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Past Events
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Teaching and Learning Brown Bag: Emphasizing concepts and geometry in linear algebra without proofs (Patrick Perkins, Rekha Thomas and Bianca Viray) -
April 15, 2021
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PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (John Baez, University of California, Riverside) -
April 8, 2021
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PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (Lauren Williams, Harvard University) -
March 11, 2021
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PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (Ben Green, University of Oxford) -
February 11, 2021
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Strongly Rayleigh Distributions and a (slightly) Improved Approximation algorithm for Metric TSP (Shayan Oveis Gharan, University of Washington) -
February 5, 2021
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CANCELED: PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium (Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University) -
January 21, 2021
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Variational Analysis and Optimization (Tyrell Rockafellar, University of Washington) -
January 15, 2021
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Teaching and Learning Brown Bag: Should we ask or should we tell? (José M. Guzmán, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington) -
January 14, 2021
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Systems biology approaches in infectious disease and cell biology (John Aitchison, Center for Global Infectious Disease at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington) -
May 22, 2020
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COVID Math: trailing indicators, leading indicators, math models, and stats models (Abraham Flaxman, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) -
April 17, 2020
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CANCELED: Symmetries of shift systems (Bryna Kra, Northwestern University) -
March 13, 2020
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3264 Conics in A Second (Bernd Sturmfels, MPI Leipzig / UC Berkeley) -
February 18, 2020
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3264 Conics in A Second (Bernd Sturmfels, MPI Leipzig / UC Berkeley) -
February 18, 2020
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Mathematical sense and nonsense outside the classroom: How well are we preparing our students to tell the difference? (Robert Megginson, University of Michigan) -
February 14, 2020
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On $C^{2,\alpha}$ estimates for levels sets of Allen-Cahn equation (Jun-Cheng Wei, University of British Columbia) -
December 6, 2019
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Graph Density Inequalities and Sums of Squares (Rekha Thomas, University of Washington) -
November 22, 2019
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Heights and moments of abelian varieties (Farbod Shokrieh, University of Washington) -
November 8, 2019
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SNOW BUSINESS: SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING IN THE MOVIES AND BEYOND (Joseph Teran, UCLA) -
October 18, 2019
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Recent progress in birational geometry in positive characteristics (Christopher Hacon, University of Utah) -
October 11, 2019
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A Year at Google Research (Jake Levinson, University of Washington) -
October 4, 2019
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The Amazing Power of Dimensional Analysis in Finance: Market Impact and the Intraday Trading Invariance Hypothesis (Walter Schachermayer, University of Vienna) -
May 31, 2019
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Topology in neuroscience: some examples from neural coding and neural networks (Carina Curto, Penn State University) -
May 17, 2019
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Math Across Campus Lecture (Elisabetta Matsumoto, Georgia Tech) -
May 10, 2019
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Progress on Kahler-Ricci flow (Gang Tian, Peking University) -
May 3, 2019
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Lagrange's Identity and Apportionment of the U. S. House of Representatives (Tommy Wright, US Census Bureau) -
April 29, 2019
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The stability of Kerr-de Sitter space and global analysis (András Vasy, Stanford University) -
April 26, 2019
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Geometry of the Phase Retrieval Problem (Charles Epstein, University of Pennsylvania) -
April 5, 2019
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Nonlinear detection of connections (Gabriel Paternain, University of Cambridge) -
March 15, 2019
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Math Across Campus Lecture (Daniela Witten, University of Washington) -
March 1, 2019
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Equations and Algebraic Geometry in Groups and Algebras (Olga Kharlampovich, Hunter College CUNY) -
February 22, 2019
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Ranks, lines, progressions, and sets (Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin–Madison) -
November 30, 2018
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Patterns in Standard Young Tableaux (Sara Billey, University of Washington) -
November 16, 2018
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From Jellyfish and Wind Turbines to Genomics: Dealing with Data Extremes in Complex Systems (John O. Dabiri, Stanford University) -
November 9, 2018
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What is the shape of a rational map? (Sarah Koch, University of Michigan) -
October 12, 2018
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Fifty years in mathematics: A minority perspective (William Vélez, University of Arizona) -
October 5, 2018
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From lecture to active learning: Rewards for all, and is it really so difficult? (David Pengelley, Oregon State University) -
May 18, 2018
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The large-scale geometry of the Hitchin moduli space (Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University) -
May 11, 2018
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Coloring maps on surfaces (Ian Agol, UC Berkeley) -
April 27, 2018
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5 points on the sphere (Richard Schwartz, Brown University) -
April 20, 2018
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How to remedy unintended bias: “Stop it!” vs. “Document it” (Anthony Greenwald, University of Washington) -
April 13, 2018
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Applications of functoriality (Emily Riehl, Johns Hopkins University) -
