Stony Brook MathematicsColloquiums Video Archive

 John Pardon (Princeton University) Pontryagin-Thom for orbifolds November 19, 2020 Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University) Weinstein manifolds as cotangent bundles of arboreal spaces November 12, 2020 Tara Holm (Cornell University) Understanding Symplectic Geometry through Polytopes and Lattice Points November 5, 2020 James Maynard (Oxford University) Primes in arithmetic progressions: The Riemann Hypothesis - and beyond! October 29, 2020 Maria Chudnovsky (Princeton University) Induced subgraphs and tree decompositions October 22, 2020 Bjorn Poonen (MIT) Space vectors forming rational angles October 15, 2020 Sergey Fomin (University of Michigan) Expressive curves October 8, 2020 Moira Chas (Stony Brook University) Alicia Boole Stott, the woman who could see four dimensions October 1, 2020 Robert Hough (Stony Brook University) Recent results on random walk on a group September 24, 2020 Thomas Bloom (Cambridge University) Arithmetic progressions in dense sets of integers September 17, 2020 Sabyasachi Mukherjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Fatou-Sullivan Dictionary, Matings, and Schwarz Reflections September 3, 2020 Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M University) Spectrum, Renormalization, and 2D Rational Dynamics associated with certain Self-Similar Groups February 13, 2020 Allan Sly (Princeton University) Phase transitions of random constraint satisfaction problems November 21, 2019 Gautam Chinta (City College of New York) Two dimensional lattices in $Z^4$ November 14, 2019 Scott Wilson (Queen's College) New techniques for studying the topology and geometry of almost complex manifolds November 7, 2019 Robin Pemantle ( University of Pennsylvania) Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables October 31, 2019 William Dunham (Bryn Mawr College) A Tale of Two Series October 24, 2019 Claude LeBrun (Stony Brook University) Einstein Metrics, Complex Surfaces, and Symplectic 4-Manifolds October 17, 2019 Dimitris Koukoulopoulos (Université de Montréal) On the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture October 3, 2019 Guofang Wei (University of California at Santa Barbara) Semi-local simple connectedness of non-collapsing Ricci limit spaces May 2, 2019 Scott Wolpert(University of Maryland) Prime Geodesic Theorems April 18, 2019 Simon Donaldson (SCGP) Multi-valued harmonic functions March 28, 2019 Michael Wolf (Rice University) Towards Thurston boundaries for higher rank Teichmuller spaces February 7, 2019 Bhargav Bhatt (University of Michigan) Interpolating p-adic cohomology theories December 13, 2018 Manuel Rivera (University of Miami) A new point in topology December 12, 2018 Max Engelstein (MIT) The role of Energy in Regularity December 6, 2018 Felix Janda (University of Michigan) Enumerative geometry: old and new December 4, 2018 Kristen Hendricks (MSU) New invariants of homology cobordism November 29, 2018 Nikita Nekrasov (Stony Brook University/SCGP) Lefschetz thimbles from Fermi curves November 08, 2018 Leon Takhtajan (Stony Brook University) Scattering theory for mathematicians November 01, 2018 Kevin Ford (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Probabilistic aspects of number theory October 4, 2018 Boris Bukh (Carnegie Mellon) Bipartite Turan problem September 27, 2018 Pace Nielsen (Bringham Young University) Why Euclidean domains are both easier and harder than you think September 20, 2018 Mark Pollicott (University of Warwick) Dimensions of Cantor sets and Diophantine approximation September 06, 2018 Dzmitry Dudko On the problem of local connectivity of the Mandelbrot sets March 01, 2018 Jenny Wilson (Stanford University) Stability in the homology of configuration spaces December 15, 2017 Alex Wright (Stanford University) Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces December 14, 2017 Dorian Goldfeld (Columbia University) Super-positivity of L-functions December 6, 2017 Misha Gromov (IHES & NYU) What is scalar curvature, really? November 21, 2017 Simon Marshall (University of Wisconsin) The asymptotic size of (arithmetic) eigenfunctions November 2, 2017 Alex Gamburd (CUNY Graduate Center) Arithmetic and Dynamics on Markoff-Hurwitz Varieties October 19, 2017 Nick Trefethen (NYU) Random functions, random ODEs, and Chebfun September 28, 2017 Soren Galatius (Stanford