Mathematics Colloquium 2011-12
Organisers: Volker Betz (V.M.Betz@warwick.ac.uk) and 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 2011/12
- 27 April 2012 Marc Timme (Göttingen) Unstable attractors, complex heteroclinic networks and computation by switching
- 04 May 2012 Yuri Tomilov (IM PAN Warsaw) On rates in mean ergodic theorems
- 11 May 2012 Sam Payne (Yale) Nonarchimedean norms in algebraic geometry
- 18 May 2012 Benny Sudakov (UCLA) Induced Matchings, Arithmetic Progressions and Communication
- 25 May 2012 Robert McKay (Warwick) Manufacturing Impact
- 01 June 2012 TBA
- 08 June 2012 Michael Struwe (Zürich) Conformal metrics of prescribed Gauss curvature
- 15 June 2012 Arnaud Chéritat (Toulouse) Open questions in holomorphic dynamics
- 22 June 2012 No Colloquium
- 29 June 2012 No Colloquium
Spring Term 2011/12
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06 January 2012 Yakov Sinai (Princeton) Ergodic Properties of Square-free Numbers
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13 January 2012 Antti Knowles (Harvard) Spectral statistics of large random matrices
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20 January 2012 Jens Marklof (Bristol) From the Lorentz gas to random graphs: new applications of measure rigidity in statistical physics, number theory and combinatorics
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27 January 2012 Sanju Velani (York) Diophantine approximation: the Lebesgue and Hausdorff theories
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03 February 2012 Gerard Besson (Grenoble) Natural maps: old and new
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10 February 2012 Kevin Buzzard (Imperial) The p-adic numbers -- past, present and future - ROOM B3.03
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17 February 2012 James Norris (Cambridge) Hastings-Levitov aggregation in the small particle limit
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24 February 2012 John Jones (Warwick) Exotic spheres and the Kervaire invariant
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02 March 2012 Gui-Qiang Chen (Oxford) Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and Divergence-Measure Fields
- 09 March 2012 Jean Bertoin (Zurich) Coagulation with limited aggregations
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16 March 2012 Christoph Ortner (Warwick) Continuum Elasticity from Molecular Mechanics
Autumn Term 2011/12
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7 October 2011 Martin Hairer (Warwick) Solving the KPZ equation
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14 October 2011 Inna Capdeboscq (Warwick) Finite Simple Groups of medium size
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21 October 2011 Jonathan Bennett (Birmingham) The restriction problem for the Fourier transform
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28 October 2011 Trevor Wooley (Bristol) Vinogradov's mean value theorem, function fields, and moduli spaces
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4 November 2011 Oleg Pikhurko (Warwick) Graph Limits
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11 November 2011 Danny Calegari (Cambridge) Stable commutator length in free groups
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18 November 2011 Sebastian van Strien (Warwick) One-dimensional dynamics: a survey of recent results
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25 November 2011 Ali Alavi (Cambridge) Quantum Chemical Games of Life
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2 December 2011 Darren Crowdy (Imperial) Solving problems in multiply connected domains
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9 December 2011 Takis Souganidis (Chicago) Random homogenization: theory and applications