Department of Mathematics, University
 of Toronto

2007-2008 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 2008

Special time Monday, 4pm
Jan 7
Larry Guth (Stanford University)
Ways to describe the size of a Riemannian manifold
Wednesday
Jan 9
Ben Weinkove (Harvard University)
Symplectic forms, Kähler metrics and the Calabi-Yau equation
Special time Friday, 1pm
Jan 11
Per-Gunnar Martinsson (University of Colorado)
Fast numerical methods for solving linear PDEs
Special time Monday, 1pm
Jan 14
Seth Sullivant (Harvard University)
Algebraic Statistics
Special time Friday, 1pm
Jan 18
Spyridon Alexakis (Princeton)
The decomposition of global conformal invariants: On a conjecture of Deser and Schwimmer
Special time Monday, 1pm
Jan 21
Luis Silvestre (New York University)
Fully nonlinear integro-differential equations
Wednesday
Jan 23
Sebastian Casalaina-Martin (Harvard)
Curves, abelian varieties, and the moduli of cubic threefolds
Special time Friday, 1pm
Jan 25
Alessandro Pizzo (ETH Zürich)
Multi-scale methods in atomic physics
Special time Monday, 1pm
Jan 28
Natasa Sesum (Columbia)
On the Ricci flow and the asymptotics of its solutions on R^2
Wednesday
Feb 6
Veronique Godin (Harvard)
Intersection theory and string topology
Wednedsay
Feb 13
Mark Braverman (University of Toronto)
Noisy Sorting with Resampling
Wednesday
Feb 20
READING WEEK
Wednesday 4:30 (Special time)
Feb 27
Miklós Abért (University of Chicago)
Finite graphs, groups, and dynamics
Wednesday
Mar 5
Matthias Neufang (Carleton University)
An Invitation to Operator Spaces - CANCELLED due to weather
Wednesday
Mar 12
James Arthur (University of Toronto)
Semisimple groups as universal examples [a version of AMS retiring presidential address]
Special time and place
Thursday, Mar 13, 3pm
BA1180
Maxim Kazarian (Steklov Institute and Moscow Independent University)
Enumeration of singularities
Wednesday
Mar 19
Yuri Tschinkel (NYU and University of Göttingen)
Height zeta functions
Wednesday
Mar 26
Marina Ratner (UC Berkeley)
The theory of unipotent flows with applications
Wednesday
Apr 2
Lin Weng (Kyushu University)
Stability in Arithmetic
Thursday SPECIAL TIME
Apr 10, 4:45 pm
Akshay Venkatesh (NYU)
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Fall term 2007

Wednesday
September 19
Allen Knutson (UC San Diego)
Schubert calculus and geometric shifting: combinatorics meets combinatorics, via geometry
Monday - BLYTH LECTURES
September 24, 4:10pm, BA 1170
Manjul Bhargava (Princeton)
Sums of squares and generalizations I
Tuesday - BLYTH LECTURES
September 25, 4:10pm, BA 1170
Manjul Bhargava (Princeton)
Sums of squares and generalizations II
Wednesday - BLYTH LECTURES
September 26, 4:10 pm, BA 1170
Manjul Bhargava (Princeton)
Sums of squares and generalizations III
Wednesday
October 3
Ilya Gruzberg (University of Chicago)
Random shapes and random maps: SLE and siginificant others
Wednesday
October 10
Richard Melrose (MIT)
Adiabatic limits and surgery
Wednesday
October 17
Roland Speicher (Queen's)
Operator-valued semicircular elements: at the intersection of combinatorics, random matrix theory, and complex analysis
Monday - Special time
October 22, 3pm
Keith Moffatt (Cambridge, UK)
Current sheet formation and decay in a highly conducting fluid
Wednesday
October 24
Michael Rubinstein (University of Waterloo)
The L-function of an elliptic curve and probability
Wednesday
October 31
Roman Holowinsky (University of Toronto)
Maass Equidistribution through Analytic Number Theory
Wednesday
November 7
Rafael Krikorian (Ecole Polytechnique)
Some problems and results in the theory of quasi-periodic cocycles
Wednesday
November 14
Jeff Adams (University of Maryland)
Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations
Wednesday
November 21
Maciej Zworski (Berkeley)
Fifty years of Lewy's counterexample
Wednesday
November 28
Andrew Toms (York University)
Dimension functions and the structure of C*-algebras
Wednesday
December 5
Christopher Phillips (University of Oregon)
Crossed products of irrational rotation algebras by finite groups

Last updated: Aug 10, 2007
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