Each colloquium talk will be followed by tea in the same room, from 3:30 to 4:00pm.
Dates of colloquia are also displayed on this Google calendar.

The UW-PIMS Colloquium is sponsored by the UW Mathematics Department
and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.

Previous talks this year
(Videos can be found in the Colloquium Video Archive)

Friday, October 5th at 2:30pm in SIG 225:

Matthew Kahle of Ohio State University (speaker's website)

Topology of Random Flag Complexes

Friday, November 16th at 2:30pm in SIG 225:

Max Warshauer of Texas State University (speaker's website)

Collaborations Between University Math Departments and Public Schools

Friday, January 18th at 2:30pm in DEN 216:

Mathias Drton of the University of Washington (Statistics) (speaker's website)

Applications of Algebraic Geometry in Statistics

Tuesday, January 22nd at 2:30pm in LOW 101:

Reinier Bröker of Brown University (speaker's website)

Geometric applications of class field theory

Friday, January 25th at 2:30pm in LOW 102:

Fredrik Viklund of Columbia University (speaker's website)

On geometric properties of the Schramm-Loewner evolution

Monday, January 28th at 2:30pm in THO 135:

Katya Krupchyk of the University of Helsinki (speaker's website)

Inverse boundary value problems for elliptic operators

Tuesday, January 29th at 2:30pm in MEB 246:

Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy of Cornell University (speaker's website)

Slope and geometry in variational mathematics

Friday, February 1st at 2:30pm in LOW 102:

Thomas Rothvoß of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (speaker's website)

Approximating Bin Packing within O(log OPT * log log OPT) bins

Monday, February 4th at 2:30pm in THO 135:

Mark Behrens of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (speaker's website)

Exotic spheres and topological modular forms

Friday, February 22nd at 2:30pm in DEN 216:

Gerald Folland of the University of Washington (speaker's website)

From the Applicable to the Abstruse: An Example in Representation Theory

Wednesday, March 20th at 2:30pm in CMU 230:

Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Data Scientist at Johnson Research Labs

How Math is Used Outside Academia

Friday, May 10th at 2:30pm in DEM 004:

S.R.Srinivasa Varadhan of New York University's Courant Institute (speaker's website)

Counting Graphs

Friday, May 17th at 2:30pm in DEM 004:

Yuval Peres, Principal Researcher and Theory Group Manager at Microsoft Research (speaker's website)

Search games and Optimal Kakeya Sets

Archives of Previous Years

Archive of 2012-2013 colloquia         Archive of 2011-2012 colloquia
Archive of 2010-2011 colloquia         Archive of 2009-2010 colloquia
Archive of 2008-2009 colloquia         Archive of 2007-2008 colloquia
Archive of 2006-2007 colloquia         Archive of 2005-2006 colloquia
Archive of 2004-2005 colloquia         Archive of 2003-2004 colloquia
Archive of 2002-2003 colloquia         Archive of 2001-2002 colloquia
Archive of 2000-2001 colloquia         Archive of 1999-2000 colloquia
Archive of 1998-1999 colloquia