Colloquium and MSS 2012-13 Playlist

September 6, 2012 Speaker: Sheldon Katz (UIUC) Title: A Mathematician’s Search for The Higgs Boson Higgs Boson Love Song http://www.realscience.us/2012/07/13/sdf-higgs-boson-love-song/

September 13, 2012 David Borthwick (Emory University) Title: Resonances of hyperbolic surfaces Meron Niggun by the "CBH Band" (David’s wife’s band)

September 27, 2012 Speaker: Alessio Figalli (University of Texas - Austin) Title: Stability results for functional inequalities and applications I’m forever blowing bubbles (Vera Lynn version)

October 11, 2012 Speaker: Jayce Getz (Duke University) Title: An introduction to Langlands functoriality Mas que nada by Sergio Mendes and the Black-Eyed Peas. http://vimeo.com/8428868

October 18, 2012 Speaker: Alex Furman (University of Illinois at Chicago) Title: Groups with good pedigrees, or superrigidity revisited I might be wrong by Radiohead.

November 1, 2012 Speaker: Dan Freed (University of Texas) Title: Chern-Weil forms and abstract homotopy theory Abstract Exteriors II by Topology [From Wikipeadia] Topology is a post-modernist quintet from Australia, formed in 1997. A leading Australian new music ensemble, they perform throughout Australia and abroad and have to date released four albums, including one with rock/electronica band Full Fathom Five and one with contemporary ensemble Loops. The group works with composers including Tim Brady in Canada, Andrew Poppy, Michael Nyman, and Jeremy Peyton Jones in the UK, and , , , Carl Stone, and Paul Dresher in the US, as well as many Australian composers.

November 8, 2012 Speaker: Marianna Csornyei (University of Chicago) Title: Differentiability of Lipschitz functions and tangents of sets Abstract Bach Fugue in G minor

November 13, 2012 (MSS) Speaker: Mireille Boutin (School of ECE and Dept. of Math, Purdue) Title: The Pascal Triangle of a discrete Image: definition, properties, and application to homeland security Ode to the brain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7jSFeVz1U

November 15, 2012 Speaker: Jeff Vaaler (University of Texas - Austin) Title: : Diophantine inequalities for height functions Diophantine by Solarity [from their facebook page] Solarity are the much-hyped duo of Alfie Granger- Howell and Nick Harriman, both born and raised in . Their music takes the best aspects of techno, house, trance and everything in between, fusing it together in a potent mix that is full of both musicality and emotion. From hypnotic grooves and understated melodies, to epic breakdowns and mind-bending electronics, their music has been eagerly winning over fans on a global level, DJs and clubbers alike.

December 6, 2012 Speaker: Gigliola Staffilani (MIT) Title: Almost Sure Well-posedness for Evolution Equations Skyfall (007 theme song) by Adele

February 7, 2013 Speaker: Walter Craig (McMaster) Title: Vortex filament interactions and Hamiltonian PDEs Giant Steps by John Coltrane

February 14, 2013 Speaker: Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University) Title: Understanding, formal verification, and the philosophy of mathematics La chanson de Prévert, by Serge Gainsbourg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai1JLPp4UMA

February 21, 2013 Speaker: James Fill (Johns Hopkins University) Title: Distributional Convergence for the Number of Symbol Comparisons Used by QuickSort The Quiksort Dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ywWBy6J5gz8

March 5-7, 2013, TONDEUR LECTURES IN MATHEMATICS Speaker: Jeff Cheeger (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Title: Quantitative Behavior of Singular Sets for Certain Geometric PDE's VUK (Emily Cheeger) 1. Accidental