{"id":187,"date":"2015-02-19T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T07:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/?p=187"},"modified":"2015-02-19T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T07:55:10","slug":"past-colloquium-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Past Colloquium Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

2015<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
27\/1<\/td>\nAnish Ghosh (Tata – Mumbai)<\/td>\nDiophantine approximation and dynamical systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20\/1<\/td>\nRemi Coulon (CNRS)<\/td>\nPeriodic groups and there automorphisms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13\/1<\/td>\nRon Livne (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nThe Eratosthenes sieve – now and then<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6\/1<\/td>\nAmos Nevo (Technion)<\/td>\nSpectral theory, effective ergodic theorems and applications to Diophantine approximation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2014<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
30\/12<\/td>\nDavid Dynerman (Wisconsin)<\/td>\nDescribing geometry and symmetry of cryo-EM datasets using algebra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23\/12<\/td>\nDavid Fisher (Indiana)<\/td>\nGroups acting on manifolds: around the Zimmer program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/12<\/td>\nAmnon Besser (Ben Gurion)<\/td>\np-adic methods in the solution of equations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25\/11<\/td>\nAmnon Yekutieli (Ben Gurion)<\/td>\nNonabelian Multiplicative Integration on Surfaces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18\/11<\/td>\nZeev Rudnick (Tel Aviv)<\/td>\nSums of three squares and spatial statistics on the sphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/11<\/td>\nYair Glasner (Ben Gurion)<\/td>\nGroup theoretic methods in non-free ergodic theory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/11<\/td>\nIlan Barnea<\/td>\nFrom weak fibration categories to model categories<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/6<\/td>\nMichael Entov (Technion)<\/td>\nQuasi-morphisms and quasi-states in symplectic topology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27\/5<\/td>\nEli Aljadeff (Technion)<\/td>\nGraded Algebras and polynomial identities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29\/4<\/td>\nYulan Qing (Technion)<\/td>\nBoundaries of CAT(0) Groups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22\/4<\/td>\nMichael Hochman (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nSelf-similar sets, dimension and additive combinatorics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/4<\/td>\nDoron Puder (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nWords Maps and Measure Preservation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/4<\/td>\nMichael Farber (Warwick)<\/td>\nGeometry and topology of large random spaces and groups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25\/3<\/td>\nRishi Vyas (Ben Gurion)<\/td>\nMinimal injective resolutions of modules over noetherian rings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18\/3<\/td>\nDan Szpruch (Purdue)<\/td>\nOn the local representation theory of the metaplectic and similitude metaplectic groups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/3<\/td>\nLeonid Brodsky (Haifa)<\/td>\nComputational biology: exciting time of whole genome studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/3<\/td>\nNathan Keller (Bar Ilan)<\/td>\nOn influences, correlation inequalities, and a conjecture of Chvatal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7\/1<\/td>\nShamgar Gurevich (Wisconsin – Madison)<\/td>\nThe incidence and cross methods for efficient radar detection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2013<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
31\/12<\/td>\nChen Meiri (Chicago University)<\/td>\nThe group large sieve<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24\/12<\/td>\nMichael Brandenbursky<\/td>\nMetrics and groups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17\/12<\/td>\nEsther Ezra (Courant)<\/td>\nGeometric Discrepancy Via the Entropy Method<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/12<\/td>\nBaptiste Devyver (Technion)<\/td>\nOptimal Hardy-type inequalities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/12<\/td>\nShaul Zemel (Universitat Darmstadt)<\/td>\nA Gross-Kohnen-Zagier type theorem for higher-codimensional heegner cycles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26\/11<\/td>\nNatan Rubin (Paris 6)<\/td>\nOn topological changes in the Delaunay triangulation of moving points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19\/11<\/td>\nRoy Meshulam (Technion)<\/td>\nRandom Latin squares and cohomological expanders<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5\/11<\/td>\nRon Aharoni (Technion)<\/td>\nOn a decomposition conjecture of Rota<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29\/10<\/td>\nMark Berman (Ort Braude)<\/td>\nA Lie ring whose proisomorphic local zeta functions lack a functional equation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22\/10<\/td>\nSergei Starchenko (Notre Dame)<\/td>\nOn Peterzil-Steinhorn subgroups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/6<\/td>\nEmily Landes (Technion)<\/td>\nCharacter Varieties: One good reason a Topologist Cares about Algebraic Geometry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/6<\/td>\nRon Livne (Hebrew Univ.)