMass Dartmouth)
11/20/08
Mathematics Colloquium
What is … a modular form? (And why should we care?)
David Rohrlich ( emphasizing basic definitions)
12/2/08
Mathematics Colloquium
Virtual Cell: a computational tool for modeling in cell biology
Boris Slepchenko (University of Connecticut Health Center)
2/5/09
Mathematics Colloquium
Matrix problems arising from symbolic dynamics
Mike Boyle (University of Maryland, College Park)
2/6/09
Mathematics Colloquium
Geometry and Randomness in Fluid Mechanics
Rajeev S. G. (University of Rochester)
2/17/09
Mathematics Colloquium
The Importance of Rank
Gilbert Strang ()
2/26/09
Mathematics Colloquium
Hyperbolic Billiards and Large Deviations
Luc Rey-Bellet (University of Massachusets, Amherst)
3/6/09
Mathematics Colloquium
Poincare inequality on infinite dimensional spaces
Xue-Mei Li (University of Warwick/ Courant Institute)
3/6/09
Mathematics Colloquium
A \weak convergence\” alternative to Harris chains”
Martin Hairer (Courant Institute)
3/19/09
Mathematics Colloquium
Locally analytic representation theory of p-adic groups
Jeremy Teitelbaum (University of Connecticut)
4/9/09
Mathematics Colloquium
New connections between the function space BMO (bounded mean oscillation) and absolute continuity of elliptic measure.
Jill Pipher (Brown University )
4/16/09
Mathematics Colloquium
Great Moments of the Riemann zeta function
Jennifer Beineke (Western New England College)
4/24/09
Mathematics Colloquium
On the Probability that two Combinatorial Objects are Similar
Miklos Bona ()
9/24/09
Mathematics Colloquium
Noise Sensitivity, Noise Stability, Percolation and some connections to TCS
Gil Kalai ( Oleszkiewicz 05 http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/0503.5503) and the connection to hardness of approximation.”)
10/8/09
Mathematics Colloquium
The learning of fractions: How can it be built on the learning of whole numbers?
Liping Ma ()
10/16/09
Mathematics Colloquium
A simple lemma in calculus and its application in Kaehler geometry
Xiuxiong Chen (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
10/29/09
Mathematics Colloquium
Tropicalisation of rational varieties
Alicia Dickenstein (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
11/5/09
Mathematics Colloquium
Twisted Euler Products
Solomon Friedberg (Boston College)
11/12/09
Mathematics Colloquium
Conflicts between Mathematics Educators and Mathematicians, and Ways to Overcome Them
Wilfried Schmid (Harvard University)
11/18/09
Mathematics Colloquium
The Riemann Hypothesis
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
11/18/09
Mathematics Colloquium
The Linear Algebra of Internet Search Engines
Lesley Ward (University of South Australia)
11/19/09
Mathematics Colloquium
Integral quadratic forms: from local to global
Wai Kiu Chan (Wesleyan University)
12/4/09
Mathematics Colloquium
How to count hypergeometric functions
Laura Matusevich (Texas A & M University)
2/19/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Mixed Type Equations and Transonic Flows
Zhouping Xin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
3/4/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Quadrature formulas for functions defined on Riemannian manifolds
Frank Filbir (Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry)
3/18/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Linear Algebra Education Reform: Building a strong sequence of undergraduate linear algebra courses.
Steven J. Leon (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
3/24/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Queuing Theory Applied to Business
Harold Schwenk (BGS Systems (Ret.))
3/25/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Spanning trees and vector bundles on graphs
Richard Kenyon ()
4/1/10
Mathematics Colloquium
The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
William McCallum (University of Arizona)
4/8/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Finite generation of the canonical ring
James McKernan (MIT)
4/12/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Pythagoras at the Bat: An Introduction to Statistics and Modeling
Steven J. Miller (Williams College)
4/15/10
Mathematics Colloquium
A survey of alternating permutations
Richard Stanley (MIT)
4/22/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Elementary teachers as mathematicians: Turning challenges into opportunities
Kenneth Gross (University of Vermont)
4/29/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Smooth representations of G_2
Ju-Lee Kim (MIT)
7/26/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Reaction-diffusion system with skew-gradient structure
Chao Nien Chen (National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan.)
