The department has revamped its colloquium series to bring a series of
distinguished mathematicians to UR. The first speaker, Percy Deift
of the Courant Instiute, spoke on
Universality for Mathematical and Physical Systems.
The talk was enjoyed by a large group of physicists and members of other
departments, as well as the usual math crowd. Deift discussed how large
scale properties of physical and mathematical systems are often independent
of the small-scale properties of the system. One very useful model along
these lines involves random matrices, which have applications to such
disparate fields as neutron scattering and prime number theory.
Everyone is eagerly looking forward to future talks of an equally high caliber.
Here is the
list of past and upcoming talks.
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