University) Smooth manifold bundles April 27, 2017 Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley) Tableaux combinatorics of hopping particles and Koornwinder polynomials April 6, 2017 Ken Ono (Emory University) Can't you just feel the Moonshine? March 30, 2017 Federico Rodriguez Hertz (Penn State) New developments in the theory of smooth actions March 9, 2017 Otis Chodosh (Princeton University) New results on the global geometry of scalar curvature February 23, 2017 Samuel Grushevsky (Stony Brook University) Degenerations of Riemann surfaces together with a meromorphic 1-form January 26, 2017 Marc Hoyois (MIT) Motivic cohomology and Steenrod operations December 15, 2016 Lillian Pierce (Duke University) p-torsion in class groups of number fields of arbitrary degree December 8, 2016 Stefan Steinerberger (Yale University) Three Miracles in Analysis December 7, 2016 Ivan Loseu (Northeastern University) Orbit method via deformations of singular symplectic varieties December 6, 2016 Adam Sheffer (California Institute of Technology) Geometric Incidences and the Polynomial Method December 5, 2016 Hans-Joachim Hein (Fordham University) Calabi-Yau manifolds with conical singularities December 1, 2016 Denis Auroux (Berkeley) Homological mirror symmetry: cylinders and pairs of pants November 22, 2016 Philippe LeFloch (University of Paris 6) The global nonlinear stability of Minkowski spacetime for self-gravitating massive fields November 17, 2016 Giulia Sacca (Stony Brook University) Compact Hyperkahler manifolds in algebraic geometry November 10, 2016 Rasul Shafikov (University of Western Ontario) Polynomial and rational convexity of singular real submanifolds October 27, 2016 Alex Kontorovich (Rutgers University) Geometry to Arithmetic of Sphere Packings, Or: Even More Pictures of Circles with Numbers Inside October 25, 2016 Sylvia Serfaty (NYU) Microscopic description of Coulomb-type systems October 20, 2016 Xuhua He (University of Maryland) The cocenter program and representations of p-adic groups October 13, 2016 Claude LeBrun (Stony Brook University) Mass in Kaehler Geometry October 6, 2016 Bill Casselman (University of British Columbia) The early days of Langlands' conjectures September 28, 2016 Abhinav Kumar Twenty-four dimensional cannonballs and magic functions September 15, 2016 Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research) From Laplacian growth to competitive erosion September 8, 2016 Tony Phillips (Stony Brook University) 50 years of sphere eversion May 12, 2016 Grigory Mikhalkin (Geneva University) Quantum index of real plane curves and refined enumerative geometry May 11, 2016 Ciprian Manolescu (UCLA) Triangulations of manifolds May 5, 2016 Robert Bryant (Duke University) Curvature-homogeneous metrics in dimension 3 April 28, 2016 Sam Payne (Yale) Tropical geometry of curves and their moduli April 21, 2016 Mihnea Popa (Northwestern) Families of varieties and Hodge theory April 14, 2016 Laura DeMarco (Northwestern) Complex dynamics and elliptic curves March 31, 2016 Stanislav Molchanov (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Schrodinger operator on the fractals. Elements of the spectral theory March 24, 2016 Allen Tannenbaum (Stony Brook University) Mathematical Methods in Medical Imaging March 3, 2016 Jacopo De Simoi (Univ. Paris Diderot - Paris 7) Birkhoff conjecture and spectral rigidity of planar convex domains February 25, 2016 Kenneth Bromberg (University of Utah) Stable commutator length in the mapping class group February 11, 2016 Robert Hough (IAS) The minimum modulus problem for covering systems February 4, 2016 Chris Dodd (Perimeter Institute) Quantization, reduction mod p, and Autoequivalences of the Weyl algebra February 4, 2016 Sean Li (University of Chicago) Beyond Euclidean rectifiability February 2, 2016 Bjorn Poonen (MIT) Undecidability in number theory January 28, 2016 Tianyi Zheng (Stanford University) Random walk parameters and the geometry of groups January 27, 2016 Michelle Manes (University of Hawaii) Some arithmetic properties of post-critically finite rational functions December 3, 2015 Lewis Bowen (University of Texas at Austin) Entropy for sofic group actions December 2, 2015 Subhro Ghosh (Princeton University) Rigidity phenomena in random point sets December 1, 2015 Moira Chas (Stony Brook) Computer Driven Questions and Theorems and in Geometry November 5, 2015 Penka