General Mathematics Colloquium

GMC Lectures 2024-2025

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
25 Sept.	Maris Ozols	KdVI, CWI, QuSoft	From dynamic programming to quantum groups
9 Oct.	Pjotr Buys	UvA - KdVI	An Introduction to the Shannon Capacity of Graphs
23 Oct.	Maximillian Engel	UvA - KdVI	The rise of chaos from shear and randomness
6 Nov.	Linda Cook	UvA - KdVI	200,000 colors suffice (for t-perfect graphs)
20 Nov.	Thorsten Dickhaus	University of Bremen	Multiple testing of partial conjunction null hypotheses, with application to replicability analysis of high-dimensional studies
2 Dec.	Matthias Christandl	University of Copenhagen	Quantum Entropy
5 Feb.	Johan Commelin	Utrecht University and Lean FRO	math \over human \join computer
19 Feb.	Ronald de Wolf	QuSoft, CWI and UvA	Exponential Lower Bounds for Polytopes in Combinatorial Optimization
5 Mar.	Amir Shpilka	Tel-Aviv University	Points, lines and polynomial identities
19 Mar.	Lisa Kohl	CWI	Generating Pseudorandomness: Limitations and New Constructions
1 Apr.	Peter Grünwald	Leiden University and CWI	E is the New P
16 Apr.	Gabriele Benedetti	VU Amsterdam	From Hamiltonian Mechanics to Symplectic Geometry
14 May	Mario Bonk	University of California	Fractals and the dynamics of Thurston maps
21 May	Valerio Toledano Laredo	Northeastern University	Braid groups, differential equations and quantum groups
11 June	Dhyan Aranha	Korteweg-de Vries Institute UvA	The Monsky Project

GMC Lectures 2023-2024

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
6 Sept.	Guus Regts	UvA - KdVI	The location of the zeros of the chromatic polynomial
20 Sept.	Leo Zhou	UvA - KdVI	Probing the World with Waves - From the Subatomic to the Cosmos
4 Oct.	Vivi Rottschäfer	UvA, KdVI, Leiden University	Mathematics for the brain: Towards a 3D distribution model of drugs in the brain
1 Nov.	Fernando Nobrega Santos	UvA - KdVI	Hypergraph Representation of Brain Activity: Perspectives and Challenges
15 Nov.	Drona Kandhai	UvA - IvI, ING	Recent advances in Financial Risk Modeling
13 Dec.	Raf Bocklandt	UvA - KdVI	From the Freezer to the Tropics
7 Feb.	Jan van den Heuvel	UvA - KdVI, London School of Economics	Combinatorics of Reconfiguration: Algorithms and Structures
21 Feb.	Bas Kleijn	UvA - KdVI	Random histogram limits and quantum field theory
20 Mar.	Stacey Jeffery	UvA - KdVI, QuSoft, CWI	Transducers: A new formalism for quantum algorithms
17 April	Sven Karbach	UvA - KdVI, IvI	Mathematical Foundations of Renewable Energy Finance
29 May	Evgeny Verbitskiy	Leiden University, KdVI	Principal Algebraic Actions
5 June	Moustapha Fall	AIMS - Senegal	On some overdetermined boundary value problems and the Schiffer conjecture

GMC Lectures 2022-2023

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
7 Sept.	Jan Brandts	UvA - KdVI	A Nonnegative Start of the New Academic Year
5 Oct.	Ferenc Bencs	UvA - KdVI	Approximation of the free energy of the random cluster model
19 Oct.	Royi Yacobovich	UvA - KdVI	A (relatively) general answer for an old question: Is data-splitting a good idea for hypothesis testing?
2 Nov.	Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel	Utrecht University, ASML	Understanding dynamics through characteristic matrix functions
16 Nov.	Peter Spreij	UvA - KdVI	Nonparametric Bayesian estimation with piecewise constant priors for stochastic process observations
30 Nov.	Marjan Sjerps	UvA - KdVI, NFI	Forensic statistics: evaluating evidence in forensic casework
14 Dec.	Ross Kang	UvA - KdVI	Independent sets and colourings in locally sparse graphs
1 Feb.	Ludovico Lami	UvA - KdVI	On the generalised quantum Stein’s lemma
1 March	Max Woetzel	UvA - KdVI	A primer on the method of hypergraph containers
15 March	Sonja Cox	UvA - KdVI	On expected norms of vector-valued stochastic integrals
29 March	Carla Groenland	Utrecht University	Graph theory proof of why surfaces are (asymptotically) two-dimensional
10 May	Noah Olander	UvA - KdVI	27 lines on a cubic surface and finite fields

GMC Lectures 2021-2022

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
13 Oct.	Janusz Meylahn	UvA - KdVI	Algorithmic collusion with multi-agent learning
27 Oct.	Jeroen Zuiddam	UvA - KdVI	Asymptotic Spectra and Applications
10 Nov.	Edwin van Dam	Tilburg University	Unit gain graphs and lines in complex space with few angles
24 Nov.	Frank Pijpers	UvA - KdVI	Networks, contagion spreading & reproduction numbers
2 Feb.	Laura Sanita	TU/e	On the Simplex method for 0/1 polytopes
16 Feb.	Jop Briët	CWI	Structure-versus-randomness in combinatorics and complexity
16 March	Felix Wierstra	UvA - KdVI	Algebraic structures in topology
5 April	Avi Wigderson	IAS, Princeton	Randomness – the Utility of Unpredictability
13 April	Marta Pieropan	UU	Rational points on Fano varieties
29 April	Max Welling	UvA	How GNNs and Symmetries can help to solve PDEs
11 May	Han Peters	UvA - KdVI	The relevance of the Mandelbrot set in combinatorics, statistical physics, and computational complexity theory
25 May	Emma Brakkee	UvA - KdVI	Moduli spaces: "counting" in and outside algebraic geometry
7 June	Luca Avena	LEI	A randomized k-centrality measure & applications to networks node immunization

