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Since fall 2005, "Basic Notions Seminars" are also called "Faculty
Colloquia". In these events, faculty members and sometimes guests of the department
give general talks on areas of research that interest them. These
talks are aimed at beginning graduate students, but everyone is welcome.
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Fall 2009
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Faculty | Basic Notions Job Search Seminar |  |
Mon Sep 21, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Benedict Gross | Self-dual and conjugate-dual Galois representations |
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Jacob Lurie | Categorification of the Fourier Transform |  |
Mon Nov 2, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Hao Xu | Intersection theory on moduli spaces of curves |
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Cedric Villani | Landau damping |  |
Mon Oct 26, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | HT Yau | Eigenvalue distributions of random matrices, a dynamical approach |
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Mon Nov 9, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Wilfried Schmid | Hodge theory and unitary representations of reductive Lie groups |  |
Mon Nov 16, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Joseph Rabinoff | Beyond Newton polygons: locating the zeros of polynomials over a non-Archimedean field |
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Mon Nov 23, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Dennis Gaitsgory | Quantum Langlands |  |
Mon Nov 30, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Clark Barwick | Descent Problems for K-Theory |
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Mon Dec 7, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Andrew Cotton-Clay |  |
Mon Dec 14, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Barry Mazur | ||
Spring 2009
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | ||
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Mon Feb 2, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Gerald Sacks | Infinitely Long Formulas: A Short Introduction |  |
Mon Feb 9, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Thomas Lam | The Edrei-Thoma Theorem |
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Mon Feb 23, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Martin Nowak and Corina Tarnita | Evolutionary Dynamics on Sets |  |
Mon Mar 2, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Noam Elkies | How to Solve Diophantine Equations |
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Mon March 9, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Benedict Gross | Connections on Complex Algebraic Curves |  |
Mon March 16, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | John Duncan | Poincare Series |
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Mon March 30, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Daniela Damjanovic | Perturbations of some higher rank unipotent actions |  |
Mon April 6, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Li-Sheng Tseng | Non-Kahler Geometry |
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Mon April 13, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Lydia Bieri | Geometric Analysis and General Relativity |  |
Mon April 20, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Jun Yin | Mathematical problems in quantum many-body physics |
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Mon April 27, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Alice Guionnet | Random matrices, free probability and enumerations of maps |  |
Mon May 11, 2009 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Michael Hopkins | The Kervaire invariant problem |
Fall 2008
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | ||
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Mon Sep 29, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Dennis Gaitsgory | Geometric representation theory |  |
Mon Oct 06, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Cliff Taubes | Inexpensive quantum field theories |
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Mon Oct 20, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Nir Avni | Motivic Integration |  |
Mon Oct 27, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Joe Harris | The interpolation problem |
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Mon Nov 3, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Peter Kronheimer | Using instantons to see the Thurston norm | |
Mon Nov 10, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Clark Barwick | Schematic Homotopy Types |
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Mon Nov 17, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Lauren Williams | What does the non-negative part of a flag variety look like? |  |
Mon Dec 8, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Shing-Tung Yau | Conserved quantities in classical general relativity |
Spring 2008
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | ||
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Mon April 14, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Cumrun Vafa | Topological Strings |  |
Mon April 7, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Alberto de Sole | Hamiltonian equation, their integrals of motion and related algebraic structure. |
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Mon March 31, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Michael Hopkins | Algebraic topology of topological field theories |  |
Mon March 17, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Toshiyuki Kobayashi | Existence Problem of Compact Locally Symmetric Spaces |
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Mon March 10, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Ben Weinkove | The Calabi-Yau equation | |
Mon March 3, 2008 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Martin Nowak | Evolutionary Dynamics |
Fall 2007
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | ||
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Mon Oct 1, 2007 | 3:30 PM (a one time shift) | SC 507 | Clifford Taubes | Smooth Manifolds in Dimension 4 |  |
Mon Oct 15, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Richard Taylor | Shimura Varieties and Rapoport-Zink Spaces |
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Mon Oct 22, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Joe Harris | Uniformity of Rational Points on Curves |  |
Mon Oct 29, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Slava Krushkal | The chromatic polynomial, the golden ratio, and quantum topology |
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Mon Nov 5, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Dick Gross | On the parameters of discrete series |  |
Mon Nov 19, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Paul Seidel (MIT) | Pairs of Pants |
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Mon Dec 3, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Danijela Damjanovic | Stability of some Abelian actions |  |
Mon Dec 10, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Mark Behrens (MIT) | Stable homotopy groups of spheres and modular forms |
Spring 2007
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Mon Feb 5, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Arthur Jaffe | Quantization and Renormalization |  |
Mon Feb 12, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Curt McMullen | Thermodynamics, dimension and moduli of Riemann surfaces |
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Mon Feb 26, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Noam Elkies | Belyi functions | |
Mon Mar 5, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Gerald Sacks | Differentially closed fields |
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Mon Mar 12, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | David Kazhdan | Poisson summation formula and its applications to the representation theory | |
Mon Mar 19, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | John Duncan | Vertex algebra and elliptic genera |
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Mon Apr 2, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Dan Stroock | Most of DeGiorgi-Moser-Nash was already in Nash | |
Mon Apr 9, 2007 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Barry Mazur | Transcendence conjectures about units in algebraic number fields and deformation problems |
Fall 2006
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | ||
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Mon, Oct 2, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Cliff Taubes | Does Dirac have a tin ear? | |
Mon Oct 16, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Peter Kronheimer | Three-manifolds, four-manifolds and Floer homology |
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Mon Oct 23, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Ben Weinkove | Moment maps and geometry |  |
Mon Oct 30, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Shlomo Sternberg | The Ehrhart function for symbols and a generalization of Euler's constant |
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Mon Nov 6, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Joseph Harris | Progress on algebraic curves |  |
Mon Nov 13, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Samit Dasgupta | Conjectures on Hilbert's 12th Problem |
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Mon Nov 20, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Shing-Tung Yau | Hermitian metrics on complex manifolds and vector bundles | |
Mon Nov 27, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Horng-Tzer Yau | Brownian motion in quantum mechanics |
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Mon Dec 4 | 3 PM | SC 507 | David Helm | Reduction of Shimura varieties and the Langlands program | |
Mon Dec 11 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Lauren Williams | From total positivity on the Grassmannian to the asymmetric exclusion process |
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Mon Dec 18, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Benedict Gross | Binary cubic forms and ternary quadratic forms: classifying the orbits of some group actions |
Spring 2006
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Mon, Feb 6, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Barry Mazur | Functional Equations, signs, and their implications [PDF] | |
Mon, Feb 13, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Benedikt Gross | Arithmetic on elliptic curves: an update on Tate's Inventiones paper |
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Mon, Mar 6, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Gerald Sacks | Vaught's Conjecture | |
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Wilfried Schmid | Automorphic distributions and L-functions |
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Mon, Apr 10, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Martin Nowak | Five rules for the evolution of cooperation | |
Mon, Apr 24, 2006 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Richard Taylor | Elliptic curves and L-functions |
Fall 2005
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Title | ||
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Mon, Sep 26, 2005 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Curt McMullen | Renormalization | |
Mon, Oct 3, 2005 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Mike Hopkins | Homotopy groups |
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Mon, Oct 17, 2005 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Joe Harris | The Brill-Noether theorem: representation theory for curves | |
Mon, Oct 24, 2005 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Dennis Gaitsgory | Affine Kac-Moody algebras and their representations |
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Mon, Oct 31, 2005 | 3 PM | SC 507 | Yum-Tong Siu | Multiplier ideals -- a new technique linking analysis and algebraic geometry | |
Mon, Nov 21, 2005 | 3 PM | SC 507 | S.-T. Yau | Mathematical problems in general relativity |
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Mon, Dec 12, 2005 | 3 pm | SC 507 | Horng-Tzer Yau | Mathematical problems in quantum physics |