Pure Math Colloquia 2018

Monday, December 3, 2018, 4:00 pm

Sven Raum, Stockholm University

"Superrigidity for group operator algebras"


Monday, November 5, 2018, 4:00 pm

Michael Coons, University of Newcastle, Australia

"Mahler’s methods: theorems, speculations and variations"


Monday, October 29, 2018, 4:00 pm

Sobhan Seyfaddini, CNRS, Jussieu

"The Arnold conjecture and Hamiltonian homeomorphisms"  


Monday, October 22, 2018, 4:00 pm

Thomas Lam, University of Michigan

"The mirror theorem for minuscule flag varieties"


Monday, October 15, 2018, 4:00 pm

Navaratnam Sri Namachchivaya, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Multi-scale Dynamics and Information"


Monday, September 17, 2018, 4:00 pm

Christian Rosendal, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Geometries of topological groups"


Friday, June 15, 2018, 3:00 pm

Anand Pillay, University of Notre Dame

"Combinatorics and pseudofinite groups"


Special Colloquium

Monday, May 28, 2018, 4:00 pm

Malabika Pramanik, University of British Columbia

"Configurations in sets big and small"


Monday, April 9, 2018, 4:00 pm

Hanfeng Li, SUNY Buffalo

"Mean dimension and von Neumann-Lueck rank"


Monday, February 12, 2018, 4:00 pm

​Omer Tamuz, Caltech

"The Poisson boundary, strong amenability and the infinite conjugacy class property"


Monday, February 5, 2018, 4:00 pm

Boris Khesin, University of Toronto

"Integrability and non-integrability in pentagram maps"


Monday, January 22, 2018, 4:00 pm

Ruodu Wang, Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo

"Mathematics of the Financial Crisis: Aggregation, Measurement, and Optimization of Risks with Model Uncertainty"


Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:00 pm

Dennis The, The University of Tromso

"Exceptionally simple PDE"