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Mathematics Colloquium

2014-15


Math colloquium meets on Mondays at 12:15
in Schreiber 006, Tel-Aviv University.



Schedule, semester A

       

27th October 2014: Michael Krivelevich (Tel Aviv University), Intelligence vs Randomness: the power of choices.


3rd November 2014: Alexander Sodin (Tel Aviv University), A modification of the moment method, and some applications to random matrices.

           

10th November 2014: Dmitry Gourevitch (Weizmann Institute), Schwartz functions and equivariant tempered distributions on Nash manifolds, and applications in representation theory.


17th November 2014: Michael Khanevsky (University of Chicago), Length spectrum of symplectic surfaces.


24th November 2014: Zeev Rudnick (Tel Aviv University), Sums of three squares and spatial statistics on the sphere.


1st December 2014: Henri Berestycki (Ecoles des hautes études en sciences sociales), Propagation in non homogeneous media and applications.

(MINT distinguished lecture)


8th December 2014: Klim Efremenko (Simons Institute at Berkeley), Locally Decodable Codes and Representation Theory.


15th December 2014: Andrei Gabrielov (Purdue University), Classification of spherical quadrilaterals.


22nd December 2014: Ronen Eldan (University of Washington), Deriving some new inequalities related to the convolution operator on Gaussian space using stochastic calculus.


29th December 2014: Alexandre Eremenko (Purdue University), Goldberg's constants.


5th January 2015: Noga Alon (Tel Aviv University), Graphs, vectors and integers.


12th January 2015: Alex Furman (University of Illinois at Chicago), Rigidity for groups with hidden symmetries.

(MINT distinguished lecture)


19th January 2015: Doron Puder (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Words Maps and Measure Preservation.





Schedule, semester B



9th March 2015: Mathias Schacht (University of Hamburg), Turán-type problems for quasirandom hypergraphs.


16th March 2015: Tobias Hartnick (Technion), A geometric refinement of the fundamental group of a surface.


23rd March 2015: Asaf Nachmias (Tel Aviv University), Random planar graphs and their circle packing.



Passover break


13th April 2015: Albert Cohen (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie), Breaking the curse of dimensionality in parametric PDEs.

(Sackler distinguished lecture)


20th April 2015: Ariel Yadin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Harmonic functions on groups.


27th April 2015: Jianya Liu (Shandong University), Prime solutions to Diophantine equations.


4th May 2015: Danny Neftin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Rational functions and their monodromy.


11th May 2015: Amos Nevo (Technion), Harmonic Analysis, Ergodic Theory and Diophantine Approximation.


18th May 2015: Tsachik Gelander (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Most hyperbolic manifolds are non-arithmetic.


25th May 2015: Gady Kozma (Weizmann Institute of Science), Random walk in random environment: the operator theory approach.


1st June 2015: Amir Dembo (Stanford University), Statistical physics on sparse random graphs: mathematical perspective.


8th June 2015: Van Vu (Yale University), Random matrices: Gaps between eigenvalues.

(MINT distinguished lecture)


15th June 2015: Richard Evan Schwartz (Brown University), The projective heat map. 

(Blumenthal Lecture in Geometry)







Previous talks: 2002-2003 , 2003-2004 , 2004-2005 , 2005-2006 , 2006-fall, 2007-spring, 2007-fall, 2008-spring, 2002-fall, 2009-spring, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-20122012-2013, 2013-2014



Organizer: Lev Buhovski