Graduate Student Seminar - Math Graduate Students Association

The graduate student seminar runs every week, on Tuesdays at 12:00 PM in the department seminar room (Bahen Centre 6183). Free pizza is supplied.

Schedule of talks for Fall 2007, Winter and Summer 2008:

Date	Title	Speaker
18 September 2007	Everything Started with Weyl	Prof. Ivrii, University of Toronto
25 September 2007	Three Open Problems about Random Matrices	Prof. Balint Virag, University of Toronto: Probability and Geometry, Random Walks, Brownian Motion
2 October 2007	Random Sorting Networks	Prof. Omer Angel, University of Toronto: Particle Processes, Random Walks and Graphs, Percolation and Scaling Limits
9 October 2007	Some Easy but Interesting Facts about Collections of Matrices	Prof. Peter Rosenthal, University of Toronto: Operators on Hilbert Spaces
16 October 2007	Dynamics of Defects in Nonlinear Field Theories	Prof. R. Jerrard, University of Toronto: Nonlinear PDEs, Calculus of Variations
23 October 2007	Non-Commutative Gaussian Elimination and Rubik's Cube	Prof. D. Bar-Natan, University of Toronto: Quantum Algebra and Topology, Knot Theory
30 October 2007	The Mathematical Theory of Water Waves	Prof. C. Sulem, University of Toronto: PDEs, Nonlinear analysis
6 November 2007	The Longest Increasing Subsequence of a Permutation	Manjunath Krishnapur, University of Toronto: Probability Theory
13 November 2007	Coupling of Markov Chains	Prof. Jeff Rosenthal, Dept. of Statistics, University of Toronto: Probability and Stochastic Processes, Monte Carlo Techniques
20 November 2007	Extremal Doubly Stochastic Measures and Optimal Transportation	Prof. Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Mathematical Physics and Economics, Inequalities, Optimization, PDEs
27 November 2007	Determinants and the Geometry of Singularities	Brad Hovinen
4 December 2007	TBA	Asger Tornquist, University of Toronto: Descriptive Set Theory, Ergodic Theory
8 January 2008	The Wonders of Supersymmetry: From Quantum Mechanics, Topology and Noise to (Maybe) the LHC	Erich Poppitz, Department of Physics, University of Toronto (Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Supersymmetry, String Theory)
26 February 2008	On Some Categorical Structures and Issues of Functoriality	Snigdhayan Mahanta
4 March 2008	TBA	Zsuzsi Dancso
11 March 2008	TBA	John Mighton, JUMP, Fields Institute
18 March 2008	TBA	TBA
25 March 2008	Panel Discussion on Finding Academic Jobs	Vitali Kapovitch, Mary Pugh, University of Toronto
10 June 2008	Complex dynamics for the Lee-Yang zeros	Roland Roeder
17 June 2008	Introduction to topological quantum computation	Lucy Liuxuan Zhang
24 June 2008	Geometric Langlands through symplectic geometry	Masrour Zoghi
29 July 2008	TBA	Prof. Raphael Ponge
TBA	TBA	Jordan Bell
(5/12 August, 2008)	TBA	Prof. Frederic Rochon

Interested in giving a talk? We'd like to hear from you! We are booking student speakers for the spring term.

Email Lucy Liuxuan Zhang <lzhang@math> telling us your title and what day(s) you would prefer. We will ask for a short (1-2 paragraph) abstract the week before the talk so that it can go on the official seminar announcements.