GMC Lectures 2020-2021

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
17 Sept.	Joris Mooij	UvA - KdVI	Different ways to learn causal relations from data
1 Oct.	Jo Elllis-Monaghan	UvA - KdVI	Combinatorial, topological, and computational approaches to DNA self-assembly
14 Oct.	Diletta Martinelli	UvA - KdVI	A gentle introduction to the Minimal Model Program
11 Nov.	Krystal Guo	UvA - KdVI	Quantum walks: linear algebra, graphs, and quantum computing
26 Nov.	Tim van Erven	UvA - KdVI	Online Convex Optimization: From Proving Minimax Theorems to Training Machine Learning Models by Playing Repeated Games
3 Feb.	Eni Musta	UvA - KdVI	Statistical methods for survival data: accounting for cured patients
17 Feb.	Anurag Bishnoi	TU Delft	Subspace coverings with multiplicities
17 March	Victoria Hoskins	Radboud University	The geometry and cohomology of moduli spaces of vector bundles
31 March	Mikhail Isachenkov	UvA - KdVI	A glimpse into the conformal bootstrap program
14 April	Alessandro Zocca	VU University	Power grids as stochastic networks: emergent failures and mitigation strategies
12 May	Aida Abiad Monge	TU/e	Neumaier graphs with few eigenvalues

GMC Lectures 2019-2020

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
4 Sept.	Steffen Müller	University of Groningen	Computing rational points on curves using p-adic analysis
18 Sept.	Jaron Sanders	TU Eindhoven	Clustering in Block Markov Chains
2 Oct.	Paulo de Andrade Serra	TU Eindhoven	Dimension Estimation using Random Connection Models
16 Oct.	Bruno Belhoste	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	Imagination and geometry: the case of Monge
30 Oct.	Guido Schäfer	CWI, VU	Computing Efficient Nash Equilibria in Congestion Games
27 Nov.	Johannes Schmidt-Hieber	University of Twente	Towards a statistical foundation of deep learning
5 Feb.	Charles Vial	Bielefeld University	Algebraic tori attached to algebraic varieties
4 March	David de Laat	Delft University of Technology	Sphere packing and semidefinite programming
10 March	Pierre Berger	Université Paris-Sorbonne	Emergence of wild dynamics
25 March	Cole Franks	MIT	Rigorous Guarantees for Tyler’s M-estimator via Quantum Expansion
20 May	Kathlén Kohn	Stockholm	Invariant theory and scaling algorithms for maximum likelihood estimation
17 June	Anna Seigal	Oxford	Structured Tensors and the Geometry of Data

GMC Lectures 2018-2019

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
19 Sept.	Guus Regts	KdVI, UvA	On a conjecture of Sokal concerning roots of the independence polynomial
17 Oct.	Matthias Schlottbom	University of Twente	A perfectly matched layer approach for radiative transfer in highly scattering regimes
31 Oct.	Daniel Dadush	CWI	On Approximating the Covering Radius and Finding Dense Lattice Subspaces
14 Nov.	Rikkert Hindriks	VU Amsterdam	Estimation of zero-lag cortical functional connectivity from EEG and MEG data
28 Nov.	Marko Boon	Eindhoven University of Technology	Mathematics of Traffic-Light Queues
12 Dec.	Lennart Meijer	Utrecht University	Decomposition results for rings of modular forms
30 Jan.	Judith Brinkschulte	Universität Leipzig	On Levi-flat CR manifolds from the point of view of positive normal bundles
6 Feb.	Ivan Kryven	HIMS, UvA	On the sizes of connected components in a random coloured graph
20 Feb.	Magnus Botnan	VU Amsterdam	From Clustering to Quiver Representations
6 Mar.	Neil Olver	VU Amsterdam and CWI	Rounding, matroids and matrices
20 Mar.	Stacey Jeffery	CWI and QuSoft	Quadratic speedup for finding marked vertices by quantum walks
3 Apr.	Beth Romano	University of Cambridge	Wild Ramification and the Local Langlands Correspondence
15 May	Dennis Dobler	VU Amsterdam	Survival of the fittest - but what does fitness mean?

GMC Lectures 2017-2018

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
27 Sept.	Liron Ravner	KdVI, UvA	Equilibrium arrival times to a congested queue
11 Oct.	Eric Bedford	Stony Brook University	Complex dynamics in higher dimension
25 Oct.	Peter Bruin	Leiden University	Rational points on elliptic curves
8 Nov.	Jop Briët	CWI	Codes, Szemerédi's theorem and upper tails
22 Nov.	Sander Dahmen	VU Amsterdam	Diophantine equations: the modular method and more
6 Dec.	Botond Szabó	Leiden University	An asymptotic analysis of nonparametric divide-and-conquer methods

