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HS 12
Date
Title
Speaker
18.09.12
What is... an Integrable System?
Paolo Rossi
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
02.10.12
What is... Differential Galois Theory?
Andrin Schmidt
ETHZ (Zürich)
09.10.12
What is... a Quasimorphism?
Pascal Rolli
ETHZ (Zürich)
23.10.12
What is... Linear Logic?
Jonathan Skowera
Universität Zürich (Zurich)
30.10.12
What is... an L-function?
Pieter Jan Bruin
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
06.11.12
What is... a Mixed Hodge Structure?
Claudio Sibilia
ETHZ (Zürich)
20.11.12
What is... Cluster Tilting Theory?
Lisa Lamberti
ETHZ (Zürich)
11.12.12
What is... the Trace of an Endomorphism?
Martin Gallauer Alves de Souza
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
18.12.12
What is... a Splitting Scheme?
Philipp Dörsek
ETHZ (Zürich)
FS 12
Date
Title
Speaker
28.02.12
What is... a Frieze Pattern?
Manuela Tschabold
ETHZ (Zürich)
13.03.12
What is... Categorification of quantum sl2?
Marko Zivkovic
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
15.03.12
Donnerstag
What is... the Arnold Conjecture?
Raum:
ETH HG G 19.2
Cedric Membrez
ETHZ (Zürich)
27.03.12
What is... Link Homology?
Pedro Vaz
IST Lisbon (Lisbon)
29.03.12
Donnerstag
What is... the Dyson-Montgomery conjecture?
Raum:
ETH HG G 19.2
Nicolas Martinez Robles
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
17.04.12
What is... the Weight Filtration ?
Simon Pepin Lehalleur
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
03.05.12
Donnerstag
What is... Ergodic Ramsey Theory?
Raum:
ETH HG G 19.2
Michael Magnus Björklund
ETHZ (Zürich)
15.05.12
What is... The Riemann Hypothesis?
Andreas Steiger
ETHZ (Zürich)
24.05.12
Donnerstag
Cluster algebras and Grassmannians
rescheduled
Zeit:16.15-17.30
Raum:
ETH HG G 19.2
Sira Gratz
Leibniz Universität Hannover (Hannover, Germany)
29.05.12
What is... a Quasimorphism?
cancelled
Pascal Rolli
ETHZ (Zürich)
31.05.12
Donnerstag
What are... Seminormal Representations of Weyl Groups?
Raum:
ETH HG G 19.2
Leonardo Aguirre
ETHZ (Zürich)
HS 11
Date
Title
Speaker
27.09.11
What is... Scattering?
Martin Sack
ETHZ (Zürich)
04.10.11
What is... a Cover Time?
David Belius
ETHZ (Zürich)
18.10.11
What is... a Discrete Differential Form?
Pavel Mnev
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
08.11.11
What is... Thom's Cobordism Theorem?
Camilo Arias Abad
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
15.11.11
What is... a Landau-Siegel Zero?
Jakob Ditchen
ETHZ (Zürich)
29.11.11
What is... a System of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations?
Laura Valentina Spinolo
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
13.12.11
What is... the Transfer Operator Method?
Anke Pohl
ETHZ (Zürich)
20.12.11
What is... the Korteweg–de Vries Equation on the Real Line?
Beat Schaad
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
FS 11
Date
Title
Speaker
01.03.11
What is... Intelligent Bioinformatics?
Iuliana Bocicor
Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj -Napoca, Romania (Romania)
08.03.11
What is... a Pseudoholomorphic Curve?
Jonathan David Evans
ETH (Zürich)
15.03.11
What is... Random Network Coding?
Anna-Lena Trautmann
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
05.04.11
What is... Entropy?
Beverly Lytle
ETHZ (Zürich)
12.04.11
What is... Random Matrix Theory?
Yacine Barhoumi
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
03.05.11
What is... an Affine Process?
Nicoletta Gabrielli
ETHZ (Zürich)
17.05.11
What is... a Conservation Law?
Michael Blaser
ETH (Zürich) ()
24.05.11
What is... the h-Principle?
Elisabetta Chiodaroli
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
HS 10
Date
Title
Speaker
28.09.10
What is... Arithmetic Geometry?
Thomas Preu
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
05.10.10
What is...a Modular Form?
Jonas Jermann
ETHZ (Zürich)
19.10.10
What is...Cheeger-Gromov convergence?
Robert Haslhofer
ETHZ (Zürich)
02.11.10
What is...Modeling and Computation of a re-entry flight?
Kaspar Müller
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)
16.11.10
What is...Causality?
Alain Hauser
ETHZ (Zürich)
30.11.10
What is... Tropical Geometry?
Cesar Ceballos
Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin)
14.12.10
What is... a Random Polymer Model?
rescheduled
Zeit:16.15-17.15
Raum:
ETH HG G 19.1
Alessandra Cipriani
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
21.12.10
What is... Categorification?
Maria Hempel
()
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
What is... Concentration Compactness?
cancelled
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 Sutton
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 (Zurich)
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
University College Dublin (Dublin, Irland)
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
Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht)
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
Max Planck Institute, Leipzig (Leipzig)
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
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spanien)
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
Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts)
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
What is ... the abc-conjecture?
cancelled
Patrik Hubschmid
ETHZ (Zürich)
WS 06/07
Date
Title
Speaker
24.10.06
What is... a Contact Structure?
Sebastian Baader
Universität Bern (Bern)
07.11.06
What are... Finite Elements?
Daniel Peterseim
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin)
21.11.06
What are... random interfaces?
Noemi Kurt
Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Deutschland)
05.12.06
What are ... Error-Correcting Codes?
Felice Manganiello
Universität Zürich (Zürich)
12.12.06
What is ... Manin's Conjecture?
Ulrich Derenthal
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (München)
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
What are... Finite Elements?
cancelled
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
University of Copenhagen (Kopenhagen)
15.11.05
What is... Ellipitc Curve Cryptography?
Elisa Gorla
Université de Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel)
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
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
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