9/16/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Folding Carpenter’s Rules, Robot Arms, Proteins: from geometry to combinatorics
Ileana Streinu ( and where is this research leading to.)
9/23/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Memorization or understanding: are we teaching the right thing?
Eric Mazur (Harvard University)
10/7/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Representation theory of hyperplane arrangements
Tom Braden (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
10/14/10
Mathematics Colloquium
The Polynomial Hirsch Conjecture and Polymath3
Gil Kalai ()
10/19/10
Mathematics Colloquium
On the best constant in the Moser-Aubin-Onofri inequality on S^2
Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia)
10/28/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Super-Brownian Motion and Critical Random Systems
Ed Perkins (UBC/University of Connecticut)
12/9/10
Mathematics Colloquium
Compact moduli spaces of algebraic surfaces
Jenia Tevelev (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
1/18/11
Mathematics Colloquium
F-structures for the Non-Specialist, and the Geometry of Collapse
Brian Weber (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
1/20/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Accounting for Regime and Parameter Uncertainty in Regime-Switching Models
Brian Hartman (University of Waterloo)
1/25/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Ricci solitons and warped product Einstein metrics
William Wylie (University of Pennsylvania)
2/3/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Micro-econometric Modeling of Personal Lines Insurance
Yunjie (Winnie) Sun (University of Wisconsin)
2/3/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Cofinal types of ultrafilters
Dilip Raghavan ()
2/7/11
Mathematics Colloquium
A Generalized Beta Copula with Applications in Modeling Multivariate Long-tailed Data
Xipei Yang (University of Wisconsin)
2/8/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Extracting Complexity Bounds from Proofs of Set Existence
Henry Towsner ()
2/10/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Image Restoration via Sparsity: Wavelet Tight Frame, Low Rank Matrix and Beyond
Jian-Feng Cai (University of California at Los Angeles)
2/15/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Numerical Solutions to Inverse Problems
Julianne Chung (University of Maryland at College Park)
2/17/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Chaos and Fractals: Exciting Students About Mathematics
Robert L. Devaney (Boston University)
2/17/11
Mathematics Colloquium
A Bayesian Log-normal Model for Multivariate Loss Reserving
Peng Shi (Northern Illinois University)
2/24/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Complexity Penalization in Low Rank Matrix Recovery
Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Institute of Technology)
3/18/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Soap Bubble Clusters
Frank Morgan ()
3/24/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Anisotropic Diffusion Kernels with Applications to Inverse Problems
Dan Kushnir (Yale University)
4/7/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Geometry of Irreducibility
Jihun Park (z)
4/13/11
Mathematics Colloquium
The Evolution of MATLAB
Cleve Moler (Mathworks Company)
4/14/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Geometry and Surfaces
Robert Meyerhoff (Boston College)
10/12/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Discussion and Brainstorming: Design curriculums to meet the modern business need
Maoli Chang (Affinion Group, Stamford CT)
10/19/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Parameter Estimation in Exponential Sums
Frank Filbir (Helmholtz Institut M¸nchen)
10/20/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Feynman path integrals in curved spaces
Bruce Driver ( canonical quantization may be ambiguous due to problems with \”operator orderings.\” On the other hand at first blush)
10/26/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Coloring Some Perfect Graphs
Maria Chudnovsky (Columbia)
11/3/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Faculty meeting
Evarist Gine-Masdeu ()
11/10/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Graduate student meeting
Evarist Gine-Masdeu ()
11/11/11
Mathematics Colloquium
On Zaremba’s Conjecture
Alex Kontorovich (Yale)
11/16/11
Mathematics Colloquium
If It Pleases the Court: The Use of Mathematical Reasoning in the Courtroom
Mark Myers (Point Break Associates, LLC)
11/17/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Plumes in kinetic transport: how simple random walk can be too simple
Michel Dekking (Technical University of Delft)
11/22/11
Mathematics Colloquium
What should `e’, `pi’, `gamma(1/2)’, `zeta(3)’ be, if `numbers’ are replaced by `functions’?
