MSI Colloquium 2018

Each Thursday afternoon a distinguished academic presents his or her research via our colloquia events.

Upcoming events

27
Sep
2018

Patterns of obsession »

4pm 27 September 2018
Richard Hassell, Founding Director WOHA Singapore
In this talk, Richard Hassell will discuss tessellation art, the recurrent tropes of his practice, and the interconnectivity between nature, mathematics, art and architecture.
18
Oct
2018

Joint MSI and Student Colloquium: 2018 Fields Medals I »

4pm 18 October 2018
Dr Anand Deopurkar (MSI), Professor John Urbas (MSI)
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.
25
Oct
2018

Joint MSI and Student Colloquium: 2018 Fields Medals II »

4pm 25 October 2018
Dr James Borger (MSI), Professor Andrew Hassell (MSI)
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.

Past events

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 »
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24
May
2018

Waldhausen’s theorem fifty years on: proofs and generalizations. »
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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.