At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 2001 Colloquium talks.
Spring 2001
| Date | Speaker | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 25 | Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton | Mathematical problems suggested by analogue-to-digital conversion | |
| February 1 | Ciprian Foias, Indiana University | DiPerna Lecture: The connection between the Navier-Stokes equations and Kolmogorov's theory for fully developed turbulence | |
| February 8 | Peter Lax, Courant Institute | Multiple eigenvalues | |
| February 15 | Luca Trevisan, EECS, UC Berkeley | Randomness extractors and pseudorandom generators | |
| February 22 | Alice Chang, Princeton University | A fully nonlinear equation and the Ricci curvature | |
| March 1 | Victor Guillemin, MIT | Quantization, star products, and almost complex structures | |
| March 8 | Russell Lyons, Indiana University and Georgia Tech | Random spanning trees, random walks, and electric networks | |
| March 15 | Wu-yi Hsiang, UC Berkeley and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | The optimal density of sphere packings in dimension 8 and the uniqueness theorem on final packings with optimal density | |
| March 22 | Steven Zelditch, The Johns Hopkins University | Geometry of highly excited quantum states | |
| March 29 | Spring Break! | Spring Break! | |
| April 5 | Andrei Okounkov, UC Berkeley | Random trees and moduli of curves | |
| April 12 | Guenter Ziegler, Technical University, Berlin | Fat 3-Spheres, 4-Polytopes and 5-Lattices | |
| April 19 | Richard Melrose, MIT | Analysis on singular spaces | |
| April 26 | Robin Pemantle, Ohio State University | Asymptotic enumeration and multivariate rational generating functions | |
| May 3 | Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley | Averaging submanifolds in Riemannian manifolds | |
The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10 pm in 60 Evans Hall. Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is cordially invited to attend. (Maciej Zworski is the current Colloquium Chair.)