Department of Mathematics
Past Colloquia and Milton Wing Lectures

Milton Wing Lecture Series 2009

Date Speaker Title
October 21 (Dewey 2-110D 2-162)
October 22 (CSB 209)
October 23 (Goergen 108)
Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania Mathematical Sensors
Euler Calculus For Data
Algebraic Topology in the Engineering Sciences (poster)

Academic Year 2009-10 Colloquia

Date Speaker Title
November 12, 2009
Computer Studies Building 209		 Charles Doering, University of Michigan Navier-Stokes equations (poster)
February 4, 2010
Wilmot 116		 Alexandru Ionescu, University of Wisconsin On the uniqueness of stationary black holes in vacuum (poster)
February 25, 2010
Hylan 101		 Gerard Ben Arous, Courant Institute Complexity of Random Morse Functions of many variables
March 4, 2010 (at 2:30, note time change)
Dewey 2110D 		Selman Akbulut, Michigan State University Cappell-Shaneson homotopy 4-spheres are standard (abstract)

Academic Year 2008-09

Date Speaker Title
October 22, 2008, 3:45-4:45 (joint with Physics, note time change) Edward Belbruno, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University Random Walk in the Three-Body Problem and Formation of the Moon (poster)
November 13, 2008 Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute Surviving as a quantum computer in a classical world (poster)
March 19, 2009 Kannan Soundararajan, Stanford University Quantum Unique Ergodicity and Number Theory (poster)
April 2, 2009 Chris Skinner, Princeton University Modular forms and special values of L-functions
April 16, 2009 Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth University Order and chaos (poster)

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)