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FS 10 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Title | Speaker | |||||||||||||||||
| 02.03.10 | What is... Ergodic Theory? | Fabrizio Polo ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 09.03.10 | What is... a Homomorphism Duality? | Jan Foniok ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 23.03.10 | What is... the Shafarevic Theorem? | Rafael von Kaenel ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 20.04.10 | What are... Concepts of High-order Finite Element Methods? | Kersten Schmidt INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt (Rocquencourt) | |||||||||||||||||
| 04.05.10 | Jan Swoboda MPI Bonn (Bonn) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 18.05.10 | What is... a Paraproduct? | Laura Keller ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 25.05.10 | What is... Homogeneous Dynamics? | Alex Ustian ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 01.06.10 | What is... Milnor's Conjecture? | Utsav Choudhury Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
HS 09 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Title | Speaker | |||||||||||||||||
| 29.09.09 | What is... F_1? | Peter Arndt Universität Göttingen (Göttingen) | |||||||||||||||||
| 06.10.09 | What is... the Stein-Chen method? | Anne Feidt Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 13.10.09 | What is... new about Euler's method? | Julia Schweitzer ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 20.10.09 | What is... an infinity-category? | Alexandr Usnich Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 10.11.09 | What is... the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model? | Philipp Thomann Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 24.11.09 | What is... the support problem? | Anna Devic ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 01.12.09 | What is... an irreducible SO(3)-structure? | Julia Gwendolyn Becker-Bender Universität Marburg (Marburg) | |||||||||||||||||
| 08.12.09 | What is... a convolutional code? | Virtudes Tomás Estevan University of Alicante (Spain) | |||||||||||||||||
FS 09 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Title | Speaker | |||||||||||||||||
| 17.02.09 | What is... sheaf cohomology? | Markus Bader Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 24.02.09 | What is... the Fefferman-Graham ambient metric? | Matthias Hammerl Uni Wien (Wien) | |||||||||||||||||
| 03.03.09 | What is... a micro structure? | Mircea Petrache ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 10.03.09 | What is... Morse homology? | Tatjana Simcevic ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 07.04.09 | What is... surgery? | Irmgard Bühler Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 05.05.09 | What is... algebraic statistics? | Johannes Rauh MPI (Leipzig) | |||||||||||||||||
| 12.05.09 | What is... an incidence geometry? | Thomas Huber ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 19.05.09 | What is... homological commutative algebra? | Simon Schieder ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
HS 08 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Title | Speaker | |||||||||||||||||
| 23.09.08 | What is... the Conley Index? | Driton Komani ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 30.09.08 | What is... utility indifference valuation? | Christoph Frei ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 14.10.08 | What is... the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture? | Fritz Hörmann HU Berlin (Berlin) | |||||||||||||||||
| 21.10.08 | What is... a tree code? | Abigail Mitchell Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 04.11.08 | What is... a symmetric space? | Tobias Strubel ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 18.11.08 | What is... Digital Image Inpainting? | Thomas März TUM (München) | |||||||||||||||||
| 02.12.08 | What is... modelling with discrete PDE's? | Peter Kauf ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 16.12.08 | What is... stochastic modeling of infectious diseases? | Dominik Heinzmann Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
FS 08 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Title | Speaker | |||||||||||||||||
| 19.02.08 | What is... a rotation number? | Theo Bühler ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 26.02.08 | What is... extreme value theory? | Parthanil Roy ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 04.03.08 | What are... some graphs of chemical reaction networks? | Mirela Domijan University of Warwick (Coventry) | |||||||||||||||||
| 18.03.08 | What is... percolation? | Augusto Teixeira ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 08.04.08 | What is... a Log canonical threshold? | Jonathan Skowera Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 22.04.08 | What is... a Morrey space? | Melanie Rupflin ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 06.05.08 | What is a... moment(um) map? | Luca Stefanini Penn State University () | |||||||||||||||||
| 20.05.08 | What is... a reachable set? | Jens Jordan Universität Würzburg (Würzburg) | |||||||||||||||||
| 27.05.08 | What is... braid-based cryptography? | Jens Zumbrägel Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
HS 07 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Title | Speaker | |||||||||||||||||
