Department of Mathematics, University
 of Toronto

2006-2007 Colloquium Schedule

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.

Spring term 2007

Wednesday
January 10
Yosef Yomdin (Weizmann Institute)
"Whitney criteria for extension of high order grid-functions and numerical solving of PDE's"
Wednesday
January 17
Vladimir Pestov (University of Ottawa)
"Infinite-dimensional groups versus locally compact groups: some recent trends"
Wednesday
January 24
Andreea Nicoara (Harvard)
"Equivalence of Types on Denjoy Carleman and Smooth Domains"
Wednesday
January 31
Radu Balan (Siemens Research)
"Algebras of Time-Frequency Shift Operators with Applications to Wireless Communications"
Wednesday
February 7
Young-Ju Lee (UCLA)
"New numerical techniques for non-Newtonian fluid models and thin film heteroepitexial growth"
Wednesday
February 14
Valentine's Day
Wednesday - reading week
February 21

Wednesday
February 28
Manfred Kolster (McMaster)
"Iwasawa invariants of number fields"
Wednesday
March 7
Nikolai Ivanov (Michigan State University)
cancelled
Wednesday - SPECIAL TIME
March 14, 3pm
Jens Markloff (University of Bristol)
"The Boltzmann-Grad limit of the periodic Lorentz gas and the distribution of visible lattice points"
Wednesday
March 14
Ludmil Katzarkov (Miami)
"Homological Mirror Symmmetry and Applications"
Wednesday
March 21
Philip Holmes (Princeton)
"From neural oscillators through stochastic dynamics to optimal decisions, or Does math matter to gray matter?"
Wednesday
March 28
Sylvain Cappell (NYU)
"Comparison of Topological and Algebraic Geometrical Approach to Singularities of Maps"
Wednesday
April 4
Ram Murty (Queens)
"Effective Equidistribution"
Wednesday
April 11
Peter Topping (University of Warwick)
"Ricci flow, entropy and optimal transportation"
Wednesday
May 2
Jeff Cheeger (NYU)
"Generalized differentiation and bi-Lipschitz nonembedding"

Fall term 2006

Wednesday
September 20
Mikhail Sodin (Tel Aviv University)
"Transportation to random zeroes by the gradient flow"
Wednesday
September 27
Alexander Braverman (Brown University)
"Towards Langlands duality for loop groups"
Wednesday
October 4
no lecture
departmental open house
Wednesday
October 11
László Lempert (Purdue University)
"Complex analysis in infinite dimensions"
Friday - SPECIAL TIME
October 13, 3 pm
Alexander Olevskii (Tel Aviv University)
"Uniqueness in Fourier Analysis: a new phenomenon"
Wednesday
October 18
Anatole Katok (Penn State University)
"Invariant geometric structures for commuting differentiable maps of compact manifolds"
Wednesday
October 25
Patrick Ingram (University of Toronto)
"Primitive divisors in elliptic divisibility sequences"
Wednesday
November 1
Oleg Viro (Uppsala University)
"Knot theory (up to Khovanov homology) from a one-dimensional viewpoint"
Tuesday - SPECIAL TIME
November 7, 3pm
David Morrison (UC Santa Barbara)
"Matrix Factorizations"
Wednesday
November 8
Alina Cojocaru (University of Illinois at Chicago)
"Analytic questions in the theory of elliptic curves"
Wednesday
November 15
Nitu Kitchloo (UC San Diego)
"Complex structures on rational ruled surfaces"
Wednesday
November 22
Nigel Higson (Penn State University)
"Dimensions and C*-algebras"
Wednesday
November 29
Atsushi Ichino (Osaka City University)
"On the periods of automorphic forms on special orthogonal groups and the Gross-Prasad conjecture"
Wednesday - SPECIAL TIME December 6, 3.10 pm Birgit Speh (Cornell University)
"A closer look at some representations"
Wednesday
December 6
John Lott (University of Michigan)
"Ricci curvature for metric spaces via optimal transport"

Last updated: Dec 4, 2006
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