Dinesh Thakur (University of Arizona)
12/1/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Undecidability in number theory
Bjorn Poonen (MIT)
12/8/11
Mathematics Colloquium
Equivalence relations, random graphs and stochastic homogenization
Vadim Kaimanovich (University of Ottawa)
1/19/12
Mathematics Colloquium
The geometry and topology of Ricci solitons
Ovidiu Munteanu (Columbia University)
1/26/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Counteracting flatness with affine arclength measure
Lindsay (Betsy) Stovall (University of California, Los Angeles)
1/31/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Kahler ricci flow on Fano manifolds.
Bing Wang (State University of New York)
2/2/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Positive mass theorems and scalar curvature problems
Lan-Hsuan Huang (Columbia University)
2/9/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Stability of leaves
Rui Loja Fernandes (Instituto Superior Tecnico)
2/20/12
Mathematics Colloquium
The Malliavin Calculus and its Applications
David Nualart (The University of Kansas)
2/21/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Model Theory and Complex Exponentiation
Dave Marker (UIC)
3/1/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Computability, constructivity, and convergence in measure theory
Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon)
3/21/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Making Sense of Elementary Algebra
Al Cuoco (” and a four-year high school curriculum that my colleagues and I have developed)
3/30/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Quartic Curves and Their Bitangents
Bernd Sturmfels (University of California at Berkeley)
4/5/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Functional Inequalities: Probability and geometry in interaction
Fabrice Baudoin (Purdue)
4/12/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Abelian Networks
Lionel Levine (Cornell)
4/26/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Square values of polynomials
Michael Zieve (University of Michigan)
5/3/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Solution Maps of the Phase Transition System
Nicholas Alikakos (University of Athens, Greece)
9/6/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Algebraic models in system biology
Reinhard Laubenbacher (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech)
9/20/12
Mathematics Colloquium
What is the abc conjecture?
Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
9/27/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Introduction to Vertex Operators and Representations of Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras
Alex Feingold ()
10/4/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Retarded potentials and time domain Calderon Calculus
Francisco-Javier Sayas (University of Delaware)
10/11/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Teaching Math Courses Online
Steven Pon / Amit Savkar ()
10/18/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Journey to Hyperbolic Space Starting from an sl(2) Base
Georgia Benkart (University of Wisconsin—Madison)
10/25/12
Mathematics Colloquium
The current state of the almost periodic factorization
Ilya Spitkovsky (College of William and Mary)
11/1/12
Mathematics Colloquium
Algebra: The Calisthenics for the Game of Life
Herbert Gross (Math as a Second Language)
11/8/12
Mathematics Colloquium
An information theoretic approach to sharp Sobolev and isoperimetric inequalities
Deane Yang (Polytechnic Institute of NYU)
11/29/12
Mathematics Colloquium
The Transverse Geometry of Tiling Spaces
Jean Bellissard ()
12/6/12
Mathematics Colloquium
A geometric theory of modular representations of Lie algebras
Ivan Mirkovic (UMASS—Amherst)
3/14/13
Mathematics Colloquium
From persistence probabilities to Brascamp-Lieb-type inequalities
Frank (Fuchang) Gao (University of Idaho)
4/4/13
Mathematics Colloquium
Random matrices: Law of the determinant
Van Vu (Yale University)
4/18/13
Mathematics Colloquium
Boundary regularity for Monge-Ampere equation
Ovidiu Savin (Columbia University)
4/25/13
Mathematics Colloquium
Simply laced Lie algebras with built-in structure constants
Lisa Carbone (Rutgers)
9/5/13
Mathematics Colloquium
Statistical Inference for L&eacutevy Processes
Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge)
9/12/13
Mathematics Colloquium
Integrable particle systems and Macdonald processes
Ivan Corwin (Columbia University, Clay Mathematics Institute, MIT)
10/2/13
Mathematics Colloquium
What are minimal submanifolds and are they important?
