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Spring Semester 2013

Date / Time Speaker Title Location
26 February 2013
17:15-18:15
Prof. Dr. Victor Kac
MIT, USA
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Zurich Colloquium in Mathematics

Title Did Ramanujan know representation theory of affine Lie superalgebras?
Speaker, Affiliation Prof. Dr. Victor Kac, MIT, USA
Date, Time 26 February 2013, 17:15-18:15
Location KO2 F 150
Did Ramanujan know representation theory of affine Lie superalgebras?
KO2 F 150
* 19 March 2013
17:15-18:15
Prof. Dr. Curtis T McMullen
Harvard University, USA
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Zurich Colloquium in Mathematics

Title Billiards and curves in moduli space
Speaker, Affiliation Prof. Dr. Curtis T McMullen, Harvard University, USA
Date, Time 19 March 2013, 17:15-18:15
Location HG F 5
Billiards and curves in moduli space
HG F 5
25 March 2013
17:15-18:15
Prof. Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani
Stanford University, USA
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Zurich Colloquium in Mathematics

Title On random hyperbolic surfaces of large genus
Speaker, Affiliation Prof. Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford University, USA
Date, Time 25 March 2013, 17:15-18:15
Location KOL H 317
Abstract The moduli space of complete hyperbolic surfaces of genus g is equipped with a natural notion of measure, which is induced by the Weil-Petersson symplectic form. In this talk we will discuss some geometric properties of random hyperbolic surfaces of large genus with respect to this measure. Examples of such properties are the distribution of lengths of short closed geodesics and the Cheeger constant.
On random hyperbolic surfaces of large genusread_more
KOL H 317
9 April 2013
17:15-18:15
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Serfaty
New York University
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Zurich Colloquium in Mathematics

Title Questions of crystallization in Coulomb gases
Speaker, Affiliation Prof. Dr. Sylvia Serfaty, New York University
Date, Time 9 April 2013, 17:15-18:15
Location KO2 F 150
Questions of crystallization in Coulomb gases
KO2 F 150
16 April 2013
17:15-18:15
Prof. Dr. André Arroja Neves
Imperial College London, UK
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Zurich Colloquium in Mathematics

Title Minimal surfaces and the Willmore conjecture
Speaker, Affiliation Prof. Dr. André Arroja Neves, Imperial College London, UK
Date, Time 16 April 2013, 17:15-18:15
Location KO2 F 150
Abstract In 1965 Willmore conjectured that the least bended immersion of a torus in space is given by the Clifford torus (and their conformal images). I will talk about history of the problem and its solution, due to Fernando Marques and myself, which uses the min-max theory of minimal surfaces.
Minimal surfaces and the Willmore conjectureread_more
KO2 F 150

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