The Mathematics Colloquium at Rutgers-Newark 2019-2020

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The Colloquium of the Mathematics Department of Rutgers-Newark takes places on every second or third Wednesday, from 4pm-5pm, in 204 Smith Hall, 101 Warren St., Rutgers-Newark. All are welcome.

On alternate Wednesdays, the student colloquium features talks which are aimed in particular to be accessible to graduate students. Again, all are welcome.

 

Schedule

 

Date	Colloquium Speaker	Title
Sep 4	No Talk
Sep 11	Hong Wang (IAS)	Falconer distance problem on the plane Abstract
Sep 18	Francesco Lin (Columbia U.)	Monopole Floer homology and spectral geometry Abstract
Sep 25	Hongbin Sun (Rutgers – New Brunswick)	Subgroup distortion of 3-manifold groups Abstract
Oct 2	No Talk
Oct 8	Si Li (Tsinghua U.)	Factorization algebra from quantum field theory and index theorem Abstract
Oct 9	Chenglong Yu (UPenn)	Moduli of symmetric cubic fourfolds and nodal sextic curves Abstract
Oct 15	Ziquan Zhuang (MIT)	Alpha invariants, birational superrigidity and K-stability Abstract
Oct 16	Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner (UC Santa Cruz)	Length and volume in symplectic geometry Abstract
Oct 23	Samuel Taylor (Temple U.)	A central limit theorem for random closed geodesics on surfaces Abstract
Oct 30	Yang Li (IAS)	Collapsing Calabi-Yau metrics on Lefschetz K3 fibred 3-folds Abstract
Nov 6	No Talk
Nov 13	Andrey Kupavskii (IAS)	Kneser graphs: independent sets and chromatic number Abstract
Nov 20	Jingwei Xiao (Princeton/IAS)	Germ expansion of Jacquet-Rallis transfer Abstract
Nov 27	Thanksgiving
Dec 4	Alexey Ovchinnikov (CUNY Queens College)	Identifiability of parameters in ODEs with differential algebra Abstract
Dec 11	Efstratia Kalfagianni (Michigan State U.)	Geometric structures of 3-manifolds and quantum invariants Abstract
Jan 28	Wan Chen (MIT)	Local multiplicity for spherical varieties Abstract
Jan 30	Robert Kropholler (Tufts U.)	Incoherence and virtual fibering of free-by-free groups Abstract
Feb 4	Baiying Liu (Purdue)	Langlands functoriality and converse theorems Abstract
Feb 5	Alexandra Kjuchukova (Max Planck Institute)	Knot colorings and quotients of knot groups Abstract
Feb 6	John Huerta (Instituto Superior Tecnico)	G2 and the rolling ball Abstract
Feb 11	Mehdi Lejmi (CUNY Bronx)	Problems related to the Chern scalar curvature Abstract
Feb 19	Yihang Zhu (Columbia U.)	L-functions, orbital integrals, and algebraic varieties in the Langlands Program Abstract
Feb 26	Daniele Alessandrini (Columbia)	Higher Teichmuller Theory and character varieties Abstract
Mar 4	David Soudry (Tel Aviv U.)	Rankin-Selberg integrals, Langlands functoriality and automorphic descent Abstract
Mar 11	Bach Nguyen (Temple U.)	Cancelled
Mar 18	Spring Recess
Mar 25	Jason Behrstock (CUNY Lehman)	Cancelled
Apr 1	No Talk
Apr 8	No Talk
Apr 14	Liming Sun (Johns Hopkins)	Cancelled
Apr 22	No Talk
Apr 29	No Talk