Organisers: Ed Brambley and Adam Epstein

Additional colloquia, titles and abstracts will be added as details become available.

Colloquia take place on Friday afternoons at 4.00pm on MS Teams. 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 2020/21

• 09 October 2020: Martin Lotz (Warwick) Concentration of Measure, Integral Geometry and Optimization
• 16 October 2020: Minhyong Kim (Warwick) Recent progress on Diophantine Equations in Two Variables
• 23 October 2020: James Sprittles (Warwick) Noisy Nanofluidics
• 30 October 2020: Hong Liu (Warwick) Sublinear expander, cycles and graph minors
• 06 November 2020: Felix Schulze (Warwick) Applications of geometric flows through singularities
• 13 November 2020: Vedran Sohinger (Warwick) The nonlinear Schrödinger equation, Gibbs measures, and many-body quantum mechanics
• 20 November 2020: William Parnell (Manchester) Elastostatic cloaking, low frequency elastic wave transparency and neutral inclusions​
• 27 November 2020: Ronald Solomon (Ohio State) Highlights from the Classification of the Finite Simple Groups
• 04 December 2020: Thomas Gauthier​ (Ecole Polytechnique) Thick bifurcation loci in holomorphic dynamics​
• 11 December 2020: Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College) Entropies of postcritically finite polynomials

Spring Term 2020/21

• 15 January 2021: Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State) Raytracing and raymarching simulations of non-euclidean geometries​
• 22 January 2021: Tim Sullivan (Warwick) Probability and Numerics: A Modern Retrospective
• 29 January 2021: Agnese Barbensi (Oxford) Knotted Biopolymers
• 05 February 2021: Open Mic night due to last-minute cancellation
• 12 February 2021: Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zurich) Computational Hardness of Hypothesis Testing and Quiet Plantings
• 19 February 2021: Rachel Newton (Reading) Diophantine equations and when to quit trying to solve them
• 26 February 2021: Lisa Carbone (Rutgers) A Lie group analog for the monster Lie algebra
• 05 March 2021: Mario Bonk (UCLA) Fractals and the dynamics of Thurston maps
• 12 March 2021: Linda Cummings (New Jersey) Dewetting and dielectrowetting in thin films of nematic liquid crystals
• 19 March 2021: Jennifer Balakrishnan (Boston University) Rational points on curves and quadratic Chabauty

Summer Term 2020/21

• 30 April 2021: Benedikt Loewe (Cambridge) Analysis in non-Archimedean fields
• 07 May 2021: Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford) Topological Deep Learning
• 14 May 2021: ♀ Women in Maths day lecture ♀ Elise Goujard (Bordeaux) Geometry of large genus flat surfaces
• 21 May 2021: Matt Keeling (Warwick) COVID-19: Mathematical Modelling from Warwick
• 28 May 2021: Greg McShane (Fourier) Markoff numbers, algebra, combinatorics and geometry
• 04 June 2021: Melody Chan (Brown) The top-weight rational cohomology of A_g
• 11 June 2021: Double bill: Adam Townsend (Durham) If you think it's fun, they'll think it's fun and Phil Jemmett (WMG) Get Your Message Across
• 18 June 2021: Michael Ortiz (Caltech) Model-Free Data-Driven Science – Cutting out the middleman
  
• 25 June 2021: Victoria Gitman (CUNY) The many universes of modern set theory
• 02 July 2021: Rohini Ramadas (Brown) Dynamically special loci in the space of self-maps