7 Feb.	Erdal Emsiz	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Discrete Fourier transform and quadrature rule associated with Bernstein-Szegö polynomials
8 March	Martina Chirilus-Bruckner	Leiden University	Dynamics of fronts in a multi-component reaction-diffusion system: when Takens-Bogdanov meets a butterfly catastrophe
21 March	Michael Walter	KdVI, IILC, IoP, CWI	Invariant theory and quantum information
11April	Peter Buergisser	TU Berlin	No occurrence obstructions in geometric complexity theory
18 April	Chenyang Xu	Beijing International Center of Mathematical Research	Moduli spaces of higher dimensional varieties
2 May	Stella Kapodistria	Eindhoven University of Technology	Decision making under uncertainty
17 May	Leo van Iersel	Delft University of Technology	Reconstructing phylogenetic trees and networks
13 June	Tim Dokchitser	University of Bristol, KdVI	Models of curves

GMC Lectures 2016-2017

Date	Lecturer	Affilication	Title
31 May	Jason Frank	UU	A tangent space splitting method for data assimilation: shadowing and synchronization
26 April	Erika Hausenblas	Montanauniversitaet Leoben	The non-linear Schroedinger equation driven by a Levy process
5 April	Christian Schaffner	UvA- ILLC	Homomorphic Encryption of Quantum Data
22 March	Damaris Schindler	UU	Systems of quadratic forms
15 March	Ezra Getzler	Northwestern University, USA	Quasi-invertibility
8 March	Jan Felipe van Diejen	Universidad de Talca, Chile	Bispectrality in Quantum Integrable Particle Systems and Special Functions
22 Feb.	Barry Koren	TU/e	Computational Science for Energy
14 Dec.	Dion Gijswijt	TU Delft	A solution to the cap set problem
30 Nov.	Ross Kang	IMAPP	A stronger version of the Erdős-Nešetřil conjecture
16 Nov.	Svetlana Dubinkina	UU	Relevance of dynamical system properties in data assimilation
2 Nov.	Arnoud den Boer	UvA	Decision-based model selection
19 Oct.	Roland van der Veen	UL	Polynomial time knot theory
5 Oct.	K.P. Hart Jan v. Mill	TU Delft KdVI	The Katowice Problem A short proof of Torunczyk’s characterization theorems
21 Sept.	Joost Batenburg	CWI	Recent Trends in Tomography
7 Sept.	Gerard v.d. Geer	KdVI	Modular Forms for Genus Two

GMC Lectures 2015-2016

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
22 June	Tiziano Squartini	IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca	Networks reconstruction: applications from economics and finance
15 June	Steffen Sagave	RU	Algebra of structured ring spectra
1 June	Frank Redig	TU Delft	Ergodic theory of the symmetric inclusion process
18 May	André Ran	VU	Eigenvalue perturbation theory of classes of structuredmatrices under generic structured rank one perturbations
4 May	Peter Hochs	RU	Index theory and representations
20 April	Erik Koelink	RU	Matrix-valued orthogonal polynominals
6 April	Jan-Pieter Dorsman	KdVI	Analysis of optical fibre networks with a void-avoiding schedule
9 March	Suzanne Sniekers	VUMC	An overview of statistical methods in genetics
24 Feb.	Klaas Slooten	NFI	Forensic genetics
10 Feb.	Viresh Patel	UvA	Quasi-Ramsey problems
16 Dec.	Rob v.d. Vorst	VU	Symplectic diffeomorphisms in dimension 2 and discrete braid invariants
02 Dec.	Bert Zwart	CWI	Diffusion approximations of Bandwidth Sharing Networks
04 Nov.	Cor Kraaijkamp	TU Delft	Subtractive algorithms
21 Oct.	Iris Smit	UvA - KdVI	Understanding wandering domains in several complex variables
14 Oct.	Asma Khedher	UvA - KdVI	Robustness of quadratic hedging strategies
7 Oct.	Peter Stevenhagen	UL	Number fields and their invariants
9 sept.	Arno Kret	UvA - KdVI	Integral points on Hilbert-Blumenthal varieties

GMC Lectures 2014-2015

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
10 June	Arie Peterson	UvA - KdVI	The moduli space of K3 surfaces and its Kodaira dimension
3 June	Federico Camia	VU	Limit Theorems and Random Fractal Curves in Statistical Mechanics
20 May	Martijn Kool	UU	Enumerative geometry: from Ancient Greeks to Modern Physicists
13 May	Andrei Marshakov	Lebedev Institute of Physics, Moscow	Cluster varieties and integrable systems
22 April	Sonja Cox	UvA	Numerical simulations for stochastic PDEs
8 April	Marc Veraar	TU Delft	A new approach to maximal regularity for parabolic PDEs.
11 March	Han Peters	UvA	A polynomial map with wandering Fatou components.
25 Feb.	Maarten Solleveld	RU	Weyl groups, the Springer correspondence and their affine versions
11 Feb.	David Holmes	UL	Complexity of rational solutions to polynomial equations
03 Dec.	Bas Kleijn	UvA	Consistency and testability
19 Nov.	Ionut Marcut	UU	An invitation to Poisson geometry
17 Sep.	Oliver Fabert	VU	Hamiltonian dynamics and complex geometry
03 Sep.	Lenny Taelman	UvA	Arithmetic geometry through point counting sequences

