The Departmental Colloquia series began in 2010. The purpose of the series is two fold: to hear from some of the world's leading mathematicians and statisticians, and to provide a forum for the department (faculty, research fellows, and postgraduate students) to meet.
There is usually a reception following the talk, with an opportunity to meet the speaker (pre-COVID19 arrangements).
Past Colloquia 2010-2016
- 2016 (Rosenbaum, Granville, Milton, Mallat, Bridson)
- 2015 (Diaconis, Newell, Joshi, Schoen)
- 2014 (Gelman, Davis, Green, Caffarelli, Hairer)
- 2013 (Serfaty, Senn, Tenenbaum, Bertozzi)
- 2012 (Werner, Fokas, McCullagh)
- 2011 (Cox, Otto, Embrechts)
- 2010 (Gowers, Lieb, Sinai)
2016 (Rosenbaum, Granville, Milton, Mallat, Bridson)
- Prof Martin Bridson (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)
"Infinite groups: A story of geometry, complexity and shadows"
Thursday 10th November 2016
Click here for further details, including the abstract - Prof Stéphane Mallat (École Normale Supérieure)
"High-Dimensional Learning and Deep Neural Networks"
Thursday 27th October 2016
Click here for further details, including the asbtract - Prof Graeme W. Milton (University of Utah)
"Extending the Theory of Composites to Other Areas of Science"
Thursday 16th June 2016
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- Prof Andrew Granville (University of Montreal & UCL)
"The pretentious Riemann Hypothesis and beyond"
Thursday 5th May 2016
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- Prof Paul Rosenbaum (University of Pennsylvania)
"A Recent Observational Study used to Illustrate Recent Methdology for Such Studies"
Thursday 25th February 2016
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This colloquium was part of a Nelder Lecture Series. Please see Professor Rosenbaum's Nelder Fellow webpage for more information.
2015 (Diaconis, Newell, Joshi, Schoen)
- Prof Richard Schoen (Stanford University and University of California, Irvine)
"Eigenvalue problems for surfaces"
Wednesday 8 July 2015
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This colloquium was part of a Nelder Lecture Series. Please see Prof Schoen's Nelder Fellow webpage for more information
- Prof Nalini Joshi (University of Sydney)
"When applied mathematics collided with algebra"
(2015 Hardy Fellow - Part of the LMS 150th Anniversary Hardy Tour)
Wednesday 17th June 2015
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- Prof Alan C. Newell (University of Arizona)
"Phyllotaxis - A review of progress but a story far from over"
Thursday 14 May 2015
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- Prof Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
"Almost Exchangeability"
Thursday 19 March 2015
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2014 (Gelman, Davis, Green, Caffarelli, Hairer)
- Prof Martin Hairer (Univerisity of Warwick)
"Taming Infinities"
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Further details, including abstract - Prof Luis A Caffarelli (University of Texas at Austin)
"Some segregation and equipartition models"
Monday, 9 June 2014
Further details, including abstract - Prof Ben Green (University of Oxford)
"Points and Lines"
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Further details, including abstract - Prof Steve Davis (Northwestern University)
"Dynamics of Foams"
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Further details, including abstract - Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)
"Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Further details, including abstract
2013 (Serfaty, Senn, Tenenbaum, Bertozzi)
- Prof Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)
"Mathematics of Crime"
Monday, 9 December 2013
See event page for further details, inlcuding the abstract - Prof Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Modeling human decision making with probabilistic programs"
Thursday, 2 May 2013
See event page for further details, including the abstract - Prof Stephen Senn (CCMS Luxembourg)
"Margin of error or critical condition?"
Thursday, 21 March 2013
See event page for further details, including the abstract - Professor Sylvia Serfaty (Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6)
"Questions of crystallisation in two-dimensional Coulomb systems"
Thursday, 31st January 2013
See event page for further details, including the abstract
2012 (Werner, Fokas, McCullagh)
- Professor Peter McCullagh FRS (University of Chicago)
"Some issues connected with likelihood and REML"
8 March 2012
Poster - Professor McCullagh 2012 - Professor Athanassios S. Fokas (University of Cambridge)
"Integrability, Medical Imaging, and Boundary Value Problems"
23 February 2012
Poster - Professor Fokas 2012 - Professor Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud 11)
"Random surfaces, random geometries"
26 January 2012
For more infomation please see the event webpage
Poster - Professor Werner 2012
2011 (Cox, Otto, Embrechts)
- Professor Paul Embrechts (ETH Zurich)
“The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Financial Mathematics?”
1 December 2011
Poster - Professor Embrechts 2011 - Professor Felix Otto (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany)
"Pattern Formation and Partial Differential Equations
15 June 2011
Poster - Professor Otto 2011 - Professor Sir David Cox (Nuffield College, Oxford)
"A number of examples will be given showing how probabilistic models are used to interpret empirical phenomena."
4 March 2011
Poster - Professor Cox 2011
2010 (Gowers, Lieb, Sinai)
- Professor Yakov Sinai (Princeton University)
"The Decay of Fourier modes in solutions of the Navier Navier-Stokes System"
18 June 2010
Poster - Professor Sinai 2010 - Professor Elliott Lieb (Princeton University)
"Mathematics of the Bose Gas: A truly quantum quantum-mechanical many many-body problem"
2 June 2010
Poster - Professor Lieb 2010 - Professor Timothy Gowers (University of Cambridge)
"Open Mathematics ... and a new proof of the density Hales-Jewett theorem
12 March 2010
Poster - Professor Gowers 2010