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Since the fall of 2005, Basic Notions seminars were replaced by Faculty Colloquia, in which faculty members and sometimes guests of the department will give general talks on areas of research that interest them. These talks are aimed at beginning graduate students, but everyone is welcome.

Spring 2008



  Date Time Room Speaker Title   Date Time Room Speaker Title
../peoplephotos/visitors/s_vafa.jpg Mon April 14, 2008 3 PM SC 507 Cumrun Vafa Topological Strings ../peoplephotos/junior/s_desole.jpg Mon April 7, 2008 3 PM SC 507 Alberto de Sole Hamiltonian equation, their integrals of motion and related algebraic structure.
../peoplephotos/senior/s_hopkins.jpg Mon March 31, 2008 3 PM SC 507 Michael Hopkins Algebraic topology of topological field theories ../peoplephotos/visitors/s_kobayashi.jpg Mon March 17, 2008 3 PM SC 507 Toshiyuki Kobayashi Existence Problem of Compact Locally Symmetric Spaces
../peoplephotos/junior/s_weinkove.jpg Mon March 10, 2008 3 PM SC 507 Ben Weinkove The Calabi-Yau equation ../peoplephotos/senior/s_nowak.jpg Mon March 3, 2008 3 PM SC 507 Martin Nowak Evolutionary Dynamics

Fall 2007



  Date Time Room Speaker Title   Date Time Room Speaker Title
../peoplephotos/senior/s_taubes.jpg Mon Oct 1, 2007 3:30 PM (a one time shift) SC 507 Clifford Taubes Smooth Manifolds in Dimension 4 ../peoplephotos/senior/s_taylor.jpg Mon Oct 15, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Richard Taylor Shimura Varieties and Rapoport-Zink Spaces
../peoplephotos/senior/s_harris.jpg Mon Oct 22, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Joe Harris Uniformity of Rational Points on Curves ../peoplephotos/visitors/s_slava_krushkal.jpg Mon Oct 29, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Slava Krushkal The chromatic polynomial, the golden ratio, and quantum topology
../peoplephotos/senior/s_gross.jpg Mon Nov 5, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Dick Gross On the parameters of discrete series ../peoplephotos/visitors/s_seidel.jpg Mon Nov 19, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Paul Seidel (MIT) Pairs of Pants
../peoplephotos/junior/s_damjanovic.jpg Mon Dec 3, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Danijela Damjanovic Stability of some Abelian actions ../peoplephotos/visitors/s_behrens.jpg Mon Dec 10, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Mark Behrens (MIT) Stable homotopy groups of spheres and modular forms

Spring 2007



  Date Time Room Speaker Title   Date Time Room Speaker Title
../peoplephotos/senior/s_jaffe.jpg Mon Feb 5, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Arthur Jaffe Quantization and Renormalization ../peoplephotos/senior/s_mcmullen.jpg Mon Feb 12, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Curt McMullen Thermodynamics, dimension and moduli of Riemann surfaces
../peoplephotos/senior/s_elkies.jpg Mon Feb 26, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Noam Elkies Belyi functions ../peoplephotos/senior/s_sacks.jpg Mon Mar 5, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Gerald Sacks Differentially closed fields
../peoplephotos/senior/s_kazhdan.jpg Mon Mar 12, 2007 3 PM SC 507 David Kazhdan Poisson summation formula and its applications to the representation theory ../peoplephotos/junior/s_duncan.jpg Mon Mar 19, 2007 3 PM SC 507 John Duncan Vertex algebra and elliptic genera
../peoplephotos/visitors/s_stroock.jpg Mon Apr 2, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Dan Stroock Most of DeGiorgi-Moser-Nash was already in Nash ../peoplephotos/senior/s_mazur.jpg Mon Apr 9, 2007 3 PM SC 507 Barry Mazur Transcendence conjectures about units in algebraic number fields and deformation problems