GMC Lectures 2001-2014

2001-2002

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 12, 2001	Erik Koelink	Delft University of Technology	Special functions, the quantum dynamical Yang-Baxter equation and dynamical quantum groups
September 19, 2001 (canceled)	Dennis Gaitsgory	Harvard University	An overview of the geometric Langlands conjecture.
September 26, 2001	Eva Hoogland	University of Amsterdam	A general picture of definability
October 10, 2001	Erik Balder	Utrecht University	New results in and applications of topological measure theory
October 17, 2001	Herman te Riele	CWI	On the distribution of class numbers of real quadratic number fields
October 24, 2001	Marc Yor	Université Paris VI & Paris VII	On W. Doeblin's sealed envelope deposited in the Academie des Sciences (Feb. 1940) about Kolmogorov's equation
October 31, 2001	Peter Paule	Johannes Kepler UniversitÃ¤t Linz	Computer Algebra and Combinatorics: MacMahon's Partition Analysis Revisited
November 7, 2001	Rene Schoof	Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata"	Class numbers of cyclotomic fields
November 14, 2001	Arjan van der Schaft	Universiteit Twente	Hamiltonian formulation of network models of physical systems
November 21, 2001	Debby Lanser	CWI	Efficient numerical methods for atmospheric flow problems
November 28, 2001	Bernd Kuckert	University of Amsterdam	Thermodynamic equilibrium states of moving quantum systems
December 5, 2001	Roxana Ion	Eurandom	New Nonparametric Shewhart Control Charts and Sharp Chebyshev-Type Inequalities
January 9, 2002	Alexa van der Waall	Universiteit Utrecht	Lamé equations with finite monodromy
January 16, 2002	Stefan Steiner	University of Waterloo	Seven Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Problem Solvers The Principles of Statistical Engineering
January 23, 2002	Ronald Meester	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	There is a phase-transition in the Bak-Sneppen evolution model
January 30, 2002	Kees Jan van Garderen	University of Amsterdam & University of Bristol	Statistical Geometry in Econometrics and the Exact Geometry of Explosive Autoregressive Models
February 13, 2002	Rob van der Vorst	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Georgiatech	Braids and differential equations
February 20, 2002	Oscar Lemmers	Umea Universitet	A decomposition problem in complex analysis
February 27, 2002	Peter van Emde Boas	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Imperfect Information Games; looking for the right model
March 6, 2002	Elham Izadi	Univ. of Georgia, Athens GA	On the cohomology of hypersurfaces with automorphisms
March 13, 2002	Gerard Helminck	University of Twente	Integrable hierarchies and flag varieties
March 27, 2002	Jeroen de Mast	IBIS	Quality Improvement from the Viewpoint of Statistical Method
April 17, 2002	Paul Beneker	AOT	The Bergman space: strongly exposed points and the Bergman projection
April 24, 2002	Jan Willems	University of Leuven, RUG	The behavioral approach to systems and control
May 8, 2002	Klaas Landsman	University of Amsterdam	Quantization and the Baum-Connes conjecture
May 22, 2002	Peter Duren	Ann Arbor	Zeros of hypergeometric functions
May 29, 2002	Jan Karel Lenstra	TUE	Whizzkids: Two exercises in computational discrete optimization
June 19, 2002	Earl J. Taft	Rutgers University	Recursive Sequences and Combinatorial Identities

2002-2003

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 11, 2002	Peter Wakker	Universiteit van Amsterdam/Universiteit van Maastricht	How to Add up Uncountably Many Numbers? (Hint: Not by Integration)
September 25, 2002	Richard Cushman	Universiteit Utrecht	Geometric phases in the Euler top
October 2, 2002	David Iron	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Stability and dynamics of multi-spike solutions to a system of reaction-diffusion equations
October 9, 2002	Michael Müger	Universiteit van Amsterdam	From conformal to topological field theory: Equivariant results
October 16, 2002	Jan Willem Polderman	Universiteit Twente	A systems theoretic approach to list decoding of Reed Solomon codes
November 6, 2002	Wim Couwenberg	Reflexis/Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen	Diophantine equations after an idea of Lehman
November 13, 2002	Sander Zwegers	Universiteit Utrecht	Mock Theta Functions
November 20, 2002	Andries Lenstra	Eurandom/Universiteit van Amsterdam	On information bounds
December 4, 2002	Chris Stolk	École Polytechnique, Parijs	Inversion of seismic data in complex media
January 15, 2003	Bas Edixhoven	Universiteit Leiden	Counting solutions of systems of equations over finite fields
January 29, 2003	Andreas Weiermann	Universiteit Utrecht	Some Hardy Ramanujan style counting problems
February 5, 2003	Gerton Lunter	University of Oxford	Statistical alignment of biological sequences
February 12, 2003	Hans van Duijn	TU Eindhoven	Mathematical issues in density driven porous media flow
February 26, 2003	Mark Peletier	CWI/TU Eindhoven	Continuum modelling of lipid bilayers
March 12, 2003	Hessel Posthuma	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Quantization and Topological Quantum Field Theory
March 26, 2003	Ton Levelt	Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen	The other D.J. Korteweg: thermodynamics of binary mixtures
April 9, 2003	Remco Peters	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Some new insights into the volatility process
April 16, 2003	Peter Stevenhagen	Universiteit Leiden	Primes is in P
May 7, 2003	Rien Kaashoek	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	A lifting perspective to metric constrained interpolation
May 21, 2003	Floske Spieksma	Universiteit Leiden	Transient properties of random walk type processes
June 4, 2003	Michal Krížek	Academy of Sciences, Prague	From Fermat Numbers to Geometry

