Past Events

  • Lectures
Public Lecture
Date
Tuesday, May 8, 2018. 7:30pm
Speaker:
David Donoho (Stanford University)

In 2017, a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device by General Electric and Siemens entered the marketplace with an advertised 10-fold speedup over traditional MRI and the potential to impact…

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Monday, April 16, 2018. 4:00pm
Speaker:
Erwin Bolthausen (University of Zurich)

It is well known that in mean-field spin glasses, the annealed free energy typically does not agree with the quenched one, even at high temperature.

  • Lectures
Beatrice Yormark Lecture
Date
Thursday, April 12, 2018. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Frances Kirwan (Oxford University)

The aim of this talk is to describe these moduli spaces and outline their GIT construction, and then explain how recent methods from non-reductive GIT can help us to classify the singularities of…

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Thursday, April 5, 2018. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Erwin Bolthausen (University of Zurich)

The polaron describes an electron coupled to a polar crystal. A particular Hamiltonian was proposed by Herbert Froehlich.

  • Lectures
de Leeuw Lecture
Date
Thursday, March 8, 2018. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University)

In October 2017, I found myself testifying for hours in a federal court.  I had not been arrested.