Math Department Colloquium

This year, there will be two special series of math talks within the usual departmental colloquium.

The ADVANCE Colloquium Series: This series of talks by distinguished women mathematicians is supported by UW's ADVANCE grant from the NSF. The main purpose of these talks is to showcase high quality research by a diverse set of female mathematicians. The visits include a strong mentoring component for students and faculty. Each speaker will visit for several days and give an introductory talk for graduate students on Monday and the colloquium talk on Tuesday. The speakers scheduled thus far are Angela Gibney (University of Pennsylvania, November 9), Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University, November 23), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (Faculté des Sciences de Paris and l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie, February 15) and Ulrike Tillman (Oxford University, April 5).

Great Ideas Series: Continuing from last year, this series features expository talks by UW faculty that explain an important idea or open problem in mathematics to a wide audience. There were six talks in this series last year: Jerry Folland, Steffen Rohde, Anne Greenbaum, Dan Pollack, Sándor Kovács and Steve Mitchell. This year we will have four talks in this series: Boris Solomyak (November 30), Eric Babson (March 8), Gunther Uhlmann (April 26), and Krzysztof Burdzy (May 31).

The full schedule can be seen on the colloquium web page.

Rekha Thomas