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 2014/15

• 03 October 2014 Miles Reid (Warwick) The structure of higher dimensional algebraic varieties
• 10 October 2014 John Smillie (Warwick) Closed orbits on polygonal billiard tables
  
• 17 October 2014 Keith Ball (Warwick) Noise sensitivity and Gaussian surface area
  
• 24 October 2014 Alex Veselov (Loughborough) From hyperplane arrangements to Deligne-Mumford moduli spaces: Kohno-Drinfeld way
  
• 31 October 2014 Michael Berry (H H Wills Physics Laboratory) Curl forces and beyond
  
• 07 November 2014 Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge) Geometry of Random Surfaces
• 14 November 2014 Wolfgang Lueck (Bonn) Introduction to $L^2$-cohomology
  
• 21 November 2014 Trevor Wooley (Bristol) A translation-invariant perspective on arithmetic (and) harmonic analysis
  
• 28 November 2014 Reidun Twarok (York) Viruses and geometry –new insights into virus structure and the mechanisms underpinning infection
• 05 December 2014 Impact Case Studies
  

Spring Term 2014/15

• 09 January 2015 David Damanik (Rice) Cantor sets and Cantor measures
  
• 16 January 2015 Jürgen Berndt (KCL) Symmetries in Riemannian Geometry
  
• 23 January 2015 Robert MacKay (Warwick) A kinematic explanation for gamma-ray bursts
  
• 30 January 2015 Felix Fischer (Cambridge) Optimal Impartial Selection
  
• 06 February 2015 Jean-Pierre Eckmann (Geneve) Statics and dynamics of 2D and 3D topological glasses
  
• 13 February 2015 Iain Gordon (Edinburgh) Wronskians, Galois Theory and Schubert Calculus
  
• 20 February 2015 Mark Gross (Cambridge) Mirror symmetry and tropical geometry
  
• 27 February 2015 Jürg Fröhlich (ETH) ABC in Quantum Mechanics
• 06 March 2015 Konstantin Ardakov (Oxford) Localisation of p-adic representations of p-adic Lie groups
• 13 March 2015 Mark Haskins (Imperial) A brief history of G_2
  
• 20 March 2015 Frances Kirwan (Oxfrord) Non-reductive geometric invariant theory and applications in algebraic and hyperkahler geometry
  

Summer Term 2014/15

• 24 April 2015
• 01 May 2015 Gregory Seregin (Oxford) Certain Classes of Ancient Solutions to Navier-Stokes equations
  
• 08 May 2015 Anton Bovier (Bonn) Extremes of Gaussian Processes on Trees
  
• 15 May 2015 Wendelin Werner (ETH) An elementary approach to the renormalization flow - *** IN ROOM B3.03 ***
• 22 May 2015 David Brydges (UBC) The Coulomb gas in two dimensions
  
• 29 May 2015 Thierry Levy (Paris 6) Eigenvalues of Hermitian matrices
  
• 05 June 2015 Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo) Derived Mckay correspondence for finite Abelian group quotients
  
• 12 June 2015 First Year PhD Students' Talks
• 19 June 2015 Ben Green (Oxford) On the probability that a random permutation fixes a set of size k
• 26 June 2015 No Colloquium (BBQ)