Department of Mathematics, University
of Toronto

2009-2010 Colloquium Schedule

Location: BA6183, 40 St. George St.
Time: Wednesdays, 4:10 pm (unless noted otherwise).
Refreshments: Math Lounge at 3:30pm, preceding the colloquium.

Fall 2009

Wednesday-Friday September 16-18	Hendrik Lenstra (Universiteit Leiden) Modeling finite fields Special time and location: 3:30-4:30, Fields institute room 230.
Wednesday September 23	Vikraman Balaji (Chennai Mathematical Institute) Vector bundles and non-abelian mathematics
Wednesday September 30	Departmental meeting
Wednesday October 7	Thomas Zink (Universität Bielefeld) Overconvergent Witt differentials and rigid cohomology.
Wednesday October 14	Larry Guth (Toronto) Using algebraic topology to prove inequalities about surface areas.
Wednesday October 21	Thomas Spencer (Institute for Advanced Study) Statistical mechanics, random band matrices and hyperbolic symmetry.
Wednesday October 28	Benoit Collins (University of Ottawa) Free probability theory and quantum information theory.
Wednesday November 4	Vitali Milman (University of Tel Aviv) Duality and Rigidity for Family of Convex Functions in R^n
Wednesday November 11	Felipe Cucker (City University of Hong Kong) On a problem posed by Steve Smale
Wednesday November 18	Morwen Thistlethwaite (University of Tennessee) The relative merits of hyperbolic and algebraic knot invariants
Wednesday November 25	Mircea Mustata (University of Michigan) TBA
Wednesday December 2	Laszlo Erdos (Munich, Harvard) TBA
Wednesday December 9	Dan Knopf (UT Austin) TBA

Last updated: October 20, 2009
Send comments and questions to mgualt@math.toronto.edu

Links to past colloquia: 2008-2009, 2007-2008, 2006-2007, 2005-2006, 2004-2005.