Mathematics Colloquium 2012-13
Organiser: Brian Bowditch
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 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.
Summer Term 2012/13
- 26 April 2013 David Blecher (Houston) Noncommutative topology and prescribing behaviour of noncommutative functions on noncommutative subsets
- 03 May 2013 Paul Krapivsky (Boston) Zero-Temperature Dynamics of Ising Ferromagnets (ROOM MS.03)
- 10 May 2013 In lieu of Colloquium: SIAM National Student Chapter Conference 2013 (ROOM MS.01):
Nicholas J. Higham (Manchester) Accuracy and Reproducibility of Numerical Computations
Mark Jerrum (Queen Mary, London) Phase transitions and computational tractability - 17 May 2013 Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein (Universita' del Sannio Benevento) Cellular automata, amenable groups, surjunctivity, and sofic groups
- 24 May 2013 Damiano Testa (Warwick) Rational points on surfaces
- 31 May 2013 Philip Welch (Bristol) Turing Unbound: black holes, computers, neural nets, bangs, shrieks, transfinite ordinals, and the kitchen sink
- 07 June 2013
- 14 June 2013 Ian Leary (Southampton) Platonic polygonal complexes
- 21 June 2013 Jeremy Quastel (Toronto) The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and universality class
- 28 June 2013
Spring Term 2012/13
- 11 January 2013 Eric Smith (Santa Fe) Generating functional methods for non-equilibrium Markov processes
- 18 January 2013 Derek Holt (Warwick) Maximal subgroups of finite (almost) simple groups
- 25 January 2013 Simon Ruijsenaars (Leeds) Calogero-Moser systems: A crossroads in mathematics and physics
- 01 February 2013 Ben Green (Cambridge) On the Sylvester-Gallai theorem
- 08 February 2013 Sylvia Serfaty (Paris 6 and Courant Institute) Coulomb gas, Renormalized energy and Abrikosov lattice
- 15 February 2013 Alan Sokal (New York University and University College London)
Roots $x_k(y)$ of a formal power series $f(x,y) = \displaystyle \sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty a_n(y) \, x^n$, with applications to graph enumeration and $q$-series (Slides available here) - 22 February 2013 Marc Lackenby (Oxford) A polynomial upper bound on Reidemeister moves
- 01 March 2013 Rich Schwartz (Brown University) Thomson's 5-electron problem
- 08 March 2013 Roger Plymen (Southampton) 2 by 2 matrices as stepping-stones
- 15 March 2013
Autumn Term 2012/13
- 05 October 2012 Dwight Barkley (Warwick) Lecturing maths electronically - what I learned from Geometry and Motion
- 12 October 2012 Barbara Fantechi (SISSA, Trieste) Stacky viewpoint on Intersection theory
- 19 October 2012 David Evans (Cardiff) The search for the exotic - subfactors and conformal field theories
- 26 October 2012 Tom Sanders (Oxford) Approximate Groups
- 02 November 2012 Cornelia Drutu (Oxford) On limit spaces and actions of groups
- 09 November 2012 Oliver Jenkinson (Queen Mary, London) Go forth and multiply by 10: digit expansions and optimal inequalities
- 16 November 2012 Roger Heath-Brown (Oxford) Diophantine equations, Algebra, Geometry, Analysis & Logic
- 23 November 2012 Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Crete) On the structure and properties of the equations of nonlinear elasticity
- 30 November 2012 Jon Keating (Bristol) Primes, Polynomials and Random Matrices
- 07 December 2012 - Meeting in lieu of Colloquium: Caroline Series (Warwick) Department Open Meeting: What is Athena Swan all about?