BU Mathematics Colloquium

Boston University Mathematics Colloquium -- Spring 2014

The colloquium seminar series at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University aims on bringing world experts from various areas of mathematics to talk about their field of study. Each talk will be preceded by an additional talk (with a tea break in between) given by a local faculty member and aimed to prepare the audience for the colloquium talk itself. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to attend the pre-talks. The colloquium seminar series usually meets on the last Friday of each month (see specific dates below).

Colloquium organizers: Margaret Beck, Sam Isaacson, Si Li, Jared Weinstein and Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

All talks are 4-5 pm in SCI 117. The pre-colloquium talks are 2:30-3:30 pm in MCS 148. There will be a tea from 3:30-4:00 pm in MCS 144.

Date	Speaker	Title	Pre-talk speaker	Pre-talk title
Jan. 24	Kevin Costello (Northwestern)	Aspects of the mathematics of quantum field theory	Ryan Grady	Classical and quantum observables: a mathematical introduction
Feb. 28	Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann and Courant)	The ubiquity of branching random walks	Konstantinos Spiliopoulos	From PDEs to probability and back: an introduction
March 28	Jordan Ellenberg (Wisconsin)	Configurations, arithmetic groups, cohomology, and stability	Jared Weinstein	Representation theory of the symmetric group
Apr. 25	Charlie Smart (MIT)	Apollonian circle packings and the Abelian sandpile	Samuel Isaacson	Introduction to the discrete Laplacian