| 25.09.07 | What is ... the abc-conjecture? | Patrik Hubschmid ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 09.10.07 | What is ... a varifold? | Ruben Jakob ETH (Zuerich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 16.10.07 | What is... a Lie algebroid? | Florian Schätz () | |||||||||||||||||
| 30.10.07 | What is... penalization? | Joseph Najnudel Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 13.11.07 | What is... a modular form? | Tobias Hahn ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 27.11.07 | What is ... a current? | Emanuele Spadaro Hausdorff Zentrum, Universität Bonn (Bonn) | |||||||||||||||||
| 11.12.07 | What is.. a Dessin d'Enfants? | Anna Posingies ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 18.12.07 | What is... Quaternion Kähler Geometry? | Manuel Amann Universität Münster (Westfalen) | |||||||||||||||||
SS 07 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Title | Speaker | |||||||||||||||||
| 20.03.07 | What is ... Enumerative Algebraic Geometry? | Fabio Perroni Universität Bayreuth (Deutschland) | |||||||||||||||||
| 03.04.07 | What is ... Generalized Complex Geometry? | Marco Zambon Universidade do Porto (Oporto, Portugal) | |||||||||||||||||
| 10.04.07 | What is ... a MaxPlus algebra? | Johannes Lieberherr ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 24.04.07 | What is ... a quantum algorithm? | Oliver Buerschaper (MPQ Garching) | |||||||||||||||||
| 22.05.07 | What is ... a stack? | Alberto López Martín Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 05.06.07 | What is ... a cover time? | David Windisch ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 12.06.07 | What is ... the Chomsky-hierarchy? | Thomas Preu Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 19.06.07 | Patrik Hubschmid ETHZ (Zürich) | ||||||||||||||||||
WS 06/07 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Title | Speaker | |||||||||||||||||
| 24.10.06 | What is... a Contact Structure? | Sebastian Baader ETH (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 07.11.06 | What are... Finite Elements? | Daniel Peterseim Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin) | |||||||||||||||||
| 21.11.06 | What are... random interfaces? | Noemi Kurt Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 05.12.06 | What are ... Error-Correcting Codes? | Felice Manganiello Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 12.12.06 | What is ... Manin's Conjecture? | Ulrich Derenthal Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 19.12.06 | What is ... a field theory? | Oliver Fabert ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 16.01.07 | What is ... a Toda lattice? | Jan Swoboda MPI Bonn (Bonn) | |||||||||||||||||
| 30.01.07 | What is... the geometry of PDE? | Dominique Aberlin ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
SS 06 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Title | Speaker | |||||||||||||||||
| 04.04.06 | What is... a Matrix Model? | Peter Elbau ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 11.04.06 | What is... Deformation Quanitzation? rescheduled Zeit:18.30-19.30 | Markus Engeli ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 18.04.06 | What is... the topological degree? | Sorin Mardare Université de Rouen (Rouen) | |||||||||||||||||
| 25.04.06 | What is... Ricci Flow? | Reto Mueller ETH (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 02.05.06 | What is... a Scheme? | Felix Fontein Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 09.05.06 | What is... an elliptic equation? | Luca Martinazzi ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 16.05.06 | What is... the Conley-Zehnder index? | Remi Janner ETH (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 23.05.06 | What is... an Aspherical Arrangement? | Emanuele Delucchi ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 30.05.06 | What is... the Arnold conjecture? | Jacopo Mandozzi ETH (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 06.06.06 | What is... a Quiver Variety? | Markus Bader Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 13.06.06 | Daniel Peterseim Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 20.06.06 | What is... Bootstrap in statistics? | Dominik Heinzmann Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 29.06.06 Donnerstag | What is... the Banach-Tarski Paradox? rescheduled Zeit:19.00-20.00 | Francesco Caravenna Università degli Studi di Padova (Padova) | |||||||||||||||||
| 04.07.06 | What is... the characteristic connection of a special geometry? | Nils Schoemann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin) | |||||||||||||||||
WS 05/06 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Title | Speaker | |||||||||||||||||
| 01.11.05 | What is... an Algebraic Group? | Alessandra Iozzi ETH (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 08.11.05 | What are... Boson Stars? | Enno Lenzmann ETH (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 15.11.05 | What is... Ellipitc Curve Cryptography? | Elisa Gorla Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 22.11.05 | What is... a Gerbe? | C. Rossi Technical University of Lisbon (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 29.11.05 | What are... (Twin) Buildings? | Tobias Hartnick TU (Darmstadt) | |||||||||||||||||
