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Mathematics Colloquium

2013-14

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


Schedule, semester A

       

21st October 2013: Alex Eskin (University of Chicago), The SL(2,R) action on moduli space.


28th October 2013: Alexander Gamburd (CUNY Graduate Center), Expander Graphs, Thin Groups, and Superstrong Approximation.

           

4th November 2013: Tamar Ziegler (Hebrew University), An inverse theorem for the Gowers norms in finite field geometries.


11th November 2013: Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University), High dimensional expanders and Ramanujan complexes.


18th November 2013: Gadi Fibich (Tel Aviv University), Continuations of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation beyond the singularity.


25th November 2013: Peter Sarnak (Princeton University & the Institute for Advanced Study), Nodal domains of eigenmodes of the Laplacian and of random band limited functions.


2nd December 2013: Yves Benoist (Université Paris-Sud), Cubic differentials and hyperbolic convex sets.


9th December 2013: Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute), Symbolic dynamics for surface diffeomorphisms.


16th December 2013: Chen Meiri (University of Chicago), The group large sieve.


23rd December 2013: Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research), Search Games and Optimal Kakeya Sets.

(Raymond and Beverly Sackler distinguished lectures in Mathematics)


30th December 2013: Tomer Schlank (M.I.T), Étale homotopy, Sections and Diophantine Equations.


6th January 2014: Rami Aizenbud (Weizmann Institute),  Frobenius formula and representation count.


13th January 2014: Benny Sudakov (ETH),  Induced Matchings, Arithmetic Progressions and Communication.





Schedule, semester B



24th February 2014: Mikhail Borovoi (Tel Aviv University), Cayley groups.


3rd March 2014: Amir Yehudayoff (Technion), Recent progress in algebraic complexity.


10th March 2014: Nir Lev (Bar-Ilan University), Quasi-crystals and summation formulas.


17th March 2014: Bo'az Klartag (Tel Aviv University), Optimal Transportation and Moment Measures.


24th March 2014: Helmut Hofer (I.A.S, Princeton), Problems and Questions in Symplectic Dynamics.


31st March 2014: Eran Nevo (Ben-Gurion University), Balanced rigidity.


7th April 2014: Ram Band (Technion), Neumann Nodal Domains.



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



12th May 2014: Alain-Sol Sznitman (ETH), Random interlacements and the local geometry of random walks.


13th May 2014 (SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM - *Note the day, time, and location*): Alejandro Uribe (University of Michigan), The semiclassical limit in Bargmann space.

(TIDY Distinguished Lecture in Mathematical Physics)


19th May 2014: Nicolai Reshetikhin (UC Berkeley), Deterministic limit shapes in statistical mechanics.

(Blumenthal Lecture in Geometry)


26th May 2014: Omer Angel (University of British Columbia), Random planar maps.


2nd June 2014: Uri Bader (Technion), Algebraic Representations of Ergodic Actions.








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,  2012-2013




Organizer: Yaron Ostrover