General Mathematics Colloquium

Lectures in 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?

Lectures in 2018-2019