Summer Term 2007/08

Organiser: Adam Epstein

Friday 25 April 2008
Tom Fisher (Cambridge)
The arithmetic of plane cubics

Friday 2 May 2008
Ezra Getzler (Northwestern)
Lie theory for differential graded Lie algebras

Friday 9 May 2008
Spiro Karigiannis (Oxford)
What are G2 manifolds?

Friday 16 May 2008
Mihai Ciucu (Georgia Tech)
The field of average tile orientations in random tilings with holes

Friday 30 May 2008
Bernd Sturmfels (Berkeley)
Powers of Linear Forms

Friday 6 June 2008
Artur Czumaj (Warwick - DIMAP)
Testing expansion in bounded degree graphs really fast

Friday 13 June 2008
Bjorn Poonen (Berkeley)
Undecidability in number theory

Friday 20 June 2008
Nils Bruin (Simon Fraser)
Deciding existence of rational points on curves

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Spring Term 2007/08

Organiser: Adam Epstein

Friday 11 January 2008
Mary Rees (Liverpool)
Counting Maps

Friday 18 January 2008
Tim Dokchitser (Cambridge)
Parity conjecture for elliptic curves

Friday 25 January 2008
Michael Stoll (Jacobs)
Rational points on curves of genus 2

Friday 1 February 2008
Raphael Rouquier (Oxford)
Dunkl operators, microlocalization and quantization

Friday 8 February 2008
Jongil Park (Seoul National University)
New symplectic 4-manifolds and algebraic surfaces

Friday 15 February 2008
Fabrizio Catanese (Bayreuth)
A packing problem for automorphisms of Riemann surfaces and the slope of Kodaira fibrations

Friday 22 February 2008
Richard Kaye (Birmingham)
Nonstandard symmetric groups

Friday 29 February 2008
Mark Roberts (Surrey)
The geometry of spacecraft attitude control

Friday 7 March 2008
Anton Thalmaier (Luxemburg)
Brownian motion of Jordan curves and stochastic analysis on the diffeomorphism group of the circle

Friday 14 March 2008
Dorothy Buck (Imperial)
Predicting DNA knot/link type after protein action

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Autumn Term 2007/08

Organiser: Adam Epstein

Friday 12 October 2007
Björn Sandstede (Sussex)
Coherent structures in oscillatory media

Friday 19 October 2007
Boris Zilber (Oxford)
Zariski geometries and quantum deformations of classical structures

Friday 26 October 2007
Brian Bowditch (Warwick)
The angel problem

Friday 2 November 2007
Andrzej Zuk (Jussieu)
Amenability

Friday 9 November 2007
Ian Roulstone (Surrey)
Kaehler geometry and the Navier-Stokes equations

Friday 16 November 2007
Pierre Vogel (Jussieu)
The universal Lie algebra

Friday 23 November 2007
Anatoly Neishtadt (Loughborough)
Separatrix crossing in slow/fast Hamiltonian systems

Friday 30 November 2007
Philip Welch (Bristol)
The definable continuum problem

Friday 7 December 2007
Simon Donaldson (Imperial)
External matrix on complex surfaces

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See also:
Mathematics Research Centre
Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research at Warwick (MIR@W)
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