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, December 21, 2021. Speaker: Liran Shaul (Charles University). Title: “The Cohen-Macaulay property, its applications”.

Author: December 16, 2021

Dear all, The next colloquium for this semester will be held ONLINE on 21.12.2021 at 14:00 (Tuesday). Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82797905845?pwd=VUxHdkwyRzZIOHdDWkF2OC92U0p6UT09 Speaker: Liran Shaul (Charles University) Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 Time: 14:00 Title: The Cohen-Macaulay property, its applications and generalizations…
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Colloquium: Tuesday, December 14, 2021. Speaker: Jacob Shapiro (Princeton). Title: “Strongly-Disordered Topological Insulators”.

Author: December 9, 2021

The next colloquium for this semester will be held ONLINE on 14.12.2021 at 14:00 (Tuesday). Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82797905845?pwd=VUxHdkwyRzZIOHdDWkF2OC92U0p6UT09 Speaker: Jacob Shapiro (Princeton) Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 Time: 14:00 Title: Strongly-Disordered Topological Insulators Abstract: Topological insulators are novel materials which…
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Colloquium: Tuesday, December 7, 2021. Speaker: Naomi Feldheim (Bar-Ilan). Title: “A spectral perspective on Gaussian stationary processes”.

Author: December 3, 2021

The next colloquium for this semester will be held ONLINE on 7.12.2021 at 14:00 (Tuesday). Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82797905845?pwd=VUxHdkwyRzZIOHdDWkF2OC92U0p6UT09 Speaker: Naomi Feldheim (Bar-Ilan University) Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 Time: 14:00 Title: A spectral perspective on Gaussian stationary processes Abstract: Consider…
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Colloquium: Tuesday, November 30, 2021. Speaker: Yotam Smilansky (Rutgers University). Title: “Order and disorder in multiscale substitution tilings”.

Author: November 25, 2021

The next colloquium for this semester will be held ONLINE on 30.11.2021 at 14:00 (Tuesday). Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82797905845?pwd=VUxHdkwyRzZIOHdDWkF2OC92U0p6UT09 Speaker: Yotam Smilansky (Rutgers University) Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 Time: 14:00 Title: Order and disorder in multiscale substitution tilings Abstract: The…
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Colloquium: Tuesday, November 23, 2021. Speaker: Yael Karshon (Tel Aviv University, University of Toronto). Title: “Symplectic excision”.

Author: November 18, 2021

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82797905845?pwd=VUxHdkwyRzZIOHdDWkF2OC92U0p6UT09 Speaker: Yael Karshon (Tel Aviv University, University of Toronto) Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 Time: 14:00 Title: Symplectic excision Abstract: Removing a properly embedded ray from a (noncompact) manifold does not affect its topology nor its diffeotype. What…
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Colloquium: Tuesday, November 16, 2021. Speaker: Amir Algom (Penn State). Title: “Title: Recent progress on Furstenberg’s rigidity conjectures”.

Author: November 14, 2021

The next colloquium for this semester will be held ONLINE on 16.11.2021 at 14:00 (this Tuesday). Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82797905845?pwd=VUxHdkwyRzZIOHdDWkF2OC92U0p6UT09 Speaker: Amir Algom (Penn State) Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 Time: 14:00 Title: Recent progress on Furstenberg’s rigidity conjectures Abstract: In…
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Colloquium: Tuesday, November 2, 2021. Speaker: Dmitry Faifman (Tel Aviv). Title: “Intrinsic volumes and Weyl’s principle in valuation theory”.

Author: October 31, 2021

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82797905845?pwd=VUxHdkwyRzZIOHdDWkF2OC92U0p6UT09 Speaker: Dmitry Faifman (Tel Aviv University) Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Time: 14:00 Title: Intrinsic volumes and Weyl’s principle in valuation theory Abstract: First we will recall the fundamental notion of intrinsic volumes, known as quermassintegrals in…
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Colloquium: Tuesday, October 26, 2021. Speaker: Jonathan Mosheiff (Carnegie Mellon University). Title: “Derandomization of elementary error correcting code ensembles”.

Author: October 20, 2021

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82797905845?pwd=VUxHdkwyRzZIOHdDWkF2OC92U0p6UT09 An error correcting code is a subset C of F_q^n. We usually want C to be 1) large, 2) well-spread and 3) efficiently decodable. Elementary random constructions, such as taking C to be a uniformly random linear subspace…
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U. of Haifa Colloquium 15/6/21

Author: June 9, 2021

Speaker: Michael Farber (University of London) Topic: Ample simplicial complexes. Place: This is an online seminar. Please email Yuval Ginosar “ginosar at math dot haifa dot ac dot il” for the Zoom ID and password. Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 Time: 14:00 Abstract: Motivated by…
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