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Mathematics Colloquium

2015-16


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



Schedule, semester A

       

2nd November 2015: Daniel Ueltschi (University of Warwick), From condensed matter physics to probability theory.

           

9th November 2015: Shmuel Weinberger (University of Chicago), Topological Problems of Data Analysis, I.

(MINT distinguished lecture; the continuation of this lecture will be delivered at the Geometry&Dynamics seminar, on Wednesday, November 11, 14:00, room Schreiber 209)


16th November 2015: Richard Kenyon (Brown University), Fixed-energy harmonic functions.

(MINT distinguished lecture)


23rd November 2015: Emanuel Milman (Technion), Curvature-Dimension Condition for Non-Conventional Dimensions.


30th November 2015: Bo Berndtsson (Chalmers University of Technology), Complex Brunn-Minkowski Theory.

(Blumenthal distinguished lecture)


7th December 2015: Ron Rosenthal (ETH Zürich), Local limit theorem for strongly ballistic random walk in random environments.


14th December 2015: Gustavo Ponce (University of California Santa Barbara), The k-generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation.


21st December 2015: Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), History and classical methods of the h-principle.

(Sackler distinguished lecture)


28th December 2015: Michael Zieve (University of Michigan), Geometry and arithmetic of rational functions.


4th January 2016: Tadashi Tokieda (University of Cambridge), `Toy models'.

(TIDY distinguished lecture)

This talk will be given in Melamed hall 006, Shenkar building, and not in Schreiber 006.


11th January 2016: Philip Rosenau (Tel Aviv University), Emergence of Compact Patterns.

This talk will be given in Schreiber 007.





Schedule, semester B



29th February 2016: Iosif Polterovich (University of Montreal), Spectral geometry of the Steklov problem.


7th March 2016: Anton Petrunin (PennState University), On the total curvature of minimizing geodesics on convex surfaces.


14th March 2016: Leonid Positselski (Technion), Contramodules.


21st March 2016: David Conlon (University of Oxford), Recent developments in graph Ramsey theory.

(MINT distinguished lecture)


4th April 2016: Zemer Kosloff (University of Warwick), Recurrent Anosov Diffeomorphisms without an absolutely continuous invariant measure.


11th April 2016: Penny Haxell (University of Waterloo), Matchings in hypergraphs.

(TWIM distinguished lecture) (Note the unusual place and time of the lecture!)



Passover break


2nd May 2016: Eran Nevo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), A Geometric Lower Bound Theorem.


9nd May 2016: Daniel Wise (Mcgill University), The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups.


16th May 2016: Lucien Birge (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie), Universal estimators - maximum likelihood and beyond.

(Sackler distinguished lecture) (Note the unusual place of the lecture!)


23rd May 2016: Yael Karshon (University of Toronto), Symplectic reduction - old and new.

(TWIM distinguished lecture) (Note the unusual place and time of the lecture!)


30th May 2016: Fedor Pakovich (Ben-Gurion University), On semiconjugate rational functions.







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, 2014-2015



Organizer: Lev Buhovski