The University of British Columbia Colloquium
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| DATE and TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| January 7 Friday, 3pm |
Qinglan
Xia (University of Texas, Austin) |
The Formation of Tree Leaves |
| January 10 Monday, 4pm MATH 203 |
Katrin
Wehrheim (Princeton University) |
Floer
Theories in Symplectic Topology and Gauge Theory |
| January 12 Wednesday, 3PM WMAX 110 |
Frank
Sottile (Texas A&M University) |
Tropical Interpolation |
| January 14 Friday, 3pm |
Dylan
Thurston (Harvard University) |
How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound
4-manifolds? |
| January 17 Monday, 4pm MATH 203 |
Patrick
Brosnan (SUNY at Buffalo) |
Motives and the algebraic theory of
quadratic forms |
| January 21 Friday, 3pm |
Yu Yuan (University of Washington) |
Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations |
| January 24 Monday, 4pm MATH 203 |
Anders
Buch (Aarhus Universitet) |
Quantum cohomology of Grassmannians |
| January 26 Wednesday, 3pm WMAX 110 |
Michael
Goldberg (Caltech) |
Dispersive Bounds for the
Schrödinger Equation with Almost Critical Potentials |
| January 28 Friday, 3pm |
David
Ambrose (Courant Institute) |
Analysis and computing for free-surface
problems in fluid dynamics |
| February 2 Wednesday, 3pm WMAX 110 |
Joshua
Cooper (Courant Institute) |
Quasirandom Permutations |
| February 4 Friday, 3pm |
Arpad
Benyi (UMass. Amherst) |
From linear to bilinear pseudodifferential
operators |
| February 7 Monday, 4pm MATH 203 |
Joseph
Maher (Caltech) |
Geometries and covers of 3-manifolds |
| February 9 Wednesday, 4pm WMAX 110 |
Dimitris
Achlioptas (Microsoft Research) |
Applications of Random Matrices in
Spectral Computations and Machine Learning |
| February 23 Wednesday, 3PM WMAX 110 |
Sergei
Krutelevich (University of Ottawa) |
Jordan algebras, exceptional groups,
and higher composition laws |
| February 25 Friday, 3pm |
Jeff
Smith (Purdue University) |
A Tour of the Homotopy Category |
| March 4 Friday, 3pm |
Alain-Sol
Sznitman (ETH Zurich) |
Random motions in random media |
| March 11 Friday, 3pm |
Richard
Bass (University of Connecticut) |
Jump processes: some links with analysis
and PDE |
| March 18 Friday, 3pm |
Sara
Billey (University of Washington) |
Intersecting Schubert Varieties |
| April 1 Friday, 3pm |
Vlada
Limic (UBC) |
The triangle problem: simple to state but
difficult to solve |
| April 15 Friday, 3pm |
Boris
Kunyavskii (Bar Ilan University) |
Characterization of radicals in
finite dimensional Lie algebras and finite groups |
| April 18 Monday, 3PM WMAX 110 |
Ramdorai
Sujatha (Tata institute) |
Birational Geometry and Localisation |
| April 29 Friday, 3pm |
Benjamin
Sudakov (Princeton University) |
Probabilistic reasoning and Ramsey Theory |
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