Fall 2006



  Date Time Room Speaker Title   Date Time Room Speaker Title
../peoplephotos/senior/s_taubes.jpg Mon, Oct 2, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Cliff Taubes Does Dirac have a tin ear? ../peoplephotos/senior/s_kronheimer.jpg Mon Oct 16, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Peter Kronheimer Three-manifolds, four-manifolds and Floer homology
../peoplephotos/junior/s_weinkove.jpg Mon Oct 23, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Ben Weinkove Moment maps and geometry ../peoplephotos/senior/s_sternberg.jpg Mon Oct 30, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Shlomo Sternberg The Ehrhart function for symbols and a generalization of Euler's constant
../peoplephotos/senior/s_harris.jpg Mon Nov 6, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Joseph Harris Progress on algebraic curves ../peoplephotos/junior/s_dasgupta.jpg Mon Nov 13, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Samit Dasgupta Conjectures on Hilbert's 12th Problem
../peoplephotos/senior/s_yau.jpg Mon Nov 20, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Shing-Tung Yau Hermitian metrics on complex manifolds and vector bundles ../peoplephotos/senior/s_htyau.jpg Mon Nov 27, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Horng-Tzer Yau Brownian motion in quantum mechanics
../peoplephotos/junior/s_helm.jpg Mon Dec 4 3 PM SC 507 David Helm Reduction of Shimura varieties and the Langlands program ../peoplephotos/junior/s_williams.jpg Mon Dec 11 3 PM SC 507 Lauren Williams From total positivity on the Grassmannian to the asymmetric exclusion process
../peoplephotos/senior/s_gross.jpg Mon Dec 18, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Benedict Gross Binary cubic forms and ternary quadratic forms: classifying the orbits of some group actions

Spring 2006



  Date Time Room Speaker Title   Date Time Room Speaker Title
../peoplephotos/senior/s_mazur.jpg Mon, Feb 6, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Barry Mazur Functional Equations, signs, and their implications [PDF] ../peoplephotos/senior/s_gross.jpg Mon, Feb 13, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Benedikt Gross Arithmetic on elliptic curves: an update on Tate's Inventiones paper
../peoplephotos/senior/s_sacks.jpg Mon, Mar 6, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Gerald Sacks Vaught's Conjecture ../peoplephotos/senior/s_schmid.jpg Mon, Mar 13, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Wilfried Schmid Automorphic distributions and L-functions
../peoplephotos/senior/s_nowak.jpg Mon, Apr 10, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Martin Nowak Five rules for the evolution of cooperation ../peoplephotos/senior/s_taylor.jpg Mon, Apr 24, 2006 3 PM SC 507 Richard Taylor Elliptic curves and L-functions

Fall 2005



  Date Time Room Speaker Title   Date Time Room Speaker Title
../peoplephotos/senior/s_mcmullen.jpg Mon, Sep 26, 2005 3 PM SC 507 Curt McMullen Renormalization ../peoplephotos/senior/s_hopkins.jpg Mon, Oct 3, 2005 3 PM SC 507 Mike Hopkins Homotopy groups
../peoplephotos/senior/s_harris.jpg Mon, Oct 17, 2005 3 PM SC 507 Joe Harris The Brill-Noether theorem: representation theory for curves ../peoplephotos/senior/s_gaitsgory.jpg Mon, Oct 24, 2005 3 PM SC 507 Dennis Gaitsgory Affine Kac-Moody algebras and their representations
../peoplephotos/senior/s_siu.jpg Mon, Oct 31, 2005 3 PM SC 507 Yum-Tong Siu Multiplier ideals -- a new technique linking analysis and algebraic geometry ../peoplephotos/senior/s_yau.jpg Mon, Nov 21, 2005 3 PM SC 507 S.-T. Yau Mathematical problems in general relativity
../peoplephotos/senior/s_htyau.jpg Mon, Dec 12, 2005 3 pm SC 507 Horng-Tzer Yau Mathematical problems in quantum physics
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