Richard Schoen (Stanford University)
10/3/13
Mathematics Colloquium
An introduction to mathematical general relativity
Richard Schoen (Stanford University)
10/4/13
Mathematics Colloquium
Extremal eigenvalue problems and their geometry
Richard Schoen (Stanford University)
10/10/13
Mathematics Colloquium
From Pythagoras to Einstein: Geometry and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
Hubert Bray (Duke University)
10/17/13
Mathematics Colloquium
Ancient solutions to geometric flows
Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University)
10/24/13
Mathematics Colloquium
A Minkowski inequality and a Penrose inequality
Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University)
11/7/13
Mathematics Colloquium
Sobolev spaces, Lipschitz homotopy groups and the Heisenberg group
Jeremy Tyson (UIUC)
11/14/13
Mathematics Colloquium
Canonical Metrics on Algebraic Varieties
Jacob Sturm (Rutgers)
2/6/14
Mathematics Colloquium
Orbital stability investigations for travelling waves in a nonlinearly supported beam
Michael Plum (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
2/27/14
Mathematics Colloquium
The notion of mass in Riemannian geometry
Dan Lee (Queens College, CUNY)
3/13/14
Mathematics Colloquium
A survey of algebraic cobordism
Marc Levine (Univesity Duisburg-Essen)
3/27/14
Mathematics Colloquium
Magnetic vortices
Christof Melcher (Aachen University)
4/10/14
Mathematics Colloquium
Computable Mathematics and Reverse Mathematics
Denis Hirschfeldt ()
4/17/14
Mathematics Colloquium
On the scalar curvature and volume of Riemannian manifolds
Justin Corvino (Lafayette College)
9/11/14
Mathematics Colloquium
Representation theory of symmetric groups and Hecke algebras
Alexander Kleshchev (University of Oregon)
10/9/14
Mathematics Colloquium
Tilting modules for path algebra of type A_n, Catalan-numbers and polytopes
Lutz Hille (Mathematisches Institut der Universit‰t M¸nster)
10/23/14
Mathematics Colloquium
Stratifying modular representations of finite groups
Henning Krause (Bielefeld University)
10/30/14
Mathematics Colloquium
Cluster algebras, cluster categories and support tau-tilting modules
Idun Reiten (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
11/6/14
Mathematics Colloquium
Levi-flat hypersurfaces in complex manifolds
Mei-Chi Shaw (University of Notre Dame)
11/18/14
Mathematics Colloquium
Googling Einstein and Wikipeding Cartan
Ian Anderson (Utah State University)
1/29/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Splines meet Fractional Operators
Peter Massopust (Technical University Munich and the Helmholtz Research Center)
2/5/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Applications of cluster algebras in Number theory, Geometry, Topology and Physics
Kyungyong Lee (Wayne State University)
2/19/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Toggle group actions, abstractions, and applications
Jessica Striker (North Dakota State University)
3/12/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Symmetric groups, symmetric functions, and geometry
Weiqiang Wang (University of Virginia)
3/26/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Specialized Macdonald polynomials, quantum $K$-theory, and Kirillov-Reshetikhin modules
Cristian Lenart (University at Albany – SUNY)
4/2/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Valuing equity-linked death benefits in jump-diffusion models
Elias Shiu (University of Iowa)
4/23/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Some interactions between algebra and combinatorics
Sean Sather-Wagstaff (North Dakota State University)
4/28/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Structure and randomness in the primes
Leo Goldmakher (Williams College)
4/30/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Abstract Bergman kernel expansion
Zhiqin Lu (UC Irvine)
9/24/15
Mathematics Colloquium
What is Nonsmooth Analysis?