| 06.12.05 | What is... an Option? | Johannes Wissel ETHZ (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 13.12.05 | What is... a Dimer? | Béatrice de Tilière Universität Zürich (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 20.12.05 | What is... KAM Theory? | Andreas Henrici Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (New York) | |||||||||||||||||
| 10.01.06 | What is... Stein's Method? | Adrian Röllin National University of Singapore (Singapore) | |||||||||||||||||
| 17.01.06 | What are... the Einstein Equations? | Lydia Bieri ETH (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 24.01.06 | What is... a Random Walk in Random Environment? | Laurent Goergen ETH (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
| 31.01.06 | What are... quantum principal fibre bundles? | Thomas Aubriot (Strasbourg) | |||||||||||||||||
| 07.02.06 | What are... Intersection numbers? | Andreas Ott ETH (Zürich) | |||||||||||||||||
Summer term 2005
| April 12 | Prof. Ernst Specker | The wager of Polya and Weyl (abstract) |
| April 19 | Srdjan Micic | K-Theory: Karoubi Conjecture (abstract) |
| May 3 | Fred Rohrer (UniZh) | Asymptotic behaviour of local cohomology (abstract) |
| May 17 | Semyon Malamud | pricing in heterogeneous economies (abstract) |
| May 24 | Sebastian Baader (Basel) | Knot invariants from the fundamental group (abstract) |
| June 7 | Anna Schneebeli (Basel) | Discontinuous Approximation of Electromagnetic Fields (abstract) |
| June 14 | Gilles Angelsberg | Regularity of weakly biharmonic maps (abstract) |
| June 28 | Prof. Shmuel Weinberger (University of Chicago) | A logical approach to variational problems (abstract) |
Winter term 2004/05
| January 25 | Prof. Ernst Specker | The wager of Polya and Weyl (abstract) (Prof. Specker's talk is postponed to April 12th) |
| January 11 | Michael Kupper | Dynamic Monetary Risk Measure (abstract) |
| January 11 | Marc Oliver Rieger | How can a computer see? How does a body break? And why are these two questions connected? (abstract) |
| Nov. 30 | Bai-Ling Wang | Bundle gerbe viewpoint of Physicists' A-, B-, C-fields (abstract) |
| Nov. 23 | Stefan Fumasoli | Connectedness of Hilbert scheme strata defined by bounding cohomology (abstract) |
| Nov. 9 | Yves Stalder (Neuchâtel) | The space of marked groups, links with geometry and Baumslag-Solitar groups |
| Oct. 26 | Chenchang Zhu | Why stacks are useful in Lie theory (abstract) |
Summer term 2004
| June 23 | Beno Eckmann | Some Old-time Mathematics - 40 years ago and beyond (abstract) |
| June 16 | Andreas Schlatter (UBS) | From ETH to UBS (abstract) |
| June 9 | Göran Kirchner (Humboldt) | Multiplicities for SL(1,D) (abstract) |
| June 2 | Chantal Buteau | A Model of Motivic Analysis of Music (abstract) |
| May 26 | Anna Wienhard (Bonn) | The Teichmüller space and its generalizations (abstract) |
| May 19 | NO GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM | |
| May 12 | Janko Latchev (Humboldt) | Closed 1-forms and the dynamics of flows (abstract) |
| May 5 | Alexander Caspar | Realisations of Motives: Examples (abstract) |
| April 28 | Alexandru Oancea | A Differential Topology Approach to Leray-Serre Spectral Sequence (abstract) |
| April 21 | Michelle Bucher | An Introduction to Secondary Characteristic Classes (abstract) |
| April 14 | Uli Wagner | Halving Facets - An Invitation to Discrete Geometry (abstract) |
| April 7 | Tom Schmitz | Random Walks in Random Media (abstract) |
| March 31 | Dimitri Zvonkine | From ramified coverings of the sphere to 2-dimensional gravity. (abstract) |
Winter term 2003/04
| February 4 | Norbert Schappacher (Darmstadt) | A Portrait of the Mathematician as an Intellectual (abstract) |
| January 28 | Theo Bühler | Amenability (abstract) |
| January 21 | Stefan Hainz (Bonn) | Introduction to Contact Geometry (abstract) |
| January 14 | Ana-Maria Matache | Beyond Black-Scholes: Fast Deterministic Pricing of Options (abstract) |
| January 7 | Stefan Wenger | Plateau's Problem and the Theory of Currents in Metric and Banach Spaces (abstract) |
| December 17 | Benoit Dherin | Basic Deformation Quantization (abstract) |
| December 10 | Martin Lotz (Paderborn) | Lower Bounds in Complexity Theory (abstract) |
| December 3 | Fabian Ziltener | Vortices and Gromov Witten Invariants (abstract) |
| November 26 | Thomas Borek | Introduction to Arakelov Geometry (abstract) |
| November 19 | François Dahmani | Zeta functions of discrete groups, and the Selberg Trace Formula (abstract) |
| November 12 | Antoine Praz | A Proof of Luttinger's Theorem (abstract) |
| November 5 | Beat Steiner | Group Rings and Group-Graded Rings (abstract) |
| October 29 | David Pumberger | Regularity of Harmonic Maps (abstract) |
Summer term 2003
| July 4 | Patrick Bonvin | Cocycles acting on the circle and bounded cohomology |
| June 27 | Stephane Felix | Singular geometry and billards |
| June 20 | Semen Malamud | The geometry of roots of a polynomial, majorization, and an inverse spectral problem |
| June 13 | Matthias Traulsen | Drinfeld Modules and Galois Representations |
| June 6 | Nicolas Stalder | Applying modular representation theory to the p-ranks of curves |
| May 23 | Gabriele Biucchi (HU Berlin) | KP equations and Hurwitz spaces |
| May 16 | Theo Bühler | Sharing insights on groupoids |
| May 9 | Karin Baur | Representations of classical groups and some aspects of their decomposition |