Spring 2011 | 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 2011

Date	Place	Speaker	Title
January 27	Northeastern 509 Lake Hall	Sergei Gukov Caltech and MPI	A piece of 21st century mathematics that didn't make it into 20th century physics
February 17	MIT Room 2-190	Alexander Holroyd Theory Group, Microsoft Research	Random Sorting Networks
February 24	Northeastern 509 Lake Hall	Joseph Mitchell Stony Brook	Approximation Algorithms for Traveling Salesman Problem with Neighborhoods and Related Geometric Network Optimization Problems
March 10	Brandeis 317 Goldsmith	Wolfgang Schmidt University of Colorado at Boulder	Diophantine Approximation and parametric Geometry of Numbers
March 17	MIT Room 2-190	Carolyn Gordon Dartmouth College	Constructions of Sound-Alike Manifolds
March 24	Harvard Science Center D	Matilde Marcolli Caltech	Quantum statistical mechanics and anabelian geometry
March 31	MIT Room 2-190	János Kollár Princeton University	Continuous linear combinations of polynomials
April 7	Northeastern 509 Lake Hall	Leonid Parnovski University College London	THE LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED
April 14	Harvard Science Center D	Thomas Haines University of Maryland	Endoscopic transfer of the Bernstein center
April 28	Brandeis 317 Goldsmith	John Etnyre Georgia Tech	Invariants of embeddings and immersions via contact geometry
May 5	Harvard Science Center D	Florian Pop University of Pennsylvania	On the Ihara/Oda-Matsumoto Conjecture

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	Refik Inanc Baykur Lior Fishman
Harvard University	Joseph Rabinoff Yu-Jong Tzeng Kirsten Wickelgren Xinwen Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Mark Behrens Ben Brubaker Scott Sheffield
Northeastern University	Valerio Toledano Laredo Jonathan Weitsman Andrei Zelevinsky

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