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MSI Colloquium 2018
Each Thursday afternoon a distinguished academic presents his or her research via our colloquia events.
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Past events
28
Feb
2019
What is...(finitary) 2-representation theory? »
This talk will be an introduction to the field of (finitary) 2-representation theory (which one can think of as being a categorical lift of representation theory of finite-dimensional algebras), as well as a survey of the state of the art.
13
Dec
2018
Joint MSI and Student Colloquium: 2018 Fields Medals II »
James Borger and Andrew Hassell will shed light on the mathematical work that merited the 2018 Fields Medals awarded to Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh.
04
Dec
2018
Joint RSAA & MSI colloquium: Plasma heating and particle acceleration in solar and tokamak twisted flux ropes »
In this joint colloquium with RSAA, Prof Phillipa Browning will discuss plasma heating and particle acceleration in solar and tokamak twisted flux ropes.
01
Nov
2018
Mahler Public Lecture: Beyond the Gaussian universality class »
In this talk, Prof Corwin will discuss the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang class. This talk will be aimed at a very general audience and will feature almost no equations and lots interesting phenomena, videos and examples.
31
Oct
2018
Hopf algebras and 3D TQFTs »
In this talk, Prof Beliakova will define a notion of Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT)
25
Oct
2018
Persistent cohomology and circular coordinates »
In this talk, Associate Professor De Silva will talk about persistent cohomology to find circle-valued coordinate functions.
18
Oct
2018
Joint MSI and Student Colloquium: 2018 Fields Medals I »
Anand Deopurkar and john Urbas will shed light on the mathematical work that merited the 2018 Fields Medals awarded to Caucher Birkar and Alessio Figalli.
27
Sep
2018
Patterns of obsession »
In this talk, Richard Hassell will discuss tessellation art, the recurrent tropes of his practice, and the interconnectivity between nature, mathematics, art and architecture.
26
Sep
2018
From Kleinian singularities to Khovanov homology »
In this talk, Prof Catharina Stroppel will make a little tour from the classical theory of singularities in the sense of Felix Klein to modern developments in representation theory.
30
Aug
2018
On the concentration of eigenfunctions »
Prof Chris Sogge from John Hopkins University will present some results in global harmonic analysis that concern properties of eigenfunctions on compact Riemannian manifolds.
09
Aug
2018
The mathematics of fusion plasmas »
If realised on Earth, fusion power offers a near unlimited supply of clean, sustainable power. The newest research activity addition to MSI: “Plasma Theory and Modelling”, uses reduced models to capture the configuration and phase-space complexity of high performance fusion experiments.
31
May
2018
Satellite operation and Legendrian knots »
MSI Colloquium
24
May
2018
15
Mar
2018
At the interface between quantum chemistry and mathematics : the surface hopping algorithms »
Starting with the formalism of quantum physics, we shall give an overview of some mathematical questions which raise in the context of the description of molecular dynamics.
