Past Events

The Stanford Undergraduate Research Institute in Mathematics is a ten week program that provides Stanford undergraduates the opportunity to work on mathematical problems in an extra-curricular context. Most students will work on interesting mathematical problems in a collaborative environment. A…

Mathematics seems to develop by revisiting a few basic motifs over and over again. This talk, accessible to an audience of all ages and backgrounds, will describe some of these classical and modern motifs, their appearances in astronomy, chemistry and architecture and their echoes in the…

Geometric methods have revolutionized the field of image processing and image analysis. I will review some of these classical methods including image snakes, total variation minimization, image segmentation methods based on curve minimization, diffuse interface methods, and state of the art fast…

In the early 1930's, the Ergodic theorems of von Neumann and Birkhoff put Boltzmann's Ergodic Hypothesis in mathematical terms, and the natural question was born: is ergodicity the "general case" among conservative dynamical systems?  Oxtoby and Ulam tackled this question early on and…

We propose a strengthening of the Grothendieck-Lefschetz hyperplane theorem for the local Picard group, prove some special cases and derive several consequences to the deformation theory of log canonical singularities.

A conference to honor the 70th Birthday of Professor George Papanicolaou.

Let M be a subset of CN defined as the common zero set of some holomorphic functions. What can one say about the local structure of M? Each point p ! M has an open neighborhood that is a cone over an (odd real dimensional) topological space called the link of p. If p is a smooth point of…

I will discuss in more detail some of the topics addressed in my colloquium talk. (I will assume familiarity with basic aspects of rigid-analytic geometry.)

 I will discuss in more detail some of the topics addressed in my colloquium talk. (I will assume familiarity with basic aspects of rigid-analytic geometry.)