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<b>UW Madison mathematics Colloquium is on Fridays at 4:00 pm. </b>
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== January 10, 2022, Monday at 4pm in B239 + [http://go.wisc.edu/wuas48 Live stream], [https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~gheissari/ Reza Gheissari] (UC Berkeley) ==
(reserved by the hiring committee)
'''Surface phenomena in the 2D and 3D Ising model'''
Since its introduction in 1920, the Ising model has been one of the most studied models of phase transitions in statistical physics. In its low-temperature regime, the model has two thermodynamically stable phases, which, when in contact with each other, form an interface: a random curve in 2D and a random surface in 3D. In this talk, I will survey the rich phenomenology of this interface in 2D and 3D, and describe recent progress in understanding its geometry in various parameter regimes where different surface phenomena and universality classes emerge.
== January 17, 2022, Monday at 4pm in B239 + [http://go.wisc.edu/wuas48 Live stream], [https://sites.google.com/view/lovingmath/home Marissa Loving] (Georgia Tech) ==
(reserved by the hiring committee)
'''Symmetries of surfaces: big and small'''
We will introduce both finite and infinite-type surfaces and study their collections of symmetries, known as mapping class groups. The study of the mapping class group of finite-type surfaces has played a central role in low-dimensional topology stretching back a hundred years to work of Max Dehn and Jakob Nielsen, and gaining momentum and significance through the celebrated work of Bill Thurston on the geometry of 3-manifolds. In comparison, the study of the mapping class group of infinite-type surfaces has exploded only within the past few years. Nevertheless, infinite-type surfaces appear quite regularly in the wilds of mathematics with connections to dynamics, the topology of 3-manifolds, and even descriptive set theory -- there is a great deal of rich mathematics to be gained in their study! In this talk, we will discuss the way that the study of surfaces intersects and interacts with geometry, algebra, and number theory, as well as some of my own contributions to this vibrant area of study.
== January 21, 2022, Friday at 4pm in B239 + [http://go.wisc.edu/wuas48 Live stream] [https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nfm2/ Nicholas Marshall]  (Princeton) ==
(reserved by the hiring committee)
'''Laplacian quadratic forms, function regularity, graphs, and optimal transport'''
In this talk, I will discuss two different applications of harmonic analysis to
problems motivated by data science. Both problems involve using Laplacian
quadratic forms to measure the regularity of functions. In both cases the key
idea is to understand how to modify these quadratic forms to achieve a specific
goal. First, in the graph setting, we suppose that a collection of m graphs
G_1 = (V,E_1),...,G_m=(V,E_m) on a common set of vertices V is given,
and consider the problem of finding the 'smoothest' function f : V -> R with
respect to all graphs simultaneously, where the notion of smoothness is defined
using graph Laplacian quadratic forms. Second, on the unit square [0,1]^2, we
consider the problem of efficiently computing linearizations of 2-Wasserstein
distance; here, the solution involves quadratic forms of a Witten Laplacian.
== January 24, 2022, Monday at 4pm in B239 + [http://go.wisc.edu/wuas48 Live stream], [https://sites.google.com/view/skippermath Rachel Skipper] (Ohio State) ==
(reserved by the hiring committee)
'''From simple groups to symmetries of surfaces'''
We will take a tour through some families of groups of historic importance in geometric group theory, including self-similar groups and Thompson’s groups. We will discuss the rich, continually developing theory of these groups which act as symmetries of the Cantor space, and how they can be used to understand the variety of infinite simple groups. Finally, we will discuss how these groups are serving an important role in the newly developing field of big mapping class groups which are used to describe symmetries of surfaces.
== February 25, 2022, [https://sites.google.com/view/rohini-ramadas/home Rohini Ramadas] (Warwick) ==
(WIMAW)
== March 2 and 4, 2022 (Wednesday and Friday),  [http://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~roblaz/ Robert Lazarsfeld] (Stony Brook) ==
('''Departmental Distinguished Lecture series''')
== March 11, 2022, [https://people.math.wisc.edu/~anderson/ David Anderson] (UW-Madison) ==
(local)
== March 25, 2022, [http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~canary/ Richard Canary] (Michigan) ==
(hosted by Zimmer)
== April 1, 2022, reserved TBA ==
(WIMAW)
== April 8, 2022, [https://math.temple.edu/~tuf27009/index.html Matthew Stover] (Temple University) ==
(hosted by Zimmer)
== April 15, 2022, RESERVED, (TBA) ==
(hosted by Gong)
== April 22, 2022, [https://www.math.uni-kiel.de/analysis/de/mueller Detlef Müller] (Kiel, Germany) ==
(hosted by Seeger and Stovall)
== April 25-26-27 (Monday [VV B239], Tuesday [Chamberlin 2241], Wednesday [VV B239]) 4 pm  [https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.php?pid=1461 Larry Guth] (MIT) ==
('''Departmental Distinguished Lecture series''')
== Past Colloquia ==
[[Colloquia/Fall2021|Fall 2021]]
[[Colloquia/Spring2021|Spring 2021]]
[[Colloquia/Fall2020|Fall 2020]]
[[Colloquia/Spring2020|Spring 2020]]
[[Colloquia/Fall2019|Fall 2019]]
[[Colloquia/Spring2019|Spring 2019]]
[[Colloquia/Fall2018|Fall 2018]]
[[Colloquia/Spring2018|Spring 2018]]
[[Colloquia/Fall2017|Fall 2017]]
[[Colloquia/Spring2017|Spring 2017]]
[[Archived Fall 2016 Colloquia|Fall 2016]]
[[Colloquia/Spring2016|Spring 2016]]
[[Colloquia/Fall2015|Fall 2015]]
[[Colloquia/Spring2014|Spring 2015]]
[[Colloquia/Fall2014|Fall 2014]]
[[Colloquia/Spring2014|Spring 2014]]
[[Colloquia/Fall2013|Fall 2013]]
[[Colloquia 2012-2013|Spring 2013]]
[[Colloquia 2012-2013#Fall 2012|Fall 2012]]
[[WIMAW]]

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