2003-2004

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 3, 2003	Hae-Won Uh	Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum	Kernel deconvolution
September 10, 2003	Klaas Slooten	Universiteit van Amsterdam	A combinatorial generalization of the Springer correspondence for classical type
October 1, 2003	Benedikt Löwe	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Large Cardinals and Foundations of Mathematics
October 15, 2003	Bart de Smit	Universiteit Leiden	Escher and elliptic curves
October 29, 2003	Jaap Kaandorp	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Modelling Developmental Regulatory Networks
November 12, 2003	Wessel van Wieringen	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Statistical models for the precision of categorical measurement systems
November 26, 2003	Johan van de Leur	Universiteit Utrecht	KP and a discrete family of rational solutions of Painlevé VI
December 10, 2003	Gunther Cornelissen	Universiteit Utrecht	Chess- and switchboards in arithmetic geometry
January 14, 2004	Jan Wiegerinck	Universiteit van Amsterdam	A question about exp and what came out of it
January 28, 2004	Leen Stougie	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven	A Linear Bound on the Diameter of the Transportation Polytope
February 11, 2004	Daniel Alpay	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Reproducing kernel spaces and the theory of linear systems
February 25, 2004	Paul Vitanyi	CWI & UvA	Statistics without probabilities (a la Kolmogorov)
March 10, 2004	Marius Crainic	Universiteit Utrecht	On rigidity results
March 17, 2004	John Kuiper	Universiteit Utrecht	Brouwer's road to intuitionism
March 24, 2004	Ute Ebert	CWI en TU Eindhoven	Branching sparks! -- sparking math?
April 7, 2004	Gerard Alberts	CWI and UvA	Aad van Wijngaarden and the ALGOL conspiracy - the battle on research agendas in computer science
May 12, 2004	Klaas Landsman	Universiteit van Amsterdam	The Atiyah-Singer index theorem
May 19, 2004	Misja Nuyens	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Queues, heavy tails and the Foreground-Background discipline
May 26, 2004	Odo Diekmann	Universiteit Utrecht	Population Dynamics, an impressionistic sketch

2004-2005

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 8	Philip Holmes	Princeton University	Optimal decisions: From neural spikes, through stochastic differential equations, to behavior
September 15	Daniel Grunberg	Max Planck Institut	The quintic's quintessence: from 0 to 2875 in 60 minutes
September 22	Jan van Mill	Vrije Universiteit	Erdös spaces
October 6	Gerard van der Geer	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Congruences between Modular Forms of Genus One and Genus Two
October 20	Bernard Nienhuis	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Connections between problems in combinatorics, statistical mechanics and algebraic geometry
November 3	Elena Mantovan	Berkeley	The role of the geometry of Shimura varieties in the Langlands program
November 17	Torsten Ekedahl	Stockholm University	Polynomials with simple ramification and some p-adic volumes
December 1	Robin de Jong	UvA	A potential problem on compact Riemann surfaces
January 12	Michel Mandjes	CWI and UvA	Large deviations for Gaussian queues (different time: 16.00-17.00, different room: B.240)
January 26	Nguyen Huu Khanh	UvA	Global bifurcation to strange attractors in a thermal convection model
February 9	Jasper Stokman	UvA	Hecke algebras and integrable systems
February 23	Jan van Neerven	TU Delft	Stochastic integration in UMD-spaces
March 9	Robbert Dijkgraaf	UvA	String Theory and Melting Crystals
March 23	Harry Buhrman	CWI and UvA	Quantum Information Processing
April 6	Marco Martens	RUG	Is the www alive?
April 20	Jan Aarts	TU Delft	Is there a bronze number?
May 11	Nicolas Guay	UvA	Variations on a theme of Schur and Weyl
May 25	Charles Dunkl	University of Virginia	Nonsymmetric Jack Polynomials and Calogero-Moser Models
June 1	Gail Letzter	Virginia Tech	q special functions and quantum symmetric spaces
July 6	Paulus Gerdes	Maputo	From the geometry of African sanddrawings to new symmetries and matrices

2005-2006

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 7	Dion Gijswijt	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Semidefinite programming and coding bounds
September 21	Margit Rösler	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Bessel convolutions on matrix cones
September 28	Lev Aizenberg	Bar-Ilan University	Classical results of Bohr and Rogosinski on power series and their multivariate analogs
October 5	Wolter Groenevelt	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Non-symmetric Wilson polynomials
October 12	Bernhard Krötz	Max Planck Institut, Bonn	The complex crown of a Riemannian symmetric space
October 19	Bas Kleijn	Vrije Universiteit	Complementarity and quantum measures
November 2	Torsten Wedhorn	Universität Bonn	Classification of varieties and the wonderful compactification
November 16	Jan Bouwe van den Berg	Vrije Universiteit	Braided solutions of differential equations
November 30	Jaap Top	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	Real Cubic Surfaces
December 7	Frank van der Meulen	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Estimation for Lévy processes and induced OU-processes
February 8	Sem Borst	CWI/TUE/Bell Labs	Flow-level performance in wireless data networks
February 15	Christoph Schweigert	Universität Hamburg	Frobenius algebras, topological and conformal field theory
February 22	Irene Bouw	Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf	Teichmüller curves and triangle groups
March 1	Emanuel Diaconescu	Rutgers University	Gromov-Witten Theory, Localization, and Large N Duality
March 8	Ton Dieker	CWI	Extremes and fluid queues
March 22	Mats Gyllenberg	University of Helsinki	Dual semigroups and Volterra functional equations
April 5	Hans Schumacher	Universiteit van Tilburg	Complementarity modeling of nonsmooth dynamical systems
April 26	Patrick Dehornoy	Université de Caen	From sets to braids
May 17	Johan Grasman	Wageningen Universiteit	Exploring persistence in stochastic models of biological populations and its application in chemostats
May 24	Lex Schrijver	CWI/UvA	Tensors, Invariants, and Combinatorics

