Stony Brook Mathematics Colloquiums Video Archive

Sebastien Boucksom (Sorbonne Universite)
Non-Archimedean pluripotential theory and K-stability
March 30, 2023
Dallas Albritton (Princeton University)
Instability, non-uniqueness, and unpredictability in the partial differential equations of fluid dynamics
March 9, 2023
Antoine Song (Caltech)
Mapping Riemannian manifolds in metric spaces
March 2, 2023
Alexei Mailybaev (IMPA)
Spontaneous stochasticity in multi-scale dynamics
February 23, 2023
Christian Schnell (Stony Brook University)
Hodge Theory and Langrangian Fibrations
February 16, 2023
Robin Neumayer (Carnegie Mellon University)
Quantitative Stability in the Calculus of Variations
November 10, 2022
Grigoris Paouris (Texas A&M University)
Recent development on Dvoretzky's Theorem
November 3, 2022
Ovidiu Savin (Columbia University)
The Multiple Membrane Problem
October 27, 2022
Michail Savvas (University of Texas at Austin)
Enumerative Geometry through Sheaves
October 20, 2022
Oanh Nguyen (Brown University)
Universality for random polynomials: framework and applications
October 13, 2022
Alexandros Eskenazis (CNRS, Sorbonne Universite)
Learning low-degree functions on the discrete hypercube
October 6, 2022
Dror Varolin (Stony Brook University)
Hilbert Spaces of Square Integrable Holomorphic Functions
September 29, 2022
Zhiren Wang (Penn State University)
Classification of smooth actions by higher rank lattices in critical dimensions
September 15, 2022
Christopher Lutsko (Rutgers University)
A Spectral Approach to Counting Problems
September 1, 2022
Joseph Landsberg (Texas A&M University)
Geometry and the complexity of matrix multiplication
October 14, 2021
Tarek Elgindi (Duke University)
Singularity formation in the Euler Equation
October 7, 2021
Philippe G. LeFloch (Sorbonne University and CNRS)
On the scattering laws of bouncing universes
May 6, 2021
Hee Oh (Yale University)
Unipotent flows on hyperbolic manifolds, á la Ratner
April 29, 2021
Bryna Kra (Northwestern University)
Symmetries in symbolic dynamics
April 8, 2021
Robert Lazarsfeld (Stony Brook University)
How irrational is an irrational variety?
April 1, 2021
William Minicozzi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Mean curvature flow in high co-dimension
March 25, 2021
Kevin Buzzard (Imperial)
Proving theorems with computers
March 18, 2021
Curtis T. McMullen (Harvard University)
Billiards and the arithmetic of non-arithmetic groups
March 11, 2021
Predrag Cvitanović (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Do clouds solve PDEs?
March 4, 2021
Mark McLean (Stony Brook University)
Floer Cohomology and Arc Spaces
February 25, 2021
Christopher Bishop (Stony Brook University)
Weil-Petersson curves, beta-numbers and minimal surfaces
February 18, 2021
Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)
A solution of a problem of Enflo
February 11, 2021
Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard University)
Random matrix statistics - A new class of statistical laws for highly correlated systems
December 3, 2020
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
Scott Sheffield (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Smooth planar maps and Laplacian determinants
March 5, 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
Nigel Hitchin (Oxford University)
Semiflat hyperkähler manifolds and their submanifolds
October 25, 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
Piotr Sulkowski, (University of Warsaw (Poland) & Caltech)
Categorification in mathematical physics workshop Colloquium: Knots-quivers correspondence
April 12, 2018
John Milnor (Stony Brook University/Institute for Mathematical Sciences)
Points on a Circle: from Pappus to Thurston
April 5, 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
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/Institute for Mathematical Sciences)
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 Winning
the 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