Department Colloquium

The department colloquium is held 2-3 times per semester, usually on Wednesday afternoons at 15:15. The colloquium is organized by Magdalena Musat.

Upcoming Colloquia:

4 December, 2024

Eva Miranda, Professor at Universitat Politecnica Catalunya and CRM, Barcelona, and Humboldt Professor at Universität zu Köln.

Title: TBA

(Postponed)

Isabelle Gallagher, Professor at l’École Normale Supérieure de Paris

Recipient of ESI Medal 2023

Title: TBA

Past Colloquia:

	25 October 2023 Tim Austin (Regius Professor at the University of Warwick) Title: New developments in entropy and ergodic theory
	12 December 2022 Carsten Thomassen (Professor at DTU) Title: Graphs, Networks and algorithms (see photos)
	4 March 2020 Alison Etheridge (Professor of Probability, Head of Department of Statistics, Oxford University) Title: Modelling evolution
	18 December 2019 Eero Saksman (Professor, Helsinki University) Title: In the footsteps of Harald Bohr and Børge Jessen - searching for randomness in the Riemann zeta function.
	20 March 2019 Arthur Jaffe (L.T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science, Harvard University) Title: The Story Behind the Millennium Prize Problems in Mathematics
	12 December 2018 Gilles Pisier (Professor at Universite Paris Sorbonne and Distinguished Professor, A.G. and M.E. Owen Chair of Mathematics, Texas A&M) Title: The saga of Sidon sets
	21 November 2018 Bernd Sturmfels (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig) Title: The Geometry of Gaussoids
	23 May 2018 Charles Bennett (Professor, IBM) Title: Forging the culture of quantum information science
$Tobias Colding$	18 September, 2017 Tobias Holck Colding (Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mathematics), MIT Title: Regularity questions in geometric flows
	4 October, 2016 Simon Tavaré (Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Professor), University of Cambridge Title: Is stochastic modeling useful in cancer research?
	4 May, 2016 Alex Lubotzky (Maurice and Clara Weil chair in mathematics), Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University Title: High dimensional expanders: from Ramanujan graphs to Ramanujan complexes.
	15 March, 2016 Peter McCullagh (John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor), Department of Statistics, University of Chicago Title: Empirical phenomena and universal laws
	10 November 2015 Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Title: The Mathematical Objection: Turing, Gödel, and Penrose on the Mind
	26 May 2015 Daniel Stroock (MIT) Title: Some elementary Application of Gaussian Measures to Analysis Stroock SLIDES from the talk.
	5 May 2015 Barry Simon (Caltech) Tales of Our Forefathers SLIDES from the talk.
	20 January 2015 Patrick Hayden (Stanford University) Quantum Information as Asymptotic Geometry.
	11 November 2014 Günter M. Ziegler ( Freie Universität Berlin). The story of 3N points in a plane.
	30 September 2014 Peter Teichner (Max Planck Institute & UC Berkeley). 4 manifolds revisited.
	12 June 2014 Alicia Dickenstein (University of Buenos Aires). Computational algebraic geometry and biochemical reaction networks.
	29 April 2014 Sy David Friedman (University of Vienna). The Current State of Foundations of Set Theory.
	18 March 2014 Steffen Lauritzen (Oxford University). Gaussian Graphical Models with Symmetry.
	11 February 2014 Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M). On Random Groups of Intermediate Growth.