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Mathematics Colloquium

2012-13


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



Schedule, semester A

       

22th October 2012: Michael Polyak (Technion), Knot and 3-manifold invariants via counting graphs and surfaces.


29th October 2012: Boris Dubrovin (SISSA, & Steklov Math. Institute), On geometrical structures and properties of solutions to Hamiltonian systems of partial differential equations. 

(TIDY Distinguished lecture in Mathematical Physics).


5th November 2012: Maurice de Gosson (University of Vienna), CANCELLED.


12th November 2012: Amos Nevo (Technion), Diophantine approximation, arithmetic groups, and ergodic theory.


19th November 2012: Gil Kalai (Hebrew University), Quantum information, computation, and noise.


26th November 2012: Lenya Ryzhik (Stanford University), The role of a drift in elliptic and parabolic equations.


3rd December 2012: Wojciech Samotij (University of Cambridge and Tel Aviv University), Independent sets in hypergraphs.


10th December 2012: Eyal Lubetzky (Microsoft Research and the University of Washington), Cutoff Phenomenon: Instant Randomness.


17th December 2012: Lionel Levine (Cornell University), Scaling Limit of the Abelian Sandpile.


24th December 2012: Igor Wigman (King's College, London), Nodal length fluctuations for arithmetic random waves.


31st December 2012: Fedor Nazarov (Kent State University), The ball is a local minimizer of the optimal lattice packing density in $R^3$.


7th January 2013: Stéphane Nonnenmacher (Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-Saclay)Delocalization of chaotic eigenstates: an entropy approach.

(TIDY Distinguished lecture in Mathematical Physics).


14th January 2013: Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann Institute)From KPP equations to the maxima of Gaussian free fields.


21st January 2013: Danny Calegari (University of Chicago), Surfaces From Linear Programming.

(Blumenthal Lecture in Geometry).






Schedule, semester B


4th March 2013: Gabriel Paternain (University of Cambridge) , Geodesic ray transforms and geometric inverse problems.


11th March 2013: Stefan Nemirovski (Steklov Mathematical Institute), Approximation by rational functions and Lagrangian embeddings.


18th March 2013: Dan Romik (University of California, Davis), Random noncrossing matchings arising in percolation theory.



Extended Passover break
(this time extension is due to memorial days)



9th April 2013: (SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM - *Note the day, time, and location*), Paul Busch (University of York), Quantum Uncertainty - in All Its Guises.

(TIDY Distinguished lecture in Mathematical Physics).


22nd April 2013: Uri Shapira (Technion), What is Homogeneous Dynamics and what is it good for?.


29th April 2013: Lior Bary-Soroker (Tel Aviv University), Prime polynomials in arithmetic progressions.


6th May 2013: Haim Brezis (Technion, Rutgers, Paris 6), Henri Poincaré, a founding father of the modern theory of PDEs.


13th May 2013: Barak Weiss (Tel Aviv University), Dynamics on the moduli space of translation surfaces -- a survey of recent developments.


20th May 2013: Charles Fefferman (Princeton University), Extension and interpolation problems I.


27th May 2013: Percy Deift (Courant Institute), Toeplitz Matrices and Determinants with Fisher-Hartwig Singularities.


3rd June 2013: Rolf Schneider (University of Freiburg), Tensor valuations on convex bodies.


10th June 2013: Andre Reznikov (Bar-Ilan University), Restriction of eigenfunctions and representation theory.


17th June 2013: Frédéric Bourgeois (Université Libre de Bruxelles), On the geography of Legendrian submanifolds.

(TIDY Distinguished lecture in Geometry).



Previous talks: 2002-2003 , 2003-2004 , 2004-2005 , 2005-2006 , 2006-fall, 2007-spring, 2007-fall, 2008-spring, 2008-fall, 2009-spring, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012




Organizer: Yaron Ostrover