Spring 2009 | Brandeis–Harvard–MIT–Northeastern Joint Mathematics Colloquium

Brandeis–Harvard–MIT–Northeastern Joint Mathematics Colloquium

Joint Mathematics Colloquium

Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM

Winter-Spring 2009

Date	Place	Speaker	Title
January 29	Northeastern 509 Lake	Sergey Yakovenko Weizmann Institute of Science	Infinitesimal Hilbert's 16th problem
February 5	Brandeis 317 Goldsmith	David Fisher Indiana University	Coarse geometry of solvable groups
February 12	Northeastern 509 Lake	Thomas Hales University of Pittsburgh	Introduction to Formal Proof
February 19	Harvard Science Center D	Alexander Goncharov Brown University	The quantum dilogarithm and quantization of cluster varieties
February 26	Harvard Science Center D	Vaughan F.R. Jones University of California, Berkeley	Large N limit of random matrices, free probability and the graded algebra of a planar algebra
March 5	Brandeis 317 Goldsmith	William Meeks University of Massachusetts, Amherst	The classical theory of minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces with emphasis on uniqueness of examples of Euler, Delaunay, Scherk and Riemann
March 12	MIT Room 2-190	Sergiu Klainerman Princeton University	On the mathematical magic of Black Holes
March 19	Harvard Science Center D	Zoltan Szabo Princeton University	Heegaard diagrams and invariants for three-manifolds
March 26	Northeastern 509 Lake	Corrado De Concini Università di Roma "La Sapienza"	Vector Partition functions and the index of transversally elliptic operators
April 2	Brandeis 317 Goldsmith	Lauren Williams Harvard University	Positivity results for cluster algebras from surfaces
April 9	Harvard Science Center D	Henryk Iwaniec Rutgers University	Is there a ghost in the house of prime numbers?
April 23	MIT Room 2-190	Yuval Peres Microsoft Research	Fair allocations to random points, using the stable marriage algorithm, Riemann mapping, and Newtonian gravity
May 7	MIT Room 2-190	Brian White Stanford University	Formation of Singularities in Minimal Surfaces

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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