DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
SPRING 2011
WEDNESDAY 4:30-5:30 pm
Tea served at 4:00
Fine Hall 314

DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC
Feb. 23 Anna Wienhard
Princeton University 		Higher Teichmueller spaces -- from SL(2,R) to other Lie groups
Mar. 2 Ivan Cherednik
University of North Carolina 		New theory of hypergeometric functions
Mar. 9
Joint with ORFE		 Alice Guionnet
Lyon, France		 The spectrum of non-normal random matrices
Mar. 10 (Thursday)
Joint with ORFE:
12:00 p.m. (Room 101-Sherrerd) 		Alice Guionnet
Lyon, France		 Topological expansion for random matrices
Mar. 30 Yuri Tschinkel
NYU		 Rational points on algebraic varieties
Apr. 6 Thomas Haines
University of Maryland		 Endoscopic transfer of the Bernstein center
Apr. 13 Steve Zelditch
Northwestern University		 Eigenfunctions and nodal sets
Apr. 20 Alexander Bufetov
Steklov Institute of Mathematics and
Rice University		 Limit Theorems for Translation Flows
May 11 Balazs Szegedy
University of Toronto		 Higher order Fourier analysis