CMS Colloquia


2007-10-29 17:00: The Langlands correspondence: prime numbers, symmetry and algebraic geometry (Dr Teruyoshi Yoshida (DPMMS))

2008-03-03 17:00:  Singularities of Harmonic Maps, Minimal Surfaces and Mean Curvature Flows ( Dr Neshan Wickramasekera (DPMMS))

2008-04-28 17:00: Astrophysical Accretion and Bright Black Holes (Dr Gordon I. Ogilvie (DAMTP))

2008-05-19 17:30: Chance is a Fine Thing (David Spiegelhalter  (Cambridge))

2008-06-02 17:00: Maps and Graphs on Surfaces (Professor C Thomassen (Technical University of Denmark))

2008-10-20 16:30: Uses of D-branes (Dr D. Tong (DAMTP))

2008-10-20 17:15: D-branes and Derived Categories (Prof. T.A. Bridgeland (Sheffield))

2008-11-17 17:00: Reversibility, Chaos and Self-Organization (Prof. J. Gollub (DAMTP and Haverford Coll.))

2009-01-26 17:00: Genus-minimizing surfaces (Dr Jake Rasmussen (DPMMS))

2009-02-16 17:00: How to Sequence 1000 Human Genomes Efficiently (Professor Richard Durbin, Sanger Institute, Hinxton)

2009-03-02 17:00: Effective evolution equations from many body quantum dynamics (Dr Benjamin Schlein (DPMMS))

2009-05-11 17:00: Langlands' functorality viewed as a kind of function theoretic Poisson formula problem (Prof. L. Lafforgue, IHES)

2009-05-18 17:00: QRT maps and elliptic surfaces (Prof. J.J. Duistermaat, Utrecht)

2009-10-19 17:00: The Cauchy problem in general relativity (Dr Mihalis Dafermos)

2009-11-30 17:00: Integrability and String Theory (Professor Nick Dorey)

2010-01-25 17:00: Special values of L-functions - an Ariadne's thread in number theory (Professor Don Zagier (College de France))

2010-02-01 17:00: Recent advances on quantum systems with random Hamiltonians (Professor Yuri Suhov (DPMMS))

2010-03-08 17:00: Dynamics of superfluid states of matter (Dr Natasha Berloff (DAMTP))

2010-05-11 14:45: Phase Transitions:  Scaling, Universality and  Renormalization (Professor Leo P. Kadanoff University of Chicago and Perimeter Institute)

2010-10-18 17:00: The Pointless Universe (Professor Michael Green DAMTP)

2011-02-07 17:00: Solving Linear Equations (Professor Arieh Iserles (DAMTP))

2011-04-26 14:00: An afternoon of Mathematics and Biology (Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute),  Glenn Vinnicombe (Engineering Department), Ottoline Leyser (Sainsbury Laboratory))

2011-11-21 17:00: Black holes and extra dimensions (Dr Harvey Reall, DAMTP)

2012-05-28 17:00: The Topological Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality (Danny Calegari (Cambridge))

2012-11-19 17:00: Curvature, Sphere Theorems, and the Ricci Flow (Prof. Simon Brendle (Stanford))

2013-04-25 14:00: WHAT GALOIS THEORY CAN TEACH US ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS: A COSMIC GALOIS GROUP?  (Pierre Cartier (Institut Des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques))

2013-11-11 17:00: Image reconstruction from corrupted and undersampled data (Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, DAMTP)

2014-03-03 17:00: The Accelerating Universe (Professor Anne-Christine Davis, University of Cambridge)

2014-04-28 17:00: Relativistic Quantum Cryptography: controlling Information by fundamental physics (Adrian Kent, DAMTP)

2014-10-03 16:00: Peter Whittle Colloquium (Yuval Peres (MSR Redmond) ,   Bálint Tóth (TU Budapest/U Bristol) ,  Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich) )

2014-11-17 17:00: Wild and tame behaviour in group theory  (Henry Wilton (DPMMS, Cambridge))

2015-01-28 14:00: An afternoon of talks exploring the links between classical information theory, probability, statistics and their quantum counterparts. (Reinhard Werner (Hannover), Fernando  Brandao (Microsoft Research),  Robert Koenig (TU Munich), Renato Renner (ETH Zurich))

2015-02-23 17:00:  Purely Kinetic Lagrangians.  (Professor Nick Manton, DAMTP.)