2006-2007

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 6	Alain Lascoux	UniversitÃ© de Marne-la-VallÃ©e	Algebraic computations in several variables
September 20	Andrew Baker	University of Glasgow	Galois theory in a topological context
October 4	Erdal Emsiz	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Affine Weyl groups and integrable systems with delta-potentials
October 18	Alexis Kouvidakis	University of Crete	Symmetric products of curves and connections with the Nagata problem
November 1	Onno van Gaans	Universiteit Leiden	Invariant measures for infinite dimensional stochastic differential equations
November 22	Thijs Vermaat	UvA/IBIS	Statistical Process Control in Non-Standard Situations
November 29	Joost Batenburg	Universiteit Antwerpen	Discrete tomography: exploiting the fact that nature is discrete
December 13	BjÃ¶rn Sandstede	University of Surrey	Dynamics of spiral waves
February 7	Jaap Korevaar	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Prime pairs and the zeta function
February 21	Arnoud van Rooij	Radboud Universiteit	p-adic analysis
February 28	Maarten Solleveld	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Periodic cyclic homology and non-Hausdorff spaces
March 14	Thomas Quella	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Supersymmetry, supergeometry and physics
March 28	Antonios Zagaris	CWI / Universiteit van Amsterdam	Attracting invariant manifolds for systems with multiscale dynamics
April 25	Pieter Collins	CWI	Computable Analysis and Verification of Nonlinear Systems
May 2	Rob van der Waall	UvA	1939-2004 : the development of classifying finite groups by means of n-isoclism of groups
May 30	Nitin Saxena	CWI	Isomorphism Problems and Cubic Forms Equivalence
June 6	Yde Venema	UvA/ILLC	Completions of lattice ordered algebras

2007-2008

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 5	Harrie Willems		Wolfgang Doeblin, A Mathematician Rediscovered
September 19	Jonas Bergström	UvA	Counting points over finite fields and cohomology
October 3	Frank den Hollander	Universiteit Leiden	Random walk in random scenery
October 17	André Henriques	Universiteit Utrecht	The string group
October 31	Ronald Cramer	CWI	Computing in the dark using algebraic geometry
November 14	Fokko van de Bult	UvA	Hyperbolic Hypergeometric Functions
November 28	Simon Ruijsenaars	University of Leeds	Integrable systems, analytic difference equations, special functions, Hilbert space: On the crossroads
December 12	Rob Stevenson	UvA	Adaptive wavelet methods for solving high dimensional PDE's
February 6	Nicolai Reshetikhin	UC Berkeley / UvA	On the Kasteleyn's solution of dimer models
February 20	Jochen Heinloth	UvA	An introduction to some aspects of the (geometric) Langlands program
March 5	Hicham Zmarrou	Deloitte	Dynamics and bifurcations of random circle diffeomorphisms
March 19	Monique Laurent	CWI	Real Solving Polynomial Equations with Semidefinite Programming
April 2	Rens Bod	UvA (ILLC)	Mathematical Universals in Music CANCELLED
April 16	Frits Beukers	Universiteit Utrecht	Algebraic hypergeometric functions
May 14	Dietrich Notbohm	Vrije Universiteit	Combinatorics of simplicial complexes and Stanley-Reisner algebras from a topological point of view CANCELLED
May 28	Kareljan Schoutens	UvA (ITFA)	Quantum hard squares, supersymmetry, and combinatorics

2008-2009

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 3	Sergey Shadrin	UvA	Operads, PROPs, and graph complexes
September 17	Tilman Bauer	Vrije Universiteit	Finite loop spaces
October 1	Walter van Suijlekom	Radboud Universiteit	The structure of perturbative quantum gauge theories
October 15	Hessel Posthuma	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Index theory from the point of view of quantum mechanics
October 29	Bert Zwart	CWI	Fluid and diffusion approximations of bandwidth sharing networks
November 12	Bas Spitters	Radboud Universiteit	A computer-verified implementation of Riemann integration - an introduction to computer mathematics
November 26	Jonas Hartwig	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Generalized Weyl algebras
December 10	Robin de Vilder	Universiteit van Amsterdam	The causes and effects of the credit crisis (download sheets)
January 21	Lawrence Zalcman	Bar Ilan University	Picard Theorems 1879-2009
February 4	Said El Marzguioui	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Fine aspects of pluripotential theory
February 18	Sabir Gusein-Zade	Independent University of Moscow	Poincare series of multi-index filtrations and their generalizations.
March 4	Kostas Skenderis		Holography and Mathematics
March 18	Harry van Zanten	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Prior and Posterior Stochastic Differential Equations
April 1	T.A. Springer	Universiteit Utrecht	On the work of Jacques Tits
April 15	Sebastian van Strien	University of Warwick	Games, Fictitious play and Chaos 4pm room P.017 !
April 29	Manfred Lehn	Universität Mainz	Holomorphic symplectic varieties.
May 13	Rob van der Waall	KdV	On the life and work of John Griggs Thompson Location: room A1.04, Science Park
May 27	Sander Bais	UvA (Institute for Theoretical Physics)	The physics of quantum groups and their breaking Location: room A1.04, Science Park

