Mathematics Colloquium
Summer Term 2008-09
Organiser: Volker Betz (V dot M dot Betz at warwick dot ac dot uk) and Brian Bowditch (
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Additional colloquia, titles and abstracts will be added as details become available. (
pdf of poster)
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 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.
- Friday 24 April 2009 Saul Schleimer (Warwick)
The universal Cannon-Thurston map - Friday 1 May 2009 Michel Boileau (Toulouse)
Dehn fillings and geometric stuctures on 3-manifolds - Friday 8 May 2009 Dieter Kotschick (LMU Munich)
Characteristic numbers of algebraic varieties - Friday 15 May 2009 Jonathan Brundan (Oregon)
Khomanov's diagram algebra and the general linear subgroup - Friday 22 May 2009 Detlef Dürr (LMU Munich)
From ontology to noncommutativity: Boltzmann Born and Bohm - Friday 29 May 2009 Vassili Gelfreich (Warwick)
Fermi acceleration - Friday 5 June 2009 Ben Leimkuhler (Edinburgh) (in Lecture Room MS.05)
Controlling molecular dynamics - Friday 19 June 2009 Camillo De Lellis (Zürich) (in Lecture Room MS.01)
Minimal currents in codimension larger than one
Spring Term 2008-09
- Friday 9 January 2009 Nigel Hitchin (Oxford)
The space of icosahedra - Friday 16 January 2009 Alfio Quarteroni (Milan / Lausanne)
Mathematical modeling and the Galileo legacy - Friday 23 January 2009 Bill Meeks (UMass, Amherst) (Change of room: B3.03)
The classical theory of minimal and constant mean curvature surface theory with an emphasis on the uniqueness of examples found by Euler, Delaunay, Scherk and Riemann. - Friday 30 January 2009 Robert Kerr (Warwick)
Circulation collapse in 3D Euler: Numerical bounds. - Friday 6 February 2009 Nigel Boston (Dublin/Madison)
Random groups in number theory and topology - Friday 13 February 2009 Michael Berry (Bristol) (Change of room: MS.05)
Three recent results on asymptotics of oscillations - Friday 20 February 2009 Joe Chuang (City University London)
Rhombus tilings and tiltings - Friday 27 February 2009 Nick Higham (Manchester)
How and how not to compute the exponential of a matrix - Friday 6 March 2009 John Ratcliffe (Vanderbilt University)
- Some examples of aspherical homology 4-spheres
Autumn Term 2008-09
- Friday 3 October 2008 Andreas Dress (Shanghai Institute for Computational Biology)
Some mathematical aspects of molecular evolution - Friday 10 October 2008 Chris Jones (Warwick)
Data and models: A marriage made in mathematics - Friday 17 October 2008 Adri Olde Daalhuis (Edinburgh)
Exponential asymptotics for differential equations - Friday 24 October 2008 Serge Cantat (Rennes)
The Tits Alternative - Friday 31 October 2008 Erhard Scholz (Wuppertal)
Transitions from Weyl's early gauge geometry to physics and differential geometry - Friday 7 November 2008 Keith Moffatt (Cambridge)
Magnetostrophic turbulence driven by buoyancy - Friday 14 November 2008 Jonathan Hillman (Sydney)
Seifert fibrations and geometric decompositions in 4 dimensions
- Friday 21 November 2008 Stefan Friedl (Warwick)
When does a knot bound a disk?
- Friday 28 November 2008 Robin Wilson (Open) - Please note change of date and change of Room to B3.03
Four colours suffice - Friday 5 December 2008 Tom Spencer (IAS Princeton)
Statistical mechanics of random matrices and random walk
Tea is served in the Common Room in the Mathematics Institute from 3.00-4.00pm. The Colloquium will be followed by an informal reception (drinks and snacks) designed to give people the opportunity to have more contact with the speaker.