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Colloquium Schedule 2010-2011

The colloquium takes place on Thursdays from 15:30 to 16:30, in room 611 of the Wiskunde building (campus De Uithof) Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht. The lecture is preceded by coffee, tea, and cookies from 15.00 to 15.30, in the same room.


If you will be giving a talk in the colloquium, please take some time to read the guidelines for speakers.




September 2010

Sep 16, 2010 Bas Janssens (UU) Bundles with a Lift of Infinitesimal Diffeomorphisms
   
Sep 23, 2010 Jeroen Sijsling (UU) Canonical models for (1;e)-curves
   
Sep 30, 2010 Chris Haulk (UC Berkeley) De Finetti-type theorems
   


October 2010  

Oct   7, 2010 Sebastian Walcher (Aachen) Invariant sets forced by symmetry
   
Oct 14, 2010 Ingo Runkel (Hamburg) Topological field theory and centres of algebras
   
Oct 21, 2010 Dan Sorensen (Rice University, Houston) Applications of DEIM in Nonlinear Model Reduction
   
Oct 28, 2010 Carles Casacuberta (Barcelona) Why cohomology is more complex than homology: a set-theoretical approach to open problems in algebraic topology
   


November 2010 

Nov   4, 2010 Alexandra Babenko (UU) Oracle posterior rates in the white noise model
   
Nov 11, 2010 Andrey Dorogovtsev (Kiev) Stochastic flows and random semigroups
   
Nov 18, 2010 Avner Shaked (Bonn) A herd of prey, its leader and a predator
   
Nov 25, 2010 Alexander Givental (UC Berkeley)

Location: Aardwetenschappen Kleine Zaal
Celebrating the work of Vladimir Arnold

2 x 45 minutes -- MONNA LECTURE
   


December 2010 

Dec   2, 2010 Arthemy Kiselev (UU) Additional chapter of the theory of uniform rectilinear motion
   
Dec   9, 2010 Rafael Torres (Oxford) Four-dimensional beauty
   


January 2011  

Jan 27, 2011 Alex Marynych (Kiev) Random recursive combinatorial structures
   


February 2011 

Feb   3, 2011 Frans Oort (UU) Algebraic curves and their Jacobians
   
Feb 10, 2011 Evgeny Verbitskiy (Leiden) Dimers, sandpiles and algebraic dynamics
   
Feb 17, 2011 Serge Fehr (CWI) Entropic quantum uncertainty relations
   
Feb 24, 2011 Joop Kolk (UU) Hans Duistermaat: the Man and his Mathematics
   


March 2011    

Mar   3, 2011 Arthur Bartels (Muenster) The Farrell-Jones Conjecture
   
Mar 10, 2011 Tom Ward (University of East Anglia) Dynamical invariants for group automorphisms
   
Mar 17, 2011 Jaap van Oosten (UU) Type Theory and Homotopy Theory
   
Mar 24, 2011 Onno Bokhove (Universiteit Twente) On the beach: maths of breaking waves
   
Mar 31, 2011 Aharon Ben-Tal (Technion, Haifa) Some remedies for intractable optimization problems
   


April 2011    

Apr   7, 2011 Barbara Jaworski (Mathematics Education Centre, Loughborough University and Freudenthal Institute UU: F.C. Donders Chair) Teaching mathematics at university level: mathematics, didactics, pedagogy and research
   
Apr 14, 2011 No staffcolloquium today (i.v.m. Nederlands Mathematisch Congres in Twente)
   
Apr 21, 2011 Steven Wepster (UU) Preparing a translation of Ludolph van Ceulen's "Vanden Circkel"
   
Apr 28, 2011 Job Kuit (UU) Radon transformation on reductive symmetric spaces: support theorems
   


May 2011      

May   5, 2011 No staff colloquium today (bevrijdingsdag)
   
May 12, 2011 Karl Petersen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Invariant measures and combinatorics of some nonstationary adic systems
   
May 19, 2011 Richard Hain (Duke University) Topology and Arithmetic
   
May 26, 2011 Constantin Teleman (UC Berkeley) Invertible topological field theories and (higher) categories
   


June 2011     

Jun   2, 2011 No staff colloquium today (hemelvaartsdag)
   
Jun   9, 2011 Doug Hensley (Texas A&M University) Computing key parameters of continued fraction dynamical systems
   
Jun 16, 2011 David Carchedi (UU) Topological and Differentiable Stacks
   
Jun 23, 2011 Askar Dzhumadil'daev (Almaty) A walk around Lie and Jordan commutators
   


Schedule of the Utrecht math colloquium: This year's talks. Last term's talks. Last year's talks. Guidelines for speakers.

Other math colloquia: TU Delft, Leiden, UvA Amsterdam, VU Amsterdam, Nijmegen.

Organisers: Sasha Gnedin and Paul Zegeling