2015-10-19 17:00: Computation, Dynamics, Evidence, and Experience: Quantum Computing Colloquium (Charlie Bennett (Variously Principal Scientist, Fellow, IBM Research Headquarters, NY))

2015-11-23 17:00: Langlands and arithmetic (Jack Thorne (Cambridge))

2016-01-18 17:00: The black hole information paradox re-visited (Andrew Strominger, Gwill E. York Professor of Physics, Harvard University)

2016-02-26 17:30: *CYCLING PATHWAYS TO OCCUPY MARS* (Dr Buzz Aldrin)

2016-04-20 10:10: New Materials by Design (Professor Mike Cates, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP)

2016-04-20 10:35: The Particulars of Particulates (Dr Nathalie Vriend, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, DAMTP)

2016-04-20 11:00: Analysis of Motion Data for Healthcare and Rehabilitation (Dr Joan Lasenby, Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, Department of Engineering)

2016-04-20 11:45: Extreme Universe Computing (Professor Paul Shellard, Director, Centre for Theoretical Cosmology)

2016-04-20 12:10: Quantum Computing (Professor Richard Jozsa, Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics, DAMTP)

2016-04-20 12:35: Calculating Implied Volatility (Dr Mike Tehranchi, Statistical Laboratory, DPMMS)

2016-04-20 14:00: Seeing More in Images - a Mathematical Perspective (Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Director, Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information and Head of Cambridge Image Analysis, DAMTP)

2016-04-20 14:25: Computational Biology (Dr Stephen Eglen, DAMTP)

2016-04-20 14:50: Publicising Surgeons' Performance: the Maths of Naming and Shaming (Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, DPMMS)

2016-05-23 10:45: Dimers Day in Cambridge (Boutiller, Chhita, Dubedat, Laslier, Toninelli)

2016-06-27 17:00: Topology of the set of singularities of viscosity solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation (Albert Fathi (ENS Lyon))

2017-02-23 17:30: NATO: Hobbes to Trump - Motion and Emotion - Can Mathematicians help? (James Bergeron, NATO)

2017-05-08 17:00:  Bose in Boxes  (Persi Diaconis (Stanford))

2018-10-09 16:00: Skyrmion Vibrations (Chris Halcrow (Leeds))

2018-10-10 17:00: When Statistics Meets Computing (Professor Tony Cai (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania))

2018-10-16 16:00: Kinks with Long-range Tails (Nick Manton (DAMTP))

2018-10-25 16:00: Making Sense of the Standard Model: an Exceptional Quantum Algebra (Ivan Todorov (Sofia, Bulgaria))

2018-10-30 16:00: Newton-Cartan Gravity with Unconstrained Torsion: a Galilean General Theory of Gravity (Marco Cariglia (U. Fed. Ouro Preto, Brazil))

2018-11-06 16:00: Loop Correlations in Random Wire Models (Costanza Benassi (Northumbria))

2018-11-20 16:00: Topological Terms in Sigma Models on Homogeneous Spaces (Joe Davighi (DAMTP))

2018-12-03 13:00: Radial excitations of superconducting (Witten) vortices (Patrick Peter (DAMTP, and Inst. Astrophys. Paris))

2019-10-14 16:30: Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation  (Elchanan Mossel (MIT))

2022-03-17 17:00: Demystifying Deep Learning (Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin))

2022-10-27 17:00: Resampling methods for networks (Liza Levina (Michigan))

2023-10-18 16:30: A new coefficient of correlation  (Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) )

2025-03-13 16:30: Algorithmic stability for regression and classification (Rina Foygel Barber  (Chicago))

2026-03-12 16:30: The role of Random  Matrix Theory for the optimization algorithms of Machine Learning  (Gérard Ben Arous  (Courant))