<\/td>\nGreek mathematics in the bible<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28\/5<\/td>\nDaniel Spector (Technion)<\/td>\nThe Sobolev spaces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7\/5<\/td>\nZlil Sela (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nLow dimensional topology and the elementary theory of groups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23\/4<\/td>\nShoham Sabach (Tel Aviv)<\/td>\nA First Order Method for Finding Minimal Norm-Like Solutions of Convex Optimization Problems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/4<\/td>\nLior Bary-Soroker (Tel Aviv)<\/td>\nPrime polynomials in short intervals and long arithmetic progressions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19\/3<\/td>\nShizuo Kaji (Yamaguchi University)<\/td>\nWeyl group action on GKM-graph<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/3<\/td>\nMartin Hills (Paris 7)<\/td>\nFinite rank expansions of algebraically closed fields<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/1<\/td>\nJoan S. Birman (Columbia)<\/td>\nThe curve complex of a surface<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/1<\/td>\nLiat Kessler (Haifa)<\/td>\nToric actions on symplectic blowups of the complex projective plane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2012<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
25\/12<\/td>\nShamgar Gurevich (Wisconsin – Madison)<\/td>\nBounds on Characters of SL_2(F_q) via Theta Correspondence, with Application to Ore Conjecture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18\/12<\/td>\nCrystal Hoyt (Technion)<\/td>\nRepresentation theory of Lie superalgebras<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/12<\/td>\nDaoud Bashouty (Technion)<\/td>\nHarmonic Mappings and Affine capacity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/12<\/td>\nMatthias Keller (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nPeriodic and Random Schroedinger Operators on Trees<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27\/11<\/td>\nMark Branson (Technion)<\/td>\nFrom Hamiltonian Dynamics to Symplectic Topology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20\/11<\/td>\nPierre Simon (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nVC-dimension: a point of contact between combinatorics and model theory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13\/11<\/td>\nAlvaro R. De Pierro (Campinas)<\/td>\nInverse problems, Optimization, and Information Geometry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6\/11<\/td>\nYair Censor (Haifa)<\/td>\nSuperiorization via Feasibility-Seeking Projection Methods and Applications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30\/10<\/td>\nMicah Sageev (Technion)<\/td>\nThe Virtual Haken Conjecture and CAT(0) cube complexes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19\/6<\/td>\nJonathan Arazy (Haifa)<\/td>\nApplications of infinite dimensional holomorphy to geometry of complex Banach spaces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/6<\/td>\nAmir Yehudayoff (Technion)<\/td>\nSome reconstruction problems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5\/6<\/td>\nEitan Sayag (Ben Gurion)<\/td>\nDecay and Counting Lattice points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29\/5<\/td>\nStephen Gelbart (Weizmann)<\/td>\nThe Mysteries of the Riemann Zeta Function, and Beyond<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22\/5<\/td>\nSergei Yakovenko (Weizmann)<\/td>\nCan a transcendental function have a degree?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15\/5<\/td>\nYonatan Harpaz (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nHigher Categories and the Cobordism Hypothesis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24\/4<\/td>\nElon Lindenstrauss (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nHomogeneous Dynamics and Diagonalizable Actions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17\/4<\/td>\nMalka Schaps (Bar Ilan)<\/td>\nKhovanov-Lauda diagrams and representations of the symmetric group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27\/3<\/td>\nEvgenii Shustin (Tel Aviv)<\/td>\nEnumerative geometry of real algebraic surfaces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20\/3<\/td>\nYaron Ostrover (Tel Aviv)<\/td>\nBilliard dynamics from a symplectic geometry point of view<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13\/3<\/td>\nTamar Ziegler (Technion)<\/td>\nLinear equations in primes and nilpotent groups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24\/1<\/td>\nMichael Schein (Bar-Ilan)<\/td>\nAn application of representation theory to approximation theory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17\/1<\/td>\nIlya Tyomkin (BGU)<\/td>\nTropical approach to algebraic geometry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/1<\/td>\nFrol Zapolsky (IHES)<\/td>\nQuasi-states in classical mechanics and applications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/1<\/td>\nShamgar Gurevich (Madison)<\/td>\nFast Matched Filter in Linear Time and Group Representation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2011<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
