Department of Mathematics, University
 of Toronto

2004-2005 Colloquium Schedule

Unless noted otherwise, colloquia are on Wednesdays, at 4:10 pm, at SS5017A, 100 St. George Street.
Refreshments are served in the Math Lounge (SS5017B) at 3:30 p.m.

 


Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Robert Penner (Univ. of South. Calif./Fields Inst.)
COMBINATORICS OF RIEMANN'S MODULI SPACES
Wednesday, September 29, 2004

John Millson (University of Maryland)
THE GENERALIZED TRIANGLE INEQUALITIES IN SYMMETRIC SPACES AND BUILDINGS WITH APPLICATIONS TO REPRESENTATION THEORY.

Wednesday, October 6, 2004

Jim Arthur (University of Toronto)
INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLE OF FUNCTORIALITY

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Allen Knutson (Berkeley)
The algebraic geometry of vertex decompositions and Young tableaux.

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Viviane Baladi (CNRS, Jussieu)
Dynamical zeta functions, a pseudodifferential approach

Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Friday, October 29, 2004

Blyth Lectures by Yuri Manin

Wednesday, November 3, 2004

Charles Fefferman (Princeton)
Whitney's Extension Problem I

Wednesday, November 10, 2004 Vadim Kaimanovich (U of Rennes)
Amenability, self-similarity and entropy
Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Edward Goldstein (IAS)
Volume minimization and comparison for isotropic submanifolds.

Wednesday, November 24, 2004 Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio State)
ERGODIC THEORY AND THE PROPERTIES OF LARGE SETS
Wednesday, December 1, 2004 Santiago Simanca (Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa)
Uniformization of complex surfaces with positive first Chern classes
Wednesday, December 8, 2004

Dror Bar-Natan (University of Toronto)
KHOVANOV HOMOLOGY FOR TANGLES AND COBORDISMS

Wednesday, January 5, 2005 Rina Rotman (University of Toronto)
Nets, loops, geodesics and minimal surfaces.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 David Nadler(University of Chicago)
Loops spaces and Langlands duality.
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 Giovanni Forni
Renormalization and quantitative equidistribution for parabolic flows.
Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Dylan Thurston (Harvard)
How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds?

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Barbara Keyfitz (Fields Institute)
Challenges in Consevation Laws
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 Dmitry Dolgopyat
Cancelled
Wednesday, February 16, 2005 No colloquium (Reading Week)
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 Igor Pak (MIT)
Cancelled
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Enrique Pujals (IMPA)
The Lorenz Attractor Revisited
Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Dennis Sullivan (CUNY and SUNY, Stony Brook)
New topological structures in the loop space of a manifold
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 Dick Canary (University of Michigan)
Classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Monday, March 21, 2005 Lawrence Ein (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Singularities of pairs
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Denis Auroux (MIT)
Symplectic 4-manifolds, Lefschetz fibrations and mapping class groups
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Alexander Shnirelman (Concordia University)
Microglobal Analysis
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 Lin Weng (Kyushu University)
Rank Two Non-Abelian Zeta and Its Zeros
Wednesday, May 11, 2005 M. S. Raghunathan (Tata Institute)

Last updated: September 18, 2005
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