Mathematics Colloquium 2013-14
Organiser: Xue-Mei Li
Additional colloquia, titles and abstracts will be added as details become available.
Colloquia take place on Friday afternoons at 4.00pm, Lecture Room B3.02 in the Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building. They are directed towards a general mathematical audience. In particular, one of the functions of these Colloquia is to inform non-specialists and graduate students about recent trends, ideas and results in some area of mathematics, or a closely related field.
Autumn Term 2013/14
- 27 September 2013 Robert McLachlan (Massey University) LMS-NZMS Aitken Lecture: Successes and Prospects of Geometric Numerical Integration
- 04 October 2013 Grégory Miermont (ENS, Lyon) Random maps and random 2-dimensional geometries
- 11 October 2013 Dan Kráľ (Warwick) Analytic methods in graph theory
- 18 October 2013 Robert Calderbank (Duke) Golay, Heisenberg and Weyl
- 25 October 2013 Ashkan Nikeghbali (Zurich) Random matrices and number theory: some probabilistic aspects
- 01 November 2013 André Neves (Imperial college) Min-max theory in Geometry
- 08 November 2013 David Ruelle (l'IHÉS) Hydrodynamic turbulence as a problem in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
- 15 November 2013 Arieh Iserles (Cambridge) On the importance (and perils) of being skew-symmetric
- 22 November 2013 Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel (Utrecht) Wasserstein distances in the analysis of time series and dynamical systems
- 29 November 2013 Gitta Kutyniok (TU Berlin) Imaging Science meets Compressed Sensing
- 06 December 2013 Andrea Malchiodi (Warwick) On the structure of spike-layers
Spring Term 2013/14
- 10 January 2014 Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research) Machines that See, Powered by Probability
- 17 January 2014 Mark Pollicott (Warwick) Zeta functions in number theory, geometry and dynamics
- 24 January 2014 Ian Melbourne (Warwick) A Huygens principle for anomalous diffusion in spatially extended systems
- 31 January 2014 Konstantin Khanin (Toronto) KPZ Universality and Random Hamilton-Jacobi Equation
- 07 February 2014 David Loeffler (Warwick) Euler systems
- 14 February 2014 Richard James (University of Minnesota/Oxford) Materials from Mathematics
- 21 February 2014 [**Room MS.04**] Tim Riley (Cornell) Hyperbolic groups, Cannon-Thurston maps, and hydra
- 28 February 2014 Chris Budd (Bath) Data assimilation for problems in meteorology
- 07 March 2014 Günter M. Ziegler (Freie Universität Berlin) The story of 3N points in a plane
- 14 March 2014 Robert Marsh (Leeds) Reflection group presentations arising from cluster algebras
- 21 March 2014 Colin McLarty (Case Western) Categorical Foundations Today
Summer Term 2013/14
- 25 April 2014 Gunther Cornelissen (Utrecht) Differential geometric methods in number theory
- 02 May 2014 Peter Topping (Warwick) Ricci flow and uniformisation
- 09 May 2014 Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) Recent developments of calculus on metric measure spaces
- 16 May 2014 Peter Latham (UCL) Neuroscience from a physicist's perspective
- 23 May 2014 Henry Abarbanel (UCSD) Data Assimilation as a Physics Inverse Problem
- 30 May 2014 Gabor Elek (Lancaster) Limits of finite structures
- 06 June 2014 Benjamin Schlein (Bonn) Hartree-Fock dynamics for weakly interacting fermions
- 13 June 2014 No colloquium (1st year Ph.D. talks)
- 20 June 2014 Yves Le Jan (Orsay) Markov loop ensembles
- 27 June 2014 No Colloquium (BBQ)