Friday, May 18th at 2:30pm in MEB 238:

Bruce Reznick of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (speaker's website)

The Secret Lives of Polynomial Identities

2012-2013 Colloquia

Friday, October 5th at 2:30pm in (room TBA):

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

(Title to be announced.)
 

Friday, November 2nd at 2:30pm in (room TBA):

Ioannis Karatzas of Columbia University (speaker's website)

(Title to be announced.)

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:

Friday, October 14th at 2:30pm in MEB 238:

Joel Spencer of New York University (speaker's website)

Two Needles in Exponential Haystacks
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Tuesday, November 8th at 2:30pm in MEB 236:

Greg Galloway of the University of Miami (speaker's website)

On the Topology of Black Holes
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Friday, January 13th at 2:30pm in DEN 216:

Kristin Lauter of Microsoft Research and UW (speaker's website)

Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Applications
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Friday, February 17th at 2:30pm in SMI 205:

Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study (speaker's website)

Gauge Theory and Khovanov Homology
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Friday, March 9th at 2:30pm in DEN 216:

Jonathan Brundan of the University of Oregon (speaker's website)

Representations of General Linear Lie Superalgebras
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Friday, April 6th at 2:30pm in CHL 015:

Christopher Hacon of the University of Utah (speaker's website)

Geometry of Varieties of General Type
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Colloquium Video Archive