The Penn Colloquium 2017-18 Homepage


Jim Haglund is the 2017-2018 Penn colloquium chair. In Spring semester 2018 the colloquium meets on Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30pm in DRL A2. There is a tea before the talk at 3pm in the math dept lounge, 4th floor DRL. See the table below for our schedule for the 2017-2018 Academic year.


The 2017-2018 Colloquium Schedule

Date                   Speaker                             Title (click on title to see abstract)                            
9/6
9/13 Angela Gibney, Rutgers University Vector bundles of conformal blocks on the moduli space of curves
9/20
9/27 Cameron Gordon, UT Austin Left-orderability and 3-manifold groups
10/4 Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute and NYU A review of extremes for log correlated fields
10/11 Pasha Pylyavskyy, University of Minnesota Zamolodchikov periodicity and integrability
10/18
10/25
11/1 Yao Yao, Georgia Tech Regularity and blow-up in 2D fluid equations
11/8 Bjorn Poonen, MIT Undecidability everywhere (Radamacher Lecture)
11/15
11/22
11/29
12/6
1/17
1/24
1/31
2/7
2/14 Sylvia Serfaty, NYU Systems of points with Coulomb interactions
2/21 Penn Ugrad Colloquium (Janine Remillard from the Penn Ed School)
2/28 Dave Khoshnevisan, University of Utah A Stratified Kraichnan Model
3/7 Penn's Spring Break
3/14 Jacob Lurie, Harvard The Cohomology of Bun_G(X) (Radamacher lecture)
3/21
3/28 Lu Wang, University of Wisconsin Mean curvature flow and entropy
4/4 Brendon Rhoades, UC San Diego The combinatorics, algebra, and geometry of ordered set partitions
4/9 Paul Baum, Penn State K-THEORY AND THE DIRAC OPERATOR - What is K-theory and what is it good for? (Radamacher lecture)
4/18 Sándor Kovács, University of Washington Moduli theory and singularities
4/25 Bálint Virág, University of Toronto TBA