20\/12<\/td>\nYakov Varshavsky (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nLefschetz trace formula and Deligne’s conjecture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13\/12<\/td>\nJake Solomon (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nSymplectic geometry and the intersection number<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6\/12<\/td>\nGenadi Levin (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nSpaces of rational maps and holomorphic dynamics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29\/11<\/td>\nMichael Polyak (Technion)<\/td>\nCounting real curves with passage\/tangency conditions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22\/11<\/td>\nJean Lecureux (Technion)<\/td>\nBuildings, old and new<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15\/11<\/td>\nVictoria Mart\u00c3\u00adn M\u00c3\u00a1rquez (Universidad de Sevilla)<\/td>\nSplit feasibility problem: Recent advances and applications in signal processing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/11<\/td>\nLior Bary Soroker<\/td>\nIrreducible values of polynomials<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14\/6<\/td>\nZiv Shami<\/td>\nCategoricity and unidimensionality<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/4<\/td>\nShoham Shamir (Bergen)<\/td>\nComplete intersections in rational homotopy theory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5\/4<\/td>\nShmuel Onn (Technion)<\/td>\nThe Graver Complexity of Integer Programming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29\/3<\/td>\nDaniel Keren (University of Haifa)<\/td>\nGeometric Methods for Monitoring Distributed Streams<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22\/3<\/td>\nUri Bader (Technion)<\/td>\nLattices and envelopes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/3<\/td>\nSolomon Marcus (Romanian Academy)<\/td>\nFrom the Euclidean to the Non-Euclidean Paradigm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/1<\/td>\nAdi Ben-Israel (Rutgers University)<\/td>\nInverse Newton Transform<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5\/1<\/td>\nDanny Hermelin (Max Planck Institut)<\/td>\nMinimum Vertex Cover in Rectangle Graphs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2010<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
28\/12<\/td>\nYosef Yomdin (Weizmann Institute)<\/td>\nRemez-type inequalities and Algebraic signal reconstruction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21\/12<\/td>\nDmitry Kerner (Ben Gurion University)<\/td>\nOn the determinantal representations of hypersurfaces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14\/12<\/td>\nViorica Motreanu (Ben Gurion University)<\/td>\nOn nonlinear error bounds for lower semicontinuous functions on metric spaces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7\/12<\/td>\nFrancois Loeser (U. Pierre et Marie Curie)<\/td>\nAnalysis and Topology on some totally disconnected spaces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30\/11<\/td>\nAviv Censor (Tel-Aviv University)<\/td>\nTowards Topological Groupoidification<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23\/11<\/td>\nAbraham B. Korol (University of Haifa)<\/td>\nComplex dynamics, sexual reproduction and adaptive evolution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16\/11<\/td>\nNayantara Bhatnagar (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nReconstruction in Trees for Colorings and Independent sets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/11<\/td>\nMaurice Herlihy (Brown University)<\/td>\nApplications of Shellable Complexes to Distributed Computing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26\/10<\/td>\nItay Ben Yaacov (Institut Camille Jordan)<\/td>\nOn categoricity in metric structures<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25\/5<\/td>\nNaftali Tishbi (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nRobust tradeoff between value and information in process learning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/5<\/td>\nShiri Artstein-Avidan (Tel-Aviv)<\/td>\nOn dualities and other characterization results<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/5<\/td>\nMichael Bjorklund (Hebrew University)<\/td>\nMultiplicative combinatorics on the large scale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27\/4<\/td>\nTatiana M. Bandman (Bar Ilan University)<\/td>\nGeometry and arithmetic of verbal dynamical systems on simple groups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23\/3<\/td>\nTefera Worku (University of Addis Ababa)<\/td>\nOrdinary Differntial Equations and Functional Analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16\/3<\/td>\nLeonid Makar-Limanov (Wayne State Univ.)<\/td>\nOn the Newton polytope related to the two-dimensional Jacobian Conjecture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/3<\/td>\nJack Sonn (Technion)<\/td>\nMinimal ramification problem in Galois theory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5\/1<\/td>\nGidi Amir (Toronto)<\/td>\nLiouville, amenability, automaton groups and random walks on discrete fractals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2009<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
22\/12<\/td>\nDan Hefetz (ETH Zurich)<\/td>\nOn two generalizations of the Alon-Tarsi polynomial method<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/12<\/td>\nEran Nevo (Cornell)<\/td>\nFace enumeration: from spheres to flag spheres<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24\/11<\/td>\nDmitry Kerner (BGU)<\/td>\nOn the discriminant of plane curves and its strata<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17\/11<\/td>\nKathryn Hess (EPFL)<\/td>\nFree loop spaces in topology and physics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27\/10<\/td>\nLars Elden (Link\u00d7ping)<\/td>\nTensor Computations and Applications in Data Mining<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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)…
Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colloquium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}