2009-2010

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 2	Han Peters	UvA	Non-negative polynomials constant on a hyperplane
September 16	Stefan Kolb	UvA	Weyl group combinatorics and quantum groups
September 30	Remco van der Hofstad	TU Eindhoven	Critical behavior in inhomogeneous random graphs
October 14	Eduard Looijenga	Universiteit Utrecht	Some highlights of the work of Mikhail Gromov, Abel laureate of 2009
October 28	Henk Nijmeijer	TU Eindhoven	The electronic brain: does it synchronize?
November 11	Kees Oosterlee	TU Delft / CWI	The Heston model with stochastic interest rates and pricing options with Fourier-cosine expansions
November 25	Rob de Jeu	Vrije Universiteit	What is known about K₂ of curves?
December 3	Christoph Schwab	ETH Zürich	Finite Element Methods for PDEs with Stochastic Coefficients (Odd room, day and time: A1.06, Thursday, 15:00 - 16:00)
December 9	Gunnar Klau	CWI	Combinatorial optimization and algorithmics for disease classification
February 3	Rob van der Vorst	Vrije Universiteit	Closed characteristics on non-compact manifolds
February 17	Frank Redig	Radboud Universiteit	Duality and bosonic particle systems
March 3	Urs Schreiber	Universiteit Utrecht	Differential geometry in an ∞-topos
March 17	Eric Cator	TU Delft	The Hammersley interacting particle process
March 31	Vivi Rottschäfer	Universiteit Leiden	Formation of singularities in natural systems
April 14	Tamás Hausel	Oxford University	Arithmetic harmonic analysis on character varieties
April 28	Jason Frank	CWI / UvA	A thermostat model for unresolved dynamics
May 19	Marjan Sjerps	NFI / UvA	Forensic Statistics: recent developments and brand new plans
May 26	Alessandra Palmigiano	UvA, ILLC	Dualities for noncommutative spaces
June 17	Matthias Kreck	HIM, Bonn	Codes, Arthmetic and Manifolds (Odd time and day: Thursday 14:30-15:30!)

2010-2011

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 1	Roland van der Veen	UvA	Knot invariants: from the Jones polynomial to hyperbolic geometry (Odd room and time: C1.112, 11:00 - 12:00 !)
September 8	Peter Grünwald	CWI / UL	Statistics without Stochastics
September 22	Gert Vegter	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	Geometric Approximation
October 6			no colloquium this week
October 20	Eric Verlinde	UvA (ITFA)	Emergence of Gravity
November 3	Jan Draisma	TU/e	Finiteness results in statistics using algebra
November 17	Jan Pieter van der Schaar	UvA (KdVI)	Cosmological inflation - Theory and Observations
December 1	Jan Brandts	UvA (KdVI)	Numerical Analysis meets Geometry: Acute and Nonobtuse Simplicial Partitions.
February 23	Tanja Eisner	UvA (KdVI)	Arithmetic progressions via ergodic theory.
March 2	Christoph Thiele	UCLA / U Bonn	Carleson's theorem, variations and applications.
March 9	Sindo Nunez Queija	UvA / CWI	Resource allocation in resource-sharing networks
March 23	Alexander Schönhuth	CWI	Complete identification of binary-valued hidden Markov processes
April 6	Neil Walton	UvA (KdVI)	Insensitive, maximum stable allocations converge to proportional fairness
April 20	Mai Gehrke	Radboud Universiteit	Profinite algebras as dual spaces
April 27	Joop Kolk	Universiteit Utrecht	Hans Duistermaat: the Man and his Mathematics
May 4	Lenny Taelman	UL	Believing in the Kummer-Vandiver conjecture
May 11	Thomas Ward	University of East Anglia	Group automorphisms from a dynamical point of view

2011-2012

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 7	Wil Schilders	TU Eindhoven	Model Order Reduction: mathematical methods and applications
September 21	Igor Stojkovic	TU Delft	Gradient Flows, Product formulas, and Maximal Monotone Operators in Metric Spaces
October 5	Karen Aardal	TU Delft and CWI	Uncapacitated facility location: a problem we "almost" understand
October 12	Lars Diening	UniversitÃ¤t MÃ¼nchen	A decomposition technique for John domains
October 19	Fokko van de Bult	UvA	A Mendeleev table for classical orthogonal polynomials: Obtaining the q-Askey scheme using elliptic hypergeometric functions
November 2	Karma Dajani	Universiteit Utrecht	Two special invariant ergodic measures for random beta transformations (Room D1.110)
November 16	Tanja Lange	TU/e	Advances in Elliptic-Curve Cryptography (Room D1.110)
November 30	Wieb Bosma	Radboud Universiteit	Some intriguing aspects of continued fractions (RoomG5.29)
December 14	Martijn Pistorius	UvA / Imperial College	Optimal dividend distribution in the presence of a penalty (RoomG5.29)
February 1	Bart Vlaar	UvA	Non-symmetric particle creation operators for the quantum nonlinear Schrodinger model (RoomC1.112 )
February 15	Krzysztof R. Apt	CWI	Choosing Products in Social Networks (Room C1.112)
February 29	Gil Cavalcanti	UU	Generalized geometry and T-duality ( Room C1.112)
March 14	Bert Zwart	CWI, VU.	An encounter with Erlang, Gauss, Poisson and Ramanujan ( Room C1.112)
March 28	Evgeny Verbitskiy	UL	Dimers, sandpiles and algebraic dynamics (Room C1.112)
April 11	Jose Blanchet	Columbia University.	Modeling and Efficient Rare Event Simulation of Systemic Risk in Insurance-Reinsurance Networks (Room C1.112)
April 18	Estate Khmaladze	Victoria, University of Wellington.	One approach to differentiation of set-valued functions and its applicatons to spatial statistical problems (Room C1.112)
April 25	Hans Maassen	RU	Quantum information, probability, and statistics. (Room C1.112)
May 9	Harrie Willems		Late Style - Yuri Manin Looking Back on a Life in Mathematics: A film by Agnes Handwerk and Harrie Willems (Room C1.112)
May 23	Hans Zwart	University of Twente	Linear port Hamiltonian Systems (Room C1.112)