Matthew Badger and Vasileios Chousionis (University of Connecticut)
10/1/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Stochastic Analysis on Riemannian foliations
Fabrice Baudoin (Purdue University)
10/8/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Spaces satisfying Poincare inequalities
Bruce Kleiner (Courant Institute)
10/15/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Equidistribution of Frobenius eigenvalues
Kiran Kedlaya (University of California, San Diego )
10/22/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Hausdorff dimension and projections
Pertti Mattila (University of Helsinki)
10/29/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Geometry behind the Poincare inequalities
Nages Shanmugalingam (University of Cincinnati)
11/12/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Regularity for subelliptic PDE through uniform estimates in multi scale geometries
Luca Capogna (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
11/19/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Rectifiability, the Riesz transform, and harmonic measure
Xavier Tolsa (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
12/10/15
Mathematics Colloquium
Random paths in a random medium and Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality
Timo Seppalainen (University of Wisconsin Madison)
1/18/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Geometric variational theory and applications
Xin Zhou (MIT)
1/19/16
Mathematics Colloquium
A problem in linear algebra and Ulrich modules
Ian Shipman (University of Utah)
1/20/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Positivity for cycles
Aurel Mihai Fulger (Princeton University)
1/21/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Universality in numerical computations with random data
Thomas Trogdon (NYU)
1/22/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Global regularity for Robin problems in a class of \bad\” domains”
Alexandro Velez Santiago (UC Riverside)
1/25/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Polyhedra inscribed in quadrics and their geometry.
Sara Maloni (Brown)
1/27/16
Mathematics Colloquium
The rationality problem in algebraic geometry
Asher Auel (Yale)
1/29/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Topics in Stochastic Analysis
Fabrice Baudoin (Purdue)
2/2/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Coupling and geometry
Sayan Banarjee (Warwick)
2/4/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Extrapolation of Trend Parameters for Development Triangle GLMs
Thomas Hartl (Bryant College)
2/5/16
Mathematics Colloquium
On parabolic Harnack inequality and heat kernel estimates
Janna Lierl ( depending on the underlying metric measure space. An application of this equivalence)
2/8/16
Mathematics Colloquium
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special talk ( )
2/10/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Sharp geometric inequalities and applications to PDEs
Guozhen Lu (Wayne State)
2/11/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Stochastic Control in Optimal Insurance and Investment
Bin Zou (Technische Universit‰t M¸nchen)
2/12/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Transseries: algebra and logic
Matthias Aschenbrenner (UCLA)
2/16/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Characterizing the bivariate tail behavior with applications
Valentin Adimit (City University of London)
2/22/16
Mathematics Colloquium
TBA
special talk ()
2/29/16
Mathematics Colloquium
UConn Geometry Day, Distinguished Lecture on Nonlinear Equations in Geometry
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)
3/1/16
Mathematics Colloquium

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4/7/16
Mathematics Colloquium
A Friendly Introduction to Cluster Algebras and Brane Tilings
Gregg Musiker (University of Minnesota)
4/14/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Stability of the Positive Mass Theorem
Christina Sormani (City University of New York and Lehman College)
4/21/16
Mathematics Colloquium
A Mathematicianís Perspective on How So Many Things Can Fall Apart in the ìBlink of an Eyeî
Charlie Hadlock (Bentley University)
4/28/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Exclusion and zero-range processes: Stochastic models of interacting particles
Timo Seppalainen (University of Wisconsin-Madison )
9/22/16
Mathematics Colloquium
A Diffusion Model for Limit-Order Book Evolution
Steven Shreve (Carnegie Mellon)
10/4/16
Mathematics Colloquium
On the Role of Financial Innovation and Finance Science in Global Economic Growth and Development
Robert Merton ()
10/13/16
Mathematics Colloquium
On necessary and sufficient conditions in the problem of optimal investment.
Dmitry Kramkov (Carnegie Mellon)
10/20/16
Mathematics Colloquium
THE SEVEN MOST IMPORTANT EQUATIONS FOR YOUR RETIREMENT: How to Use them and the Stories Behind them
Moshe Milevsky (York)
10/27/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Hochschild cohomology for finite linear group actions on affine spaces
Cris Negron (MIT)
11/10/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Copulas: A Tool for Modeling Dependent Insurance Risks
Edward Frees (Wisconsin)
11/17/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Strong Cosmic Censorship and the Nature of Singularities in Solutions of Einsteinís Equations
Jim Isenberg ( and then discuss what is known about AVTD behavior and Strong Cosmic Censorship in families of solutions defined by varying degrees of isometry)
12/1/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Some of the Latest Thoughts on Credit Portfolio Modeling
David Li (Prudential)
12/8/16
Mathematics Colloquium
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O’íNeil ()
3/16/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Quantum gauge theories on surfaces and the Makeenko-Migdal equation
Brian Hall (University of Notre Dame)
3/23/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Representation stability and finite linear groups
Stephen Sam (University of Wisconsin)
3/30/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Fermat’s Last Theorem (Number Theory Day)
Ken Ribet (University of California, Berkeley)
4/7/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Differentiability of the level set flow (Geometry Day Lecture)
William Minicozzi (MIT)
4/7/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Weyl law for the Volume Spectrum (Geometry Day Lecture)
AndrÈ Neves (University of Chicago)
4/13/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Prime numbers, randomness, and the gambler’s fallacy
Robert Lemke Oliver (Tufts)
4/20/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Minkowski problems of geometric measures
Gaoyong Zhang (New York University)
4/28/17
Mathematics Colloquium
How many ways can I get to the coffee shop?
