General Mathematics Colloquium

Lectures in 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

Lectures in 2019-2020