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Mathematics Colloquium

2010-11


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



Schedule, semester A


18th October 2010: Micha Sharir (Tel Aviv University), Sharing joints, in moderation: A new bridge between algebraic and combinatorial geometry.


25th October 2010: Yaron Ostrover (Tel Aviv University), Algebraic properties of the quantum homology.


1st November 2010: Iddo Eliazar (Holon Institute of Technology, Israel), Universal generation of fractal statistics.


8th November 2010: Roy Meshulam (Technion), Helly type theorems and topology.


15th November 2010: Yuliy Baryshnikov (Bell Labs), Search on the brink of chaos.


22nd November 2010: Dennis Gaitsgory (Harvard University), A review of categorical Geometric Langlands.


29th November 2010: Zeev Rudnick (Tel Aviv University), Lattice points on circles and nodal lines of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian.


6th December 2010: Anatoly Katok (Penn State University), KAM and Rigidity.


13th December 2010: Pavel Shvartsman (Technion), The Whitney problem: how to measure smoothness of functions on finite sets.


20th December 2010: Asaf Nachmias (MIT), Arm exponents in high-dimensional percolation.


27th December 2010: Anatoly Vershik (St. Petersburg), Actions and representations of groups.


3rd January 2011: Lior Bary-Soroker (Essen University), Irreducible values of polynomials.


10th January 2011: Boris Tsirelson (Tel Aviv University), Black noise of percolation.


17th January 2011: Hugo Duminil-Copin (University of Geneva), Discrete complex analysis and statistical physics.





Schedule, semester B


21st February 2011: Dima Gourevitch (Weizmann Institute of Science) , Measuring representations of GL(n,R).


28th February 2011: Amnon Yekutieli (Ben Burion University), Nonabelian Multiplicative Integration on Surfaces.


7th March 2011: Sergei Tabachnikov (Pennsylvania State University), Geometry, algebra, and dynamics of the pentagram map.


14th March 2011: Michael Cwikel (Technion), A simple(?) geometric question with deep consequences for BMO.


21st March 2011: Maxim Kazarian (Moscow Steklov Institute and Independent University), Universal polynomials and enumerative geometry.


28th March 2011: Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis), What is quantum probability?


4th April 2011: Aviv Censor (Tel Aviv University), Towards Topological Groupoidification.


11th April 2011: Vitali Milman (Tel Aviv University), The Reasons Behind of Some Classical Constructions in Geometry and Analysis.


Extended Passover break
(the extension is due to memorial days)

16th May 2011: Emanuel Milman (Technion), Isoperimetric and Concentration Inequalities - Equivalence and Applications.


23rd May 2011: Mariusz Lemanczyk (Copernicus University, Poland), Differential equations on S^3 and topological dynamical systems given by cocycles.


30th May 2011: Helmut Hofer (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Symplectic Dynamics.


6th June 2011: Eyal Lubetzky (Microsoft Research, Redmond), The static and stochastic Ising models.





Organizer: Bo'az Klartag