Colloquia and Special Lectures, Spring 2010

• Departmental Colloquium (Organizers: Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Mikhail Khovanov, and Mu-Tao Wang)
• Feb. 17: Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers)
  “The 13th Proof that n!/(k!(n-k)!)<=n!/((k+1)!(n-k-1)!) (if k<n/2)”.
• Mar. 10: Pengfei Guan (McGill)
  “Convexity of solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations”.
• Mar. 24: Manjul Bhargava (Princeton)
  “The average rank of elliptic curves”.
• Apr. 7: Sijue Wu (Michigan)
  “Wellposedness of the two and three dimensional full water wave problem”.
• Apr. 21: Ngô Bào Châu (IAS and Columbia)
  “Kloosterman sheaves for reductive groups”.


• Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lectures, Spring 2010
  
  • April 20th, 4:30pm: David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley)
    “Vector Bundles and Free Resolutions”.
  
  
• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2010
  
  • April 8th & 9th, 4:30pm: John Horton Conway (Princeton University)
    "Pascal's Hexagram Mysticum and the Hexagrammatic Mystery".
  
  
• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2010
  
  • Fridays, 11am, starting January 29th: Ngô Bào Châu (Institute for Advanced Study)
    "The Hitchin Fibration and the Fundamental Lemma”.