Department of Mathematics
Colloquium Series

Time and Place: 4:45-5:45, Goergen 108

Academic Year 2007-08

Date Speaker Title
October 18, 2007 Robert Strichartz, Cornell University Differential equations and quantum mechanics on fractals (poster)
November 8, 2007 Walter Craig, McMaster University Invariant tori and the dynamics of Hamiltonian PDE (poster)
April 3, 2008 Steve Zelditch, Johns Hopkins University Ergodicity, complex numbers and nodal lines (poster)
April 16, 2008, 5-6 (note time change) John Morgan, Columbia University Geometry and Topology in Dimension 3 (poster)
April 24, 2008, 4:50-5:50 Jeff Brock, Brown University Beyond the geometrization conjecture (poster)

Academic Year 2006-07

Date Speaker Title
November 2, 2006 Christopher Sogge, Johns Hopkins University Estimates for Eigenfunctions of the Laplace Operator (poster)
December 7, 2006 Thomas Spencer, Institute for Advanced Study Random Walks from Einstein to the Present (poster)
January 25, 2007 Alan Edelman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Applications of Stochastic Eigenanalysis (Random Matrix Theory) (poster)
February 15, 2007 Dan Goldston, San Jose State University Are There Infinitely Many Twin Primes? (poster)
March 22, 2007 David Mumford, Brown University The Many Riemannian Geometries of the Infinite Dimensional Space of Simple Closed Plane Curves (poster)
April 5, 2007 Henry McKean, New York University The Gauss Normal Law of Probability and Its Remarkable Ubiquity (poster)
April 19, 2007 Richard Stanley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plane Tilings (poster)

Academic Year 2005-06

Date Speaker Title
October 27, 2005 Percy Deift, New York University Universality for Mathematical and Physical Systems (poster)
December 8, 2005 Thomas Hales, University of Pittsburgh Formal Proofs, the Four-Color Theorem, and the Kepler Conjecture for Sphere Packings (poster)
March 9, 2006 James Arthur, University of Toronto Weighted Orbital Integrals and the Langlands Program (poster)
March 30, 2006 Joseph Dauben, City University of New York Marx, Mao and Mathematics: Nonstandard Analysis and the Cultural Revolution
May 4, 2006 Craig Tracy, University of California at Davis The Airy and Pearcey Processes (poster)