Georgieva (Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu) Real vs. Complex Enumerative Geometry October 15, 2015 Andrew Lawrie (UC Berkeley) Wave maps with large data October 01, 2015 Radu Laza (Stony Brook University) Birational geometry of moduli spaces September 17, 2015 Joseph Harris (Harvard University) A semi-historical introduction to intersection theory September 10, 2015 Joel Fine (Université Libre de Bruxelles) From Einstein 4-manifolds to symplectic 6-manifolds via gauge theory May 7, 2015 Blaine Lawson (Stony Brook University) Differential Inequalities and Generalized Pluripotential Theories April 21, 2015 Steve Preston (University of Colorado) Another one-dimensional model for the 3D Euler equation April 16, 2015 Wilhelm Schlag (University of Chicago) Long-time dynamics of nonlinear wave equations April 2, 2015 Carlos simpson (University of Nice/IAS) Constructing harmonic maps to buildings, and the WKB problem March 26, 2015 Jason Miller (MIT) Liouville Quantum Gravity as a Mating of Trees March 12, 2015 Christian Schnell (Stony Brook University) Generic vanishing on compact Kähler manifolds February 26, 2015 Camelia Pop (University of Pennsylvania) Harnack inequalities for degenerate diffusions February 17, 2015 Brent Werness (University of Washington) The geometry of conformally invariant random objects February 12, 2015 Shouwu Zhang (Princeton University) Congruent number problem and L-functions February 5, 2015 Sergei Tabachnikov (Penn State University) Proofs (not) from The Book February 4, 2015 John Milnor (Stony Brook University) Topology through the Centuries: Low Dimensional Manifolds November 20, 2014 Robin Pemantle (University of Pennsylvania) Combinatorics, probability and random functions November 13, 2014 Alexander Vishik (University of Nottingham) Quadratic forms and cohomological operations November 6, 2014 William Fulton (University of Michigan) On the Geometry of Double Schubert Polynomials October 30, 2014 Fernando Codá-Marques (Princeton University) Variational theory of minimal surfaces and applications October 23, 2014 Scott Sheffield (MIT) Chinese dragons and mating trees October 22, 2014 Daniel Tataru (UC Berkeley) Decay of waves on relativistic black hole space-times October 21, 2014 Thomas Nevins (UIUC) Morse Decomposition in Symplectic Algebraic Geometry October 16, 2014 Ovidiu Savin (Columbia University) Boundary regularity for Monge-Ampere equation October 9, 2014 Igor Pak (UCLA) Universality theorems in Algebra and Geometry September 25, 2014 Oleg Viro (Stony Brook University) Geometry and algebra of reflections September 18, 2014 Nick Trefethen (Oxford / NYU) Mathematics of the Faraday cage September 10, 2014 Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto) The KPZ equation and universality class September 4, 2014 Curtis McMullen (Harvard University) Billiards, the square root of eleven and a Teichmuller curve of genus one May 8, 2014 Mikhail Lyubich (Stony Brook University) Analytic Low-Dimensional Dynamics: from Dimension One to Two May 1, 2014 Joseph Silverman (Brown University) The Dynamical Complexity of Rational Maps and an Arithmetic Analogue April 24, 2014 Dusa McDuff (Barnard College) Embedding questions in symplectic geometry April 17, 2014 Robert Bryant (Duke University) Rolling surfaces and exceptional geometry April 11, 2014 Serge Cantat (Univ. Rennes/ENS) Topological Entropy and algebraic transformations April 10, 2014 Yitang Zhang (University New Hampshire/IAS) Small gaps between primes April 3, 2014 Sergei Tabachnikov (Penn State University) Pentagram Map, twenty years after March 13, 2014 Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard University) Analytic methods of constructing bundle sections and their geometric applications March 6, 2014 John H. Hubbard (Cornell University) Parabolic blowups in dynamics and hyperbolic geometry February 27, 2014 Joe Mitchell (Stony Brook University) How to See Things in the Most Efficient Way February 20, 2014 Zaher Hani (Courant) Energy cascades and weak turbulence for nonlinear dispersive equations February 6, 2014 Alexei Borodin (MIT) Integrable probability January 30, 2014 John Smillie (Cornell University and University of Warwick) Closed orbits on rational billiards November 7, 2013 Kari Vilonen (Northwestern University) The microlocal codimension-three conjecture October 31, 2013 Dietmar Salamon (ETH