The colloquium is held on Mondays 4:00-5:00 in Deady Hall, Room 208, unless additional information is posted.

Tea and cookies are served at 3:30 in the mathematics department lounge in Fenton.

Spring Quarter, 2005

• March 9 - Alexandre Kirillov - University of Pennsylvania.
  A tale on two fractals
  This is the first of three Niven Lectures to be given this week by Professor Kirillov.
• TUESDAY April 12 - Peng Lu - University of Oregon.
  Ricci flow on locally homogeneous closed 4-manifolds
  Joint UO-OSU colloquium held at the OSU campus in Corvallis.
• April 25 - Richard Schoen - Stanford University.
  The Yamabe problem revisited
  This is the first of three Moursund Lectures to be given this week by Professor Schoen.
• May 2 - Maria Gorelik - Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
  Centers of classical Lie superalgebras
• May 9 - Michael Finkelberg - University of Chicago and Independent Moscow University.
  Finite difference quantum Toda lattice, and quantum K-theory of flag manifolds
• May 16 - David Maxwell - University of Alaska.
  The continuing effectiveness of the conformal method of solving the Einstein constraint equations
• May 23 - Charles Doran - University of Washington.
  Mirror symmetry, variations of Hodge structure, and K-theory

Winter Quarter, 2005

• January 10 - Steve Mitchell - University of Washington.
  The Iwasawa algebra in number theory and topology
• February 28 - Eric Sommers - University of Massachusetts.
  The generalized Catalan number
• March 7 - Pete Casazza - University of Missouri.
  Applications of Hilbert space frames
• March 14 - Vladimir Retakh - Rutgers University.
  Non-commutative total positivity

Fall Quarter, 2004

• October 4 - Richard Askey - University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  Orthogonal polynomials and some applications, including some determinants and combinatorial results
• October 11 - Jim Isenberg - University of Oregon.
  Wormholes, broken clocks, and job fraud
• October 18 - John Conway - Princeton University.
  Pascal's Hexagrammum Mysticum
• November 1 - Guershon Harel - USCD.
  On the Development of Students' Conceptions of Proof
• November 8 - Pavel Etingof - MIT.
  Hochschild Cohomology of Preprojective Algebras
• November 15 - Kiyoshio Igusa - Brandeis University.
  Semi-Invariants, Root Systems, Associahedra and Nilpotent Groups
• November 22 - Jeffrey Rabin - UCSD.
  Supercurves and Their Duals
• November 29 - Ryan Budney - University of Oregon.
  Parametrized Constructions and Spaces of Things