DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM (2006-2007)

All colloquiums will be held in Jeff 101 from 2.30pm-3.20pm.

March 30, 2007

Jeff Lagarias (Michigan)Packing and Tiling with copies of one tile
Contact: Ram Murty

March 23, 2007

Lawrence Washington (Maryland)Number Fields and Elliptic Curves
Contact: Ram Murty

March 16, 2007

Cristian Lenart (Albany) A combinatorial model in Lie theory
Contact: Ivan Dimitrov

March 9, 2007

Greg Smith (Queen's) Toric Varieties and Quivers
Contact: Ram Murty

March 2, 2007

John McKay (Concordia) The essentials of monstrous moonshine
Contact: Ram Murty

February 16, 2007

Jamie Mingo (Queen's) Random matrices and free probability
Contact: Ram Murty

February 9, 2007

Steve Kudla (Toronto) Representation densities and arithmetic geometry
Contact: Ram Murty
H2>Feburary 2, 2007 Marilyn Reece Myers (Queen's) On Kummer's conjecture
Contact: Ram Murty

January 26, 2007

Slava Futorny (Universidade de Sao Paulo)Extensions of characters of representation theory
Contact: Ivan Dimitrov

January 19, 2007

Eyal Goren (McGill) Ramanujan graphs: a motivated introduction
Contact: Ram Murty

January 10, 2007

Roger Howe (Yale) Some recent applications of induced representations
Contact: Ivan Dimitrov

December 1, 2006

No colloquium
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November 24, 2006

Andrew Granville (Montreal) MSI: Anatomy
Contact: Ram Murty

November 17, 2006

Troy Day (Queen's) Mathematics and evolution in influenza dynamics
Contact: Ram Murty

November 10, 2006

Susan Starkings (London South Bank University) Mathematics support for students on Vocational Courses
Contact: Agnes Herzberg

November 3, 2006

Kumar Murty (Toronto) Doubt and Certainty in Mathematics
Contact: Ram Murty

October 27, 2006

David Steinsaltz (Queen's) Paradoxes in probability and statistics
Contact: Ram Murty

October 20, 2006

Hugh Williams (Calgary/Fields) Cryptography, Sieving and Primality Proving
Contact: Ram Murty

October 13, 2006

Kristian Bjerklov (Queen's) The Schroedinger equation and strange nonchaotic attractors
Contact: Dan Offin

October 6, 2006

John Toth (McGill) Complex zeros of Laplace eigenfunctions
Contact: David Steinsaltz

September 29, 2006

Gerhard Frey (Essen) Brauer groups over global and local fields and discrete logarithms
Contact: Ernst Kani

September 22, 2006

Luis Ribes (Carleton) Galois groups and profinite groups
Contact: Ram Murty
Yulij Ilyashenko (Cornell) Quadratic vector fields and Hilbert's 16th problem
Contact: Maria Saprykina

September 15, 2006

Valentin Blomer (Toronto) Sums of squares
Contact: Ram Murty