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
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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