Department of Mathematics, University
 of Toronto

2000-2001 Colloquia

Wednesday, September 20, 2000 Leonid Bunimovich (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Hyperbolic Billiards: Dispersing, Astigmatism and Absolute Focusing
Wednesday, September 27, 2000 John Millson (University of Maryland @ College Park)
Polygonal Linkages and Flat Connections over Root Hyperplane Complements
Wednesday, October 4, 2000 Annual Departmental Meeting
Wednesday, October 11, 2000 Michael Yampolsky (University of Toronto)
Renormalization of Critical Circle Maps
Wednesday, October 18, 2000 Takis Souganidis (University of Texas @ Austin)
Fully Nonlinear Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: Theory and Applications
Wednesday, October 25, 2000 Steven Boyer (University of Quebec @ Montreal)
Representations and the Topology of 3-Manifolds
Wednesday, November 1, 2000 Lars Hesselholt (M.I.T.)
Witt Vectors, Topological Hochschild Homology, and the Lichtenbaum-Quillen Conjecture for Local Fields
Wednesday, November 8, 2000 Mikhail Kapranov (University of Toronto)
Eisenstein Series for Loop Groups and S-Duality
Wednesday, November 15, 2000 Gerhard Frey (University of Essen)
Fermat's Last Theorem and Cryptography
Monday, November 20, 2000 Yakar Kannai (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Kernels Associated with the Heisenberg Laplacian and Sub-Riemannian Geometry
Wednesday, November 22, 2000 Misha Kapovich (University of Utah)
Periods of Abelian Differentials
Wednesday, November 29, 2000 Sergei Kuksin (Heriot-Watts University)
Invariant Measures for Randomly Forced PDEs and the Problem of Turbulence
Wednesday, December 6, 2000 Kari Vilonen, Northwestern University
Geometric Langlands Conjecture
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 Michael Thaddeus (Columbia University)
Mirror Symmetry, Langlands Duality and Integrable Systems
Wednesday, January 10, 2001 Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)
Coupled Oscillators, Landau Damping, and Bubbly Fluids
Wednesday, January 17, 2001 Ravi Ramakrishna (Cornell University)
Deforming Global Galois Representations
Wednesday, January 24, 2001 Shankar Venkataramani (University of Chicago)
What Can We Learn from a Crumpled Sheet? A Variational Problem in Geometry
Wednesday, January 31, 2001 Miguel Abreu (Fields Institute)
Topology of Symplectomorphism Groups
Wednesday, February 7, 2001 Daniel Lidar (University of Toronto)
Quantum Computing: Algorithms and Error Avoidance
Wednesday, February 14, 2001 Alexander Shnirelman (Tel Aviv University)
Braids, Flows and Magnetic Equilibria
February 19-23, 2001 Reading Week
Wednesday, February 28, 2001 Dinakar Ramakrishnan (Caltech)
Landau-Siegel Zeros: Introduction with Examples
Wednesday, March 7, 2001 Francois Lalonde (University of Quebec at Montreal)
Classical Applications of Quantum Homology
Wednesday, March 14, 2001 Harvey Friedman (Ohio State University)
Does Normal Mathematics Need New Axioms?
Wednesday, March 21, 2001 Mikhail Lyubich (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Dynamics of Quadratic Polynomials
Wednesday, March 21, 2001 Shmuel Weinberger (University of Chicago)
Computation and Riemannian Variational Problems
Wednesday, March 28, 2001 Don Blasius (UCLA)
Purity for Hilbert Modular Forms
Wednesday, April 4, 2001 Dmitry Novikov (University of Toronto)
Convex-Concave Surfaces in Real Projective Spaces

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