Department of Mathematics, University
 of Toronto

2005-2006 Colloquium Schedule-in-progress

Unless noted otherwise, colloquia are on Wednesdays, at 4:10 pm, at BA6183, 40 St. George Street.
Refreshments are served in the Math Lounge at 3:30 p.m.


Wednesday,
September 28, 2005
Huaihui Chen (Nanjing Normal University)
"On the Bloch constant"
Wednesday,
October 5, 2005

Bertrand Duplantier (Saclay and Fields Institute)
"Einstein and Brownian Motion"

Wednesday,
October 12, 2005
Eugene Lerman (Urbana-Champaign)
"Toric spaces, symplectic and contact."
Wednesday,
October 19, 2005
Valentin Blomer (University of Toronto)
"Sums of Squares"

Wednesday,
October 26, 2005

Pavel Bleher (IUPUI)
"Exact Solution of the Six-Vertex Model with Domain Wall Boundary Condition"
Wednesday,
November 2, 2005
Mitsuhiro Shishikura (Kyoto University and Fields Institute)
"The Lebesgue measure of Julia sets"
Wednesday,
November 9, 2005
Jonathan Weitsman (UC Santa Cruz)
"Measures on Banach manifolds and supersymmetric quantum field theory."
Wednesday,
November 16, 2005
Camil Muscalu (Cornell)
"Classical multi-linear harmonic analysis revisited"
Wednesday,
November 23, 2005
Coxeter Lectures
by Lai-Sang Young (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences )
Wednesday,
November 30, 2005
Charles Fefferman (Princeton)
"Conformal Invariants II"
Wednesday,
December 7, 2005
Tom Hales (University of Pittsburgh)
"Formal proofs, the four-color theorem, and the Kepler conjecture for sphere packings"
Wednesday,
January 11, 2006
Distinguished Lectures
by Gregory Margulis (Yale)
Special time!
Friday, January 13, 2006, 2pm
Lenny Ng (Stanford)
"Contact geometry, holomorphic curves, and topology"

Special time!
Monday, January 16, 2006, 4pm

Andrei Caldararu (University of Wisconsin)
"The McKay correspondence and orbifold Hochschild cohomology"
Special time!
Friday, January 20, 2006, 2pm
Benjamin Schlein (Harvard)
"The Gross-Pitaevskii equation and the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates."
Special time!
Monday, January 23, 2006, 4pm
Wee Liang Gan (MIT)
"Symplectic reflection algebras and quantum Hamiltonian reduction"
Wednesday,
January 25, 2006
Ilia Zharkov (Harvard)
"Integral affine structures"
Special time!
Friday, January 27, 2006, 2pm
Vitali Kapovitch (University of Maryland)
"Fundamental groups of manifolds with lower Ricci curvature bounds"
Wednesday,
February 1, 2006
Jacob Rasmussen (Princeton)
"Knot Polynomials and Knot Homologies"
Wednesday,
February 8, 2006
John Roe (Penn State)
"Translation algebras, limit operators and K-theory"
Wednesday,
February 15, 2006
Sergey Fomin (University of Michigan)
"Cluster algebras"
Wednesday,
March 1, 2006
Shlomo Sternberg (Harvard)
"General Covariance and the Passive Equations of Physics."
Wednesday,
March 8, 2006
Yan Soibelman (Kansas State University)
"Algebra and geometry of mirror symmetry"
Thursday,
March 9, 2006
Vladlen Timorin (SUNY, Stony Brook)
"Analogs of hodge-riemann bilinear relations."
Wednesday,
March 22, 2006
Jim Carlson (Clay Mathematics Institute)
"Cubic Surfaces and Hyperbolic Geometry"
Wednesday,
March 29, 2006
Blyth Lectures by Andrei Okunkov (Princeton)
"Random Surfaces Around Us."
Thursday,
March 30, 2006
Blyth Lectures by Andrei Okunkov (Princeton)
"Instantons, and How Random Surfaces Count Them."
Friday,
March 31, 2006
Blyth Lectures by Andrei Okunkov (Princeton)
"Toward Probabilistic Mirror Symmetry."
Wednesday,
April 5, 2006
Ivan Fesenko (University of Nottingham)
"New translation invariant measures on arithmetic loop spaces, Laplace transform of mean-periodic functions, and Riemann hypothesis for zeta integrals in dimension two."
Friday,
April 7, 2006
Alexander Varchenko (University of North Carolina)
"The B. and M. Shapiro conjecture in real algebraic geometry."
Tuesday,
April 11, 2006
Oleg Viro (University of Uppsalla)
"Basic characteristics of generic real curves with available
complexification."
Monday,
May 1, 2006

Charles Fefferman (Princeton)
" Zero Sets of Eigenfunctions"

Wednesday,
May 3, 2006
Yosef Yomdin (Weizmann Institute)
"Fourier Transform of ``Simple'' Functions"

Last updated: April 24, 2006
Send comments and questions to ilia@math.toronto.edu

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