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Results for Colloquium Series events from 2015-07-01 to 2016-06-30
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Unless otherwise indicated, the Colloquium is held from 4:00-5:00 pm on Tuesdays. John McCarthy (Washington University) has written a nice article describing how to give a good colloquium (Canad. Math. Soc. Notes vol 35 no. 3-4, Sept. 1999).

Seminar List

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Date	Speaker	Seminar	Title
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Roman Vershynin University of Michigan	Colloquium Series	Discovering hidden structures in large networks
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Kiran S. Kedlaya ICERM/UCSD	Colloquium Series	Equidistribution of Frobenius eigenvalues
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Amir Mohammadi University of Texas at Austin	Colloquium Series	Dynamics of group actions on homogeneous spaces and the moduli space
Tuesday, October 06, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Rostislav Grigorchuk Texas A & M University	Colloquium Series	Spectra of Schreir graphs of groups of intermediate growth and Schroedinger operators
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Santosh Vempala Georgia Institute of Technology	Colloquium Series	Gaussian Cooling and Randomized Volume Computation
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Fall Break	Colloquium Series	Fall Break
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	David Speyer University of Michigan	Colloquium Series	REBUILD colloquium: Interactive mathematical instruction at Michigan
Tuesday, November 03, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Marc Bonnet ENSTA, Paris	Colloquium Series	Topological derivative for qualitative inverse scattering
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Frank Sottile Texas A & M University	Colloquium Series	Higher convexity for complements of tropical objects
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	David Harbater Univ of Penn	Colloquium Series	Local-global principles, old and new
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Alexander Volberg Michigan State University	Colloquium Series	Non-homogeneous harmonic analysis and Geometric Measure Theory.
Tuesday, December 01, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Ching-Li Chai University of Pennsylvania	Colloquium Series	Moduli of abelian varieties: symmetry and rigidity
Tuesday, December 08, 2015 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Mike Zieve University of Michigan	Colloquium Series	Geometric invariants of rational functions
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Valentino Tosatti Northwestern University	Colloquium Series	The Ricci flow on compact Kähler manifolds
Monday, January 18, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Cristina Villalobos University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley	Colloquium Series	Becoming Agents of Change: Building Diverse Communities and Lessons Learned from the Mathematical Modelling of Eye Disease
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Bernd Sturmfels University of California, Berkeley	Colloquium Series	Eigenvectors of Tensors
Tuesday, February 02, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Alireza Salehi Golsefidy UCSD	Colloquium Series	Super-approximation and its applications.
Tuesday, February 09, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Howard Masur University of Chicago	Colloquium Series	Billiards in polygons, translation surfaces, and moduli spaces
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Jordan Ellenberg University of Wisconsin	Colloquium Series	Configurations, arithmetic groups, cohomology, and stability
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Guoliang Yu Texas A & M University	Colloquium Series	Geometry of groups and rigidity of manifolds
Tuesday, March 01, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Winter Break	Colloquium Series	Winter Break
Tuesday, March 08, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Philip Maini University of Oxford	Colloquium Series	Ziwet Lecture I: How Does the Zebra get its Stripes?
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Percy Deift Courant Institute, NYU	Colloquium Series	Ziwet lecture I: Universality in numerical computations with random data. Case studies
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Start: 3:10 PM Location: 4096 East Hall	Zaher Hani Georgia Tech	Colloquium Series	Long-time dynamics and turbulence of nonlinear waves. Part I
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Kyle Ormsby Reed College	Colloquium Series	Tensor triangular geometry of stable homotopy categories
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Faculty meeting with the Dean	Colloquium Series	Faculty meeting with Dean Martin
Tuesday, April 05, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Brandon Seward The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Colloquium Series	Sumner Myers Prize: Developments in entropy theory
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Start: 3:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Arnaud Beauville Universite de Nice	Colloquium Series	Special AG lecture series in Spring: The L\"uroth problem
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Alex Eskin University of Chicago	Colloquium Series	Polygonal Billiards and Dynamics on Moduli Spaces
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Federico Rodriguez Hertz Penn State	Colloquium Series	Stationary measures, P-invariant measures and invariant measures for group actions.
Monday, May 02, 2016 Start: 4:10 PM Location: 1360 East Hall	Alex Wright Stanford University	Colloquium Series	GL(2,R) invariant subvarieties of the Hodge bundle

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