The Departmental Colloquia series began in 2010. The purpose of the series is two fold: to hear from some of the world's leading mathematicians and statisticians, and to provide a forum for the department (faculty, research fellows, and postgraduate students) to meet.
There is usually a reception following the talk, with an opportunity to meet the speaker (pre-COVID19 arrangements).
Past Colloquia 2010-2013
- 2013 (Serfaty, Senn, Tenenbaum, Bertozzi)
- 2012 (Werner, Fokas, McCullagh)
- 2011 (Cox, Otto, Embrechts)
- 2010 (Gowers, Lieb, Sinai)
2013 (Serfaty, Senn, Tenenbaum, Bertozzi)
- Prof Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)
"Mathematics of Crime"
Monday, 9 December 2013
See event page for further details, inlcuding the abstract - Prof Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Modeling human decision making with probabilistic programs"
Thursday, 2 May 2013
See event page for further details, including the abstract - Prof Stephen Senn (CCMS Luxembourg)
"Margin of error or critical condition?"
Thursday, 21 March 2013
See event page for further details, including the abstract - Professor Sylvia Serfaty (Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6)
"Questions of crystallisation in two-dimensional Coulomb systems"
Thursday, 31st January 2013
See event page for further details, including the abstract
2012 (Werner, Fokas, McCullagh)
- Professor Peter McCullagh FRS (University of Chicago)
"Some issues connected with likelihood and REML"
8 March 2012
Poster - Professor McCullagh 2012 - Professor Athanassios S. Fokas (University of Cambridge)
"Integrability, Medical Imaging, and Boundary Value Problems"
23 February 2012
Poster - Professor Fokas 2012 - Professor Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud 11)
"Random surfaces, random geometries"
26 January 2012
For more infomation please see the event webpage
Poster - Professor Werner 2012
2011 (Cox, Otto, Embrechts)
- Professor Paul Embrechts (ETH Zurich)
“The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Financial Mathematics?”
1 December 2011
Poster - Professor Embrechts 2011 - Professor Felix Otto (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany)
"Pattern Formation and Partial Differential Equations
15 June 2011
Poster - Professor Otto 2011 - Professor Sir David Cox (Nuffield College, Oxford)
"A number of examples will be given showing how probabilistic models are used to interpret empirical phenomena."
4 March 2011
Poster - Professor Cox 2011
2010 (Gowers, Lieb, Sinai)
- Professor Yakov Sinai (Princeton University)
"The Decay of Fourier modes in solutions of the Navier Navier-Stokes System"
18 June 2010
Poster - Professor Sinai 2010 - Professor Elliott Lieb (Princeton University)
"Mathematics of the Bose Gas: A truly quantum quantum-mechanical many many-body problem"
2 June 2010
Poster - Professor Lieb 2010 - Professor Timothy Gowers (University of Cambridge)
"Open Mathematics ... and a new proof of the density Hales-Jewett theorem
12 March 2010
Poster - Professor Gowers 2010