Organiser (terms 2 and 3): 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 2015/16

• 25 September 2015 Eric Vanden Eijnden (Courant Institute, New York) The Geometry of Rare Events
  
• 02 October 2015 No Colloquium
• 09 October 2015 Gregory Falkovich (Weizmann Institute of Science) Water pipes and optic fibers, long things of physics
• 16 October 2015 No Colloquium
  
• 23 October 2015 Marta Mazzocco (Loughborough) Painleve’s equations, cluster algebras and quantisation
  
• 30 October 2015 Daniel Wise (McGill and IHP) Counting cycles in graphs
  
• 06 November 2015 David Firth (Warwick Statistics) Journal rankings: Why (and how) should we care?
• 13 November 2015 **MS.01** Ian Stewart (Warwick) Thermoregulation in Possums and the Wedderburn-Malcev Theorem

  [we will also celebrate Ian's retirement, belateldy, and 70th birthday, also belatedly]

• 20 November 2015 Christian Böhning (Warwick) Birational automorphism groups and dynamical degrees

• 27 November 2015 Andrew Fowler (Oxford and Limerick) Predicting the unpredictable: how to explain statistical distributions in 'deterministic' systems
  
• 04 December 2015 José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata (Imperial) Collective Behavior Models: Mathematical Perspectives

Spring Term 2015/16

• 22 January 2016 Walter Dean (Warwick - Philosophy) Mathematical existence and the arithmetized completeness theorem
  
• 29 January 2016 Dirk Kreimer (Humboldt) Cutkosky and the cubical chain complex
  
• 05 February 2016 Julia Wolf (Bristol) Quadratic Fourier analysis: why and when linear phases are not enough
• 12 February 2016 Marie-Therese Wolfram (Warwick) Collective dynamics: modeling, analysis and simulations
  
• 19 February 2016 No Colloquium
  
• 26 February 2016 Arnaud Chéritat (Toulouse) Straightening the square
  
• 04 March 2016 Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki / Newton Institute) Turing, Gödel and some new Inner Models of Set Theory
  
• 11 March 2016 Zemer Kosloff (Warwick) Symmetric Birkhoff sums in infinite ergodic theory
  
• 18 March 2016 Gernot Akemann (Bielefeld) Random matrices - an overview and recent developments
  

Summer Term 2015/16

• 29 April 2016 David Epstein (Warwick) Careless Inferiors
  
• 06 May 2016 No Colloquium
  
• 13 May 2016 Eleanor Robson (UCL) Babylonian Village Numeracy, c 1600 BC
  
• 20 May 2016 Phil Boyland (University of Florida) When Topology Forces Dynamics
• 27 May 2016 Gavin Brown (Warwick) Moebius strips and flops and flips
  
• 03 June 2016 Miklos Abert (Alfréd Rényi) Groups and graph convergence
  
• 10 June 2016 Tony Lelievre (ENPC Paris) Metastability: a journey from stochastic processes to semiclassical analysis
  
• 17 June 2016 First Year PhD Students' Talks
• 24 June 2016
  
• 01 July 2016 Department BBQ - no colloquium