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In this talk I will discuss the phenomenon in which predictable large-scale behavior emerges from a combination of many simple microscopic random elements. In queueing theory this is sometimes called a fluid limit.

I will describe some long-…

Professor Freed has worked on a variety of problems in geometry, topology, and global analysis. His research often relates to mathematical questions in theoretical physics: quantum field theory, string theory, and condensed matter theory.

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Seating is very limited

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Maryam Mirzakhani Graduate Fellowship, Office of Development, Stanford University, 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305

Many mathematical concepts trace their origins to everyday experience, from astronomy to mechanics. Remarkably, ideas from quantum theory turn out to carry tremendous mathematical power too, even though we have little intuition dealing with elementary particles. The bizarre quantum world not…

The bizarre quantum world not only represents a more fundamental description of nature, it also inspires a new realm of mathematics that might be called “quantum mathematics” that turns out to be a powerful tool to solve deep outstanding mathematical problems.

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There will be a Memorial Symposium exploring parts of the life’s work of our late colleague, the late Solomon Feferman, held at Stanford under the joint sponsorship of the Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics. It will take place on June 5, 2017, just after (and in connection with) this year…

I will discuss the Hecke category in its constructible and diagrammatic incarnations, and state recent theorems and conjectures which suggest that the Hecke category completely controls algebraic representations (as a "module category" in the sense of higher representation theory).

In memory of Joseph B. Keller 

 I will discuss the geometric Satake equivalence and Finkelberg-Mirkovic conjecture. This provides a conceptually satisfying constructible setting in which to understand Lusztig's conjecture.

This will be a brief introduction to the world of algebraic representations