Department of Mathematics, University
 of Toronto

Comments and suggestions to kc@math.toronto.edu
Colloquium talks take place on Wednesdays at 4:10PM in room 5017A Sidney Smith Hall

2003-2004 Colloquium Schedule

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 Wilhelm Schlag (Caltech)
Recent Developments in the Anderson Localization for Quasi-Periodic Schroedinger Equations [host: M. Goldstein]
Wednesday, September 24, 2003 Andrew Toms (U. of Copenhagen)
Simple nuclear C*-algebras: a growing menagerie [host: G. Elliott]
Wednesday, October 1, 2003 Phil Morrison (U. of Texas Austin)
Magnetic Field Lines and Invariant Torus Destruction [host: R. McCann]
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 Louis Kauffman (U. of Illinois at Chicago)
Virtual Knot Theory [host: D. Bar-Natan]
Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Alexander Volberg (MSU and Univ. Paris VII)
Harmonic analysis on and Geometry of very bad sets [host: G. Mikhalkin]
Thursday October 23, 2003 4:30PM Anatoly Vershik (St. Petersburg U.)
Universality and randomness in geometry and combinatorics [host: G. Elliott]
refreshments will be served at 4:00PM
Wednesday, October 29, 2003 Velimir Jurdjevic (U of T)
The symplectic structure of curves in three dimensional spaces of constant curvature and the equations of applied mathematics
Monday, 2:10PM November 3rd, 2003 Vladimir Zorich (Moscow State U.)
Effects of space conformal rigidity [hosts: P. Milman, A. Khovanskii]
refreshments will be served at 3:00PM
Wednesday, November 5, 2003 NO TALK TODAY
(due to the CRM-Fields Prize lecture at the Fields Institute at 2:30 p.m)
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Ravi Kulkarni (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst. Allahabad)
Dynamical Types of Transformations in Classical Geometries [host: K. Murty]
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 Balint Virag (U of T)
Zeros of Gaussian power series
Wednesday, November 26, 2003 Terry Griggs (Open University UK)
Rev. T. P. Kirkman and his work on Combinatorial Design Theory [host: E. Mendelsohn]
Monday, 4:15pm December 1st, 2003 Bill Casselman (UBC)
Four thousand years of mathematics through images [host: J. Arthur]
G. Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College, 15 Devonshire Place Refreshments will be served at 3:30PM at SS-5017B
Wednesday, December 3, 2003 Tadashi Tokieda (CUNY Graduate Center)
Spinning Toys [host: B. Khesin]

2004 Colloquium Schedule

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis)
What is quantum memory? [host: D. Bar Natan]
Wednesday January 21, 2004 Ezra Getzler (Northwestern U./IAS)
Lie theory for n-groupoids [host: E. Meinrenken]
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 Karl Rubin (Stanford U.)
Ranks of elliptic curves [host: K. Murty]
Wednesday, February 4, 2004 Richard Schwartz (U. of Maryland/IAS)
Triangle groups, complex hyperbolic geometry, and Dehn surgery [host: D. B. Natan]
Wednesday, February 11, 2004 Viktor Ginzburg (UCSC)
Existence and non-existence of periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems [host: E. Meinrenken]
Wednesday, February 18, 2004 NO TALK TODAY
(reading week)
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Mircea Mustata (Harvard U.)
Singularities in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry [host: R. Buchweitz]
Wednesday, March 3, 2004 Fedor Malikov (USC)
Examples of vertex algebras associated with algebraic manifolds [host: B. Khesin]
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Alain Aspect (CNRS/Orsay)
Bell's inequalities and quantum entanglement : from the Einstein-Bohr debate to quantum information [host: P. Greiner]
Monday, March 15, 2004 4:10pm Howard Garland (Yale U.)
Eisenstein series on certain infinite-dimensional, arithmetic quotients [host: H. Kim]
Wednesday, March 17, 2004 Chisato Iwasaki (Himeji U.)
Symbolic calculus and a proof of local version of the Hirzebruch Riemann-Roch formula [host: P. Greiner]
Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Richard Hain (Duke University)
Cohomology of Mapping class groups and the geometry and arithmetic of curves [host: K. Murty/K. Consani]
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Askold Khovanskii (U of T.)
Insolvability of equations in finite terms
Wednesday, April 7, 2004 Madhu Sudan (MIT)
List decoding of error-correcting codes [host: M. Shub]
Sidney Smith Amphitheatre SS-2118 Refreshments will be served at 3:30PM at SS-5017B


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