2012-2013

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title	More
September 5	Sameer Murthy	NIKHEF	Mock theta functions and their appearance in physics (Room C1.112)
September 19	Ragnar Sigurdsson	University of Iceland	Growth estimates of entire functions and Paley-Wiener theorems (Room C1.112)
October 3rd	Koen De Turck	University of Gent	Poisson's equation for Markov chains and its use in perturbations (Room C1.112)
October 17th	Mehdi Tavakol	University of Amsterdam	Intersection theory on moduli spaces of curves. (Room C1.112)
October 31st	WONDER-Afternoon at CWI	University of Amsterdam and CWI	Wonder-afternoon. (CWI, room Z009 )
November 14th	David F. Anderson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Stochastic models of biochemical systems. (Room C1.112)
November 28th	Bob Rink	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Coupled cell networks: semigroups, Lie algebras and normal forms (Room C1.112)
February 6th	Jop BriÃƒÂ«t	CWI Amsterdam	Grothendieck's inequality for quantum entanglement and combinatorial optimization (Room C1.112)
February 20th	Daan Crommelin	CWI Amsterdam	Stochastic representation of unresolved scales in atmosphere models (Room C1.112)
March 6th	Arthemy Kiselev	University of Groningen	On the geometry of the Batalin-Vilkovisky Laplacian (Room C1.112)
March 20th	Roland van der Veen	University of Amsterdam	Knots, representations and some physics (Room C1.112)
April 3th	Monique Laurent	CWI	Positive semidefinite matrix completion and geometric graph realizations (Room C1.112)
April 17th	Raf Bocklandt	University of Amsterdam	A noncommutative glance through the mirror (Room C1.112)
May 15th			(Room C1.112)
May 29th	Tobias Mueller	Utrecht University	Logic and random graphs (Room C1.112)

2013-2014

Date	Lecturer	Affiliation	Title
September 19	Hitoshi Murakami	Tokyo Institute of Technology	A survey of the volume conjecture and its generalization. (Room C1.112)
October 3	Harry van Zanten	UvA	The mathematics of nonparametric Bayesian statistics (Room A1.04)
October 24	Benno van den Berg (ILLC)	UvA	Nonstandard analysis and proof theory (Room C0.110)
November 21	Sander Dahmen	Utrecht	Diophantine problems and the modular method (Room C1.112)
December 5	Angela Ortega	Humboldt UniversitÃ¤t	Prym-Tyurin varieties (Room G2.13)
Feburary 5	Miranda Cheng	UvA	Mock Modular Forms, Niemeier Lattices, and Umbral Moonshine (Room B0.201 )
Feburary 19	Guus Regts	Uva	Partition functions of edge- and vertex-coloring models: characterizations and connections to invariant theory and Hilbert spaces ( B0.201 )
March 5	Fabian Ziltener	Utrecht	Coisotropic Submanifolds of Symplectic Manifolds, Leafwise Fixed Points, and a Discontinuous Capacity ( B0.201 )
March 19	Rob van der Mei	CWI,VU	Towards a unifying theory on polling models: new results and challenges ( B0.201 )
April 2	Teun Koetsier and Jan van Mill	VU, VU&UvA	Irmgard Gawehn and the topological classification of manifolds. An attempt at rehabilitation. ( SP C1.112)
April 23	Lex Schrijver	CWI, UvA	GRAPHS, KNOTS, AND ALGEBRAS ( G0.05 )
May 28	Mingmin Shen	UvA	Differential equations from an algebraic point of view (Room C1.112 )

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
10 Sept.	Svetlana Dubinkina	VU Amsterdam	Ensemble data assimilation
24 Sept.	Charlene Weiß	UvA	Codes, Designs, and the Power of Linear Programming
8 Oct.	Erwin Luesink	KdVI-UvA	A guided tour of geometric mechanics using the harmonic oscillator
22 Oct.	Andrew Clarke	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	Glancing Billiards
5 Nov.	Jan-Willem van Ittersum	KdVI-UvA	Interger partitions detect the primes
19 Nov.	Patrick Forre'	KdVI-UvA	On how to incorporate space(time) symmetries into your neural networks
3 Dec.	Valentijn Karemaker	KdVI-UvA	Moduli spaces - classifying, constructing and counting varieties
11 Feb.	Lucas Slot	KdVI-UvA	Well-behaved solutions in (convex) (non)linear optimization
25 Feb.	Gergely Bodó	KdVI-UvA	"Cylindrical Lévy noise: a unified framework for modeling jump-type phenomena in infinite dimensions"
11 Mar.	Jeroen Zuiddam	KdVI-UvA	"AI for (or Against) the Working Mathematician"
1 Apr.	Freek Witteveen	CWI	"Approximate algebras and quantum cellular automata"

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