Spring 2018
Each week, the Student Mathematics Colloquium holds 45-minute talks by Columbia mathematics faculty about their own research.
The talks are intended for current PhD students in mathematics at Columbia. If you are an undergraduate student or external graduate student and would like to come, please email me! |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 23 | Chao Li | From congruent numbers to the BSD conjecture |
| January 30 | Mohammed Abouzaid | The Faustian bargain in symplectic topology |
| February 6 | Brian Lawrence | Methods from p-adic analysis |
| February 13 | Ovidiu Savin | Maximum principle and nonlinear PDEs |
| February 20 | Sergiu Klainerman | General relativity as a source of great mathematical problems |
| February 27 | Ivan Corwin | Beyond the Gaussian universality class |
| March 6 | Arizona Winter School (no talk) | Arizona Winter School (no talk) |
| March 13 | Spring Break (no talk) | Spring Break (no talk) |
| March 20 | Dorian Goldfeld | Super-positivity of L-functions |
| March 27 | Michael Harris | The local Langlands correspondence |
| April 3 | Robert Friedman | Complex manifolds with trivial canonical bundle |
| April 10 | Simon Brendle | Geometric flows and singularity formation |
| April 17 | Eric Urban | On congruences between automorphic forms |
| April 24 | Mikhail Khovanov | Introduction to categorification |
| May 1 | Shrenik Shah | Higher class number formulae |