Dr. Brendan Kelly (Harvard University)
9/21/17
Mathematics Colloquium
The universal triangle-free graph has finite big Ramsey degrees
Natasha Dobrinen ()
10/5/17
Mathematics Colloquium
How hard is it to compute an isomorphism?
Barbara Csima (University of Waterloo)
10/10/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Algorithms, Equations, and Logic
Martin Davis (NYU-Courant and UC Berkeley)
10/12/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Unsolvability and Undecidability in the Diophantine Realm
Martin Davis (NYU-Courant and UC Berkeley)
10/19/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Complexity in fields of generalized power series
Julia Knight (University of Notre Dame)
10/26/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Vaught’s conjecture in computability theory
Antonio Montalb·n (UC Berkeley)
11/2/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Mathematical Aspects of Arbitrage
Ioannis Karatzas ( \”martingale\”)
11/9/17
Mathematics Colloquium
Computability Theory and Diophantine Approximation
Theodore Slaman (UC Berkeley)
11/14/17
Mathematics Colloquium
On Euclidean Yang-Mills Random Fields
Bruce Driver ()
12/7/17
Mathematics Colloquium
The 2017 Nobel Prize for Gravitational Waves
Philip Mannheim (University of Connecticut)
2/22/18
Mathematics Colloquium
Theory of matrix weights and convex body domination
Sergei Treil (Brown University)
3/8/18
Mathematics Colloquium
Bernhard Riemann and his moduli space
Lizhen Ji (University of Michigan)
3/15/18
Mathematics Colloquium
spring break
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4/5/18
Mathematics Colloquium
Oligopoly Mean Field Games & Energy Production
Ronnie Sircar (Princeton University)
4/11/18
Mathematics Colloquium
Number Theory and Dynamics
Joseph Silverman (Brown University)
4/25/18
Mathematics Colloquium
Entropy, symmetry, and rigidity
David Constantine (Wesleyan)
4/26/18
Mathematics Colloquium
Poisson stochastic process and basic Schauder and Sobolev estimates in the theory of parabolic equations
Nicolai Krylov (University of Minnesota)
9/13/18
Mathematics Colloquium
The Polaron Measure
Srinivasa Varadhan (NYU Courant)
9/20/18
Mathematics Colloquium
Nonlinear PDEs, random walk, Gaussian processes, random matrices and heat kernels
Ofer Zeitouni (NYU Courant)
9/27/18
Mathematics Colloquium
Convergence of spectral measures and eigenvalue rigidity in random matrices
Elizabeth Meckes (Case Western Reserve University)
10/4/18
Mathematics Colloquium
The anti-concentration phenomenon
Van Vu (Yale University)
10/11/18
Mathematics Colloquium
Market Impact and the Intraday Trading Invariance Hypothesis
Walter Schachermayer (University of Vienna)
10/18/18
Mathematics Colloquium
On the discrete Hilbert transform
Rodrigo Banuelos (Purdue University)
10/25/18
Mathematics Colloquium
A new approach to prove tightness based on Malliavin calculus
David Nualart ()
11/1/18
Mathematics Colloquium
Tales of Random Projections
Kavita Ramanan (Brown University)
11/15/18
Mathematics Colloquium
Mean Field Games with finite states in the weak formulation, and application to contract theory.
Rene Carmona (Princeton University)