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$Jean-Luc Thiffeault$

Math Across Campus Lecture

Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin
May 15, 2020 - 12:00am

Past Events

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

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