First Semester 2026:

Wednesdays, 3-4pm (except Dec. 4)

Sept. 23, WGB 1.06: Detlef Müller (Kiel), "Why does sub-Riemannian geometry matter in harmonic analysis?" (postponed)

Sept. 30, WGB G.03: Roland Speicher (Saarland), "What Do Families of Random Matrices Converge To?"

Oct. 7, WGB G.03: Patrick Kinnear (Hamburg), "Crane-Yetter with background fields: two approaches"

Oct. 14: no colloquium

Oct. 21, WGB G.03: Claudia Alfes (Bielefeld), "From partitions to ranks, from modular forms to harmonic weak Maass forms and beyond"

Oct. 28, WGB G.03: Natalie Behague (DCU), "On sandwiches and random regular graphs"

Nov. 4, WGB G.03: Thomas Unger (UCD), "Noncommutative real algebra"

Nov. 11, WGB G.03: Ana-Maria Castravet (Versailles), "Higher Fano manifolds"

Nov. 18, WGB G.03: Ana Djurdjevac (Oxford), "Challenges in numerical analysis and discretizations of the Dean-Kawasaki equation"

Nov. 25, WGB G.03: no colloquium

Dec. 4, TBA: Dennis The (Tromsø), "Beyond the hype: what is quantum computing?"