Fall 2008 | 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 2008

Date	Place	Speaker	Title
September 4	MIT Room 4-237	David Kazhdan Hebrew University, Jerusalem	The fundamental lemma and its applications
September 11	MIT Room 4-237	Mark Gross University of California, San Diego	The tropical vertex
September 18	MIT Room 4-237	Jordan Ellenberg University of Wisconsin	Stability theorems for homology of Hurwitz spaces
September 25	Northeastern 509 Lake Hall	Giovanni Forni University of Maryland, College Park	Quantitative equidistribution of nilflows and Weyl sums
October 2	MIT Room 4-237	Wendelin Werner Universite Paris-Sud 11	Are frontiers always symmetric?
October 16	Brandeis 317 Goldsmith	Yves Benoist Université Paris-Sud 11	Invariant subsets of homogeneous spaces
October 23	Harvard Science Center D	Mikhail Khovanov Columbia University	Categorification of quantum groups
October 30	Harvard Science Center D	Jean Bourgain IAS, Princeton	THE LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED
November 6	Northeastern 509 Lake Hall	Bao Châu Ngô IAS and Université Paris-Sud 11	Fundamental lemma and Hitchin fibration
November 13	Brandeis 317 Goldsmith	Carl-Friedrich Boedigheimer Universitat Bonn	Pseudo-simplicial groups and moduli spaces of surfaces
November 20	Northeastern 509 Lake Hall	Alexander Braverman Brown University	Towards Langlands duality for affine Kac-Moody groups
December 4	Brandeis 317 Goldsmith	Dan Margalit Tufts University	Dimensions of mapping class groups
December 11	Harvard Science Center D	Lai-Sang Young Courant Institute, NYU	Markov towers over chaotic dynamical systems

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	Bong Lian
Harvard University	Danijela Damjanovic Ben Weinkove John Duncan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Kiran Kedlaya Denis Auroux Ben Brubaker
Northeastern University	Valerio Toledano Laredo Andrei Zelevinsky

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