Colloquium

The weekly colloquium features a talk by an invited speaker. Topics vary and include all areas of mathematics.

Unless otherwise noted, the colloquium takes place on Tuesdays, 14:00 in room 614, 6’th floor of the Science and Education Building. For further details, please contact the colloquium coordinator, Dr. Adam Dor-On.

Colloquium: Tuesday March 31, 2:10 pm. Speaker: Jakub Gismatullin. Title: Metric approximations of groups

Author: raphy March 31, 2015

I will report some recent results on groups with good metric approximation properties, called weak sofic and weak hyperlinear groups. The class of weak sofic groups was introduced by L. Glebsky and L. M. Rivera, as a generalization of the…
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Colloquium: Tuesday March 24, 2pm. Speaker: Barak Weiss (Tel Aviv). Title: Everything is Illuminated (Except for at Most Finitely Many Points)

Author: raphy March 24, 2015

Suppose a light source is placed in a polygonal hall of mirrors (so light can bounce off the walls). Does every point in the room get illuminated? This elementary geometrical question was open from the 1950s until Tokarsky (1995) found…
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Past Colloquium Talks

Author: raphy February 19, 2015

2015 Date Speaker Title 27/1 Anish Ghosh (Tata – Mumbai) Diophantine approximation and dynamical systems 20/1 Remi Coulon (CNRS) Periodic groups and there automorphisms 13/1 Ron Livne (Hebrew University) The Eratosthenes sieve – now and then 6/1 Amos Nevo (Technion)…
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