Fall 2003 | Brandeis–Harvard–MIT–Northeastern Joint Mathematics Colloquium

Brandeis–Harvard–MIT–Northeastern Joint Mathematics Colloquium

Joint Mathematics Colloquium

Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM

Fall 2003

Date	Place	Speaker	Title
September 18	MIT Room 2-190	Rafe Mazzeo Stanford University	Positive scalar curvature and Poincaré-Einstein fillings
October 2	Northeastern 135 Shillman	Ken Brown Cornell University	Applications of ring theory to probability
October 9	Harvard Science Center D	Jim Cogdell Oklahoma State University
October 16	Brandeis 317 Goldsmith	Ehud de Shalit Hebrew University of Jerusalem	P-adic hyperplane arrangements and harmonic analysis on buildings
October 23	MIT Room 2-190	Nolan Wallach University of California, San Diego	Some mathematical applications of shuffling
October 30	Brandeis 317 Goldsmith	Stavros Garoufalidis Georgia Institute of Technology	What is a holonomic function? Zeilberger meets Jones and Thurston
November 13	Harvard Science Center D	William Minicozzi Johns Hopkins University	Double spiral staircases in embedded minimal disks
November 20	Harvard Science Center D	Andrei Okounkov Princeton University	Crystal shapes and algebraic curves
December 4	MIT Room 2-190	Edward Frenkel University of California, Berkeley	Local Langlands correspondence for Kac-Moody algebras
December 11	Brandeis 317 Goldsmith	Harald Helfgott Yale University	Elliptic curves, square-free numbers and class groups

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	Ruth Charney	charney@brandeis.edu
Harvard University	Alexander Braverman Weiyang Qiu	braval@math.harvard.edu qiu@math.harvard.edu
MIT	Hubert Bray András Vasy	bray@math.mit.edu andras@math.mit.edu
Northeastern University	Maxim Braverman	maxim@neu.edu

Colloquium archive

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