Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM

Winter-Spring 2007

 
Date Place Speaker Title
January 25 Northeastern
509 Lake Hall 		Mikhail Khovanov
Columbia University 		Link homology
February 1 Brandeis
317 Goldsmith 		Howard Masur
University of Illinois at Chicago 		Rational billiards, Fuchsian groups and ergodic theory
February 15 MIT
Room 2-190 		Ravi Vakil
Stanford 		Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: badly-behaved moduli spaces
February 22 Harvard
Science Center D 		Daniel Tataru
University of California, Berkeley 		Long term dynamics for wave and Schroedinger evolutions on a curved background
March 1 Brandeis
317 Goldsmith 		Guido Kings
Universitat Regensburg 		A p-adic analogue of the Borel regulator
March 8 MIT
Room 2-190 		Karen Smith
University of Michigan 		Uniform Results in Algebra and Geometry via Multiplier Ideals
March 15 Northeastern
509 Lake Hall 		Alexander Barvinok
University of Michigan 		Brunn-Minkowski inequalities for contingency tables,integer flows, and related quantities
March 22 MIT
Room 2-190 		Mark Kisin
University of Chicago 		The Fontaine-Mazur conjecture and modular forms
March 29 Brandeis
131 Abelson (NOTE UNUSUAL PLACE) 		Robbert Dijkgraaf
University of Amsterdam 		Quantum Field Theory, D-Modules and Integrable Systems
April 5 Harvard
Science Center D 		Claire Voisin
Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu 		Hodge loci and absolute Hodge classes
April 19 Northeastern
509 Lake Hall 		Raphaël Rouquier
University of Oxford 		Dunkl operators and Hilbert schemes
April 26 Harvard
Science Center D 		Venkatesan Guruswami
University of Washington 		Reed-Solomon codes, low-degree automorphisms, and error-correction with optimal rate
May 3 Harvard
Science Center D 		Akshay Venkatesh
Courant Institute, NYU 		Effective equidistribution on homogeneous spaces
May 10 MIT
Room 2-190 		Manjul Bhargava
Princeton University 		Sums of squares and the "290 theorem"
May 17 MIT
Room 2-190 		Vic Reiner
University of Minnesota 		Invariant theory and a combinatorial phenomenon

The Colloquium is held on Thursday afternoons.
Tea is from 4:00 to 4:30.  Talks are from 4:30 to 5:30.

Colloquium organizers

Brandeis University Edward Goldstein
Harvard University Joachim Krieger
Andreea Nicoara
Danijela Damjanovic
Lior Silberman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kiran Kedlaya  
Denis Auroux 
Northeastern University Andrei Zelevinsky

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