April 6, 2018
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Using Mathematics to Unlock Biological Mysteries (Candice Price, University of San Diego) -
March 30, 2018
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Connections and Reconnections: A Link Between Mathematics, Physics and DNA (Mariel Vazquez, UC Davis) -
February 16, 2018
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Mathematical Adventures with Knitting Machines (Fabienne Serriere, KnitYak.com) -
November 17, 2017
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Drawing Conclusions From Drawing a Square (Annalisa Crannell, Franklin & Marshall College) -
October 27, 2017
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Using mathematics to fight cancer (Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College) -
October 20, 2017
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Toroidal Belyĭ pairs, Toroidal graphs, and their monodromy groups (Edray Goins, Purdue University) -
October 6, 2017
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Optimal transportation between unequal dimensions (Robert McCann, University of Toronto) -
June 2, 2017
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Equidistribution of Shapes of Number Fields of degree 3, 4, and 5 (Piper Harron, University of Hawaii at Manoa) -
May 26, 2017
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T-duality and Mirror Symmetry (Mohammed Abouzaid, Columbia University) -
May 5, 2017
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[Video] Of Triangles, Gases, Prices and Men (Cédric Villani, Institut Henri Poincaré & Université de Lyon) -
May 1, 2017
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Scattering by the sphere (Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley) -
April 28, 2017
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Tamagawa Numbers and Factorization Homology (Jacob Lurie, Harvard University) -
April 21, 2017
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Geometry and Light: The Science of Invisibility (Ulf Leonhardt, Weizmann Institute of Science) -
April 12, 2017
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Isometric Embedding of 2-dim Riemannian Manifolds in Euclidean 3-Space (Qing Han, University of Notre Dame) -
April 7, 2017
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[Video] On the Approximation of Laplacian Eigenvalues in Graph Disaggregation (John Urschel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -
March 28, 2017
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Quantum Symmetry (Chelsea Walton, Temple University) -
March 10, 2017
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Poset topology meets combinatorial representation theory (Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University) -
February 10, 2017
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Smarter Tools for (Citi)Bike Sharing (David Shmoys, Cornell University) -
December 2, 2016
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Alex Wright from Stanford University -
November 18, 2016
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Renzo Cavalieri from Colorado State University -
November 10, 2016
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Steven Lalley from University of Chicago -
November 4, 2016
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Frank Farris from Santa Clara University -
October 21, 2016
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Probabilistically Checkable Proofs: deducing a complicated global picture from very simple partial views (Irit Dinur, The Weizmann Institute of Science) -
May 20, 2016
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June Huh from Princeton University -
April 22, 2016
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Katherine E. Stange from University of Colorado, Boulder -
April 1, 2016
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Dusa McDuff from Barnard College -
March 4, 2016
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Branching Out Across the Solar System (Taylor Perron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -
February 19, 2016
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Brian Conrad from Stanford University -
February 12, 2016
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Jennifer McLoud-Mann from University of Washington, Bothell -
November 20, 2015
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Sham M. Kakade from University of Washington -
November 13, 2015
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From Polynomials to Humanoid Robots (Russ Tedrake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -
October 23, 2015
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Ivan Corwin from Columbia University and the Clay Mathematics Institute -
October 16, 2015
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[Video] Amnon Yekutieli from Ben Gurion University -
October 2, 2015
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Catherine Williams, Chief Data Scientist at AppNexus -
May 8, 2015
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Michelle Wachs from University of Miami -
May 1, 2015
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Lauren Williams from University of California, Berkeley -
March 6, 2015
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Computational Thinking (Jeannette Wing, Microsoft Research) -
February 27, 2015
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Mark Rudelson from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor -
February 20, 2015
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Andrea R. Nahmod from University of Massachusetts Amherst -
November 21, 2014
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Christopher D. Hacon from The University of Utah -
October 31, 2014
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Marianna Csörnyei from The University of Chicago -
October 17, 2014
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Math & Music: Connecting Theory & Practice (Dave Kung, St. Mary's College of Maryland) -
October 10, 2014
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Ravi Ramakrishna from Cornell University -
June 6, 2014
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Gene Abrams from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs -
May 23, 2014
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Shige Peng from Shandong University -
May 19, 2014
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Victor Reiner from University of Minnesota -
May 16, 2014
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Physical metaphors for graphs and networks (Dan Spielman, Yale University (Computer Science)) -
May 9, 2014
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Dan Spielman from Yale Institute for Network Science (Joint Math/CSE Colloquim and CORE Seminar) -
May 8, 2014
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Steffen Rohde from University of Washington -
May 2, 2014
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Roman Bezrukavnikov from Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
April 18, 2014
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Dan Shumow from Senior SDE at Microsoft Research -
April 18, 2014
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Neal Koblitz from University of Washington -
March 7, 2014
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Filling in the gaps: recovery from incomplete information (Maryam Fazel, University of Washington (Electrical Engineering)) -
February 21, 2014
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Bianca Viray from Brown University -
January 13, 2014
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Wei Ho from Columbia University -
January 10, 2014
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[Video] Gil Kalai from Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem -
November 22, 2013
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[Video] Greg Blekherman from Georgia Institute of Technology -
October 25, 2013
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[Video] Yuval Peres, Principal Researcher and Theory Group Manager at Microsoft Research -
May 17, 2013
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[Video] S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan from New York University's Courant Institute -
May 10, 2013
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[Video] Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Data Scientist at Johnson Research Labs -
March 20, 2013
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[Video] Gerald Folland from University of Washington -
February 22, 2013
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Exotic spheres and topological modular forms (Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -
February 4, 2013
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[Video] Thomas Rothvoss from Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
February 1, 2013
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Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy from Cornell University -
January 29, 2013
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Katya Krupchyk from University of Helsinki -
January 28, 2013
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[Video] Fredrik Viklund from Columbia University -
January 25, 2013
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Reinier Bröker from Brown University -
January 22, 2013
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[Video] Mathias Drton from UW Statistics Department -
January 18, 2013
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[Video] Max Warshauer from Texas State University -
November 16, 2012
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[Video] Matthew Kahle from Ohio State University -
October 5, 2012
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[Video] Bruce Reznick from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -
May 18, 2012
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[Video] Christopher Hacon from University of Utah -
April 6, 2012
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[Video] Jonathan Brundan from University of Oregon -
March 9, 2012
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[Video] Edward Witten from Institute for Advanced Study -
February 17, 2012
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[Video] Kristin Lauter from Microsoft Research and University of Washington -
January 13, 2012
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[Video] On the Topology of Black Holes (Greg Galloway, University of Miami) -
November 8, 2011
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[Video] Two Needles in Exponential Haystacks (Joel Spencer, New York University) -
October 14, 2011
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The Static and Stochastic Ising Models (Eyal Lubetzky, Microsoft Research and UW) -
May 20, 2011
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From Hilbert's 17th Problem to Polynomial Optimization and Convex Algebraic Geometry (Rekha Thomas, University of Washington) -
April 29, 2011
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Testing the Manifold Hypothesis (Hariharan Narayanan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -
March 29, 2011
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[Video] The Critical Probability of Percolation: Percolation on Self-Dual Polygon Configurations (Béla Bollobás, University of Cambridge, University of Memphis, and Microsoft ) -
February 18, 2011
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[Video] A Survey of Alternating Permutations (Richard Stanley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -
January 14, 2011
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Birational Classification of Algebraic Varieties (Christopher Hacon, University of Utah) -
November 23, 2010
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[Video] Potential Theory Meets Geometric Measure Theory (Tatiana Toro, University of Washington) -
October 29, 2010
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The Geometry of Reimann's Theta Functions (Sebastian Casalaina-Martin, University of Colorado, Boulder) -
October 15, 2010
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[Video] Quasirandom Processes (Jim Propp, University of Massachusetts Lowell) -
May 28, 2010
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[Video] The Optimization Work of Paul Tseng (Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo, University of Minnesota) -
May 7, 2010
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[Video] Generalizing the Cross Ratio: The Moduli Space of n Points on the Projective Line Up to Projective Equivalence (Ravi Vakil, Stanford University) -
April 30, 2010
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[Video] Weak Solution Concepts for Nonlinear Elliptic PDE and Associated Regularity (Neil Trudinger, Australian National University) -
April 16, 2010
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[Video] Issues in Multivariate Polynomial Interpolation (Carl de Boor, University of Wisconsin and UW (affiliate) ) -
February 5, 2010
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[Video] Growth Rates and Explosions in Sandpiles (Lionel Levine, M.I.T. and Microsoft Research ) -
January 29, 2010
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[Video] Random Sorting Networks (Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia & Microsoft Research) -
January 15, 2010
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[Video] Cloaking and Transformation Optics (Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington) -
November 20, 2009
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[Video] Character Formulas (Bill Fulton, University of Michigan ) -
November 6, 2009
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Shuffling Cards and Adding Numbers (Persi Diaconis, Stanford University) -
October 23, 2009