The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm in Evans 60. We will have at least two talks every month. Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is cordially invited to attend.
Michael Hutchings, Colloquium Chair.
Spring 2026
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February 5 | Professor Robert Bryant, Duke University |
The 2026 Shiing-Shen Chern Distinguished Lecture: Holonomy in Geometry: History and Current Developments |
| February 12 | Vincent Colin, Nantes Universit’e and SL Math |
On the dynamics of Reeb vector fields |
| February 19 | Robert Calderbank, Duke University |
Quantum Computers and Cellular Phones |
| February 26 | ||
| March 5 | Kathryn Mann, Cornell University and SL Math |
(Pseudo)-Anosov flows on $3$-manifolds. |
| March 12 | Bhargav Bhatt, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University |
2026 Chern Lecture #3: p-adic arithmetic geometry - Non-abelian aspects |
| March 19 | Susan Hermiller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
A tale of three unknotting conjectures |
| April 9 | Elisenda Grigsby, Boston College |
The geometry, topology, and combinatorics of neural networks |
| April 16 | Umberto Zannier, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa |
On a problem of Pólya and some of its evolutions |
| April 23 | ||
| April 30 | Tony Feng, UC Berkeley, Mathematics |
The rise and ramifications of Artificial Mathematical Intelligence |
| May 7 |