Zurich) Existence and uniqueness problems in symplectic topology October 24, 2013 Tatiana Toro (University of Washington) Geometry of Measures September 26, 2013 Brian Conrad (Stanford University) The ABC Conjecture September 12, 2013 Alexander Braverman (Brown University) The Tamagawa number formula for loop groups May 9, 2013 Ivan Mirkovic (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Loop Grassmannians May 7, 2013 Sir Simon Donaldson (Imperial College) Integral bounds on curvature and singularity formation May 2, 2013 Michael Zieve (University of Michigan) The functional equation f ○ p = g ○ q in dynamics, number theory, and analysis April 25, 2013 Eric Bedford (Indiana University) Dynamics of automorphisms and pseudo-automorphisms of complex manifolds April 4, 2013 Moon Duchin (Tufts University) Length spectra and singular flat surfaces March 28, 2013 Ravi Vakil (Stanford University) Cutting and pasting in algebraic geometry March 14, 2013 Araceli Bonifant (University of Rhode Island) Non-Archimedean Methods in Complex Dynamics March 7, 2013 Richard Hain (Duke University) Infinitesimal presentations of mapping class groups February 28, 2013 Steve Hofmann (University of Missouri) "Square Functions" and the Dirichlet Problem for Divergence Form Elliptic Equations February 21, 2013 Mark McLean (University of Aberdeen) Symplectic geometry of Stein manifolds and affine varieties February 14, 2013 Kevin Luli (Yale University) Fitting Nice Functions to Data: From a mathematician's point of view February 7, 2013 Cathy O'Neil (mathbabe.org) How Math is Used Outside Academia? December 6, 2012 Robert Guralnick [University of Southern California/ Princeton] Strongly Dense Free Subgroups November 29, 2012 Yuri Tschinkel (NYU/Courant Institute) Igusa integrals November 15, 2012 Maria Gordina (University of Connecticut) Heat kernel measures and Riemannian geometry on infinite-dimensional curved spaces November 8, 2012 Robert Lazarsfeld (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) What are the equations defining algebraic varieties? October 18, 2012 Aaron Naber (MIT) The Geometry of Ricci Curvature October 11, 2012 Mikhail Feldman (Universityof Wisconsin) Shock Reflection and von Neumann conjectures October 4, 2012 Anatoly Vershik (St. Petersburg State University) Invariant Ranodm Subgroups and Totally Nonfree Actions, with applications to the representation theory May 10, 2012 Assaf Naor (Courant Institute) Ultrametric skeletons April 19, 2012 Svetlozar Rachev (Stony Brook University) Mass-Transportation Problems and Probability Metrics March 29, 2012 Klaus Hulek (Leibniz Universitaet Hannover) Homogeneous domains and moduli spaces in algebraic geometry March 22, 2012 Vladimir Zakharov (Universty of Arizona) Search for integrable systems by the use of perturbation series March 15, 2012 Igor Krichever (Columbia University) Real-normalized differentials and geometry of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces March 1, 2012 Ilia Binder (University of Toronto) Percolation, Conformal welding, and SLE February 23, 2012 Brendan Hassett (Rice University) Arithmetic of K3 surfaces February 9, 2012 Gregory L. Lawler (University of Chicago) Random Fractals Coming from Statistical Physics February 2, 2012 Sir Michael Atiyah (University of Edinburgh) Points and Flags November 10, 2011 Elias Stein (Princeton University) and Charles Fefferman (Princeton University) Double Colloquium in Memory of Daryl Geller May 05, 2011 John Milnor(Stony Brook University/Institute for Mathematical Sciences) Spheres A historical account of work on topological spheres and on differentiable spheres April 28, 2011 Dennis Sullivan(Stony Brook University/City University of New York Graduate Center) Special Colloquium in Honor of Dennis Sullivan Winningthe 2010 Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics April 29, 2010 Hiroaki Terao(University of Wisconsin, Madison) On a Determinant Formula associated with a Real Arrangement of Hyperplanes March 6, 1997 (Note: First 15 minutes of lecture is not available) George Mackey(Harvard University) Representation Theory and Quantum Mechanics November 17, 1994 Emili Bifet(Stony Brook University) Tamagawa Numbers & Characteristic Classes October 27, 1994 Johan Louis Dupont(Aarhus University) Regulators/Deligne Cohomology October 20, 1994 Isadore M. Singer(MIT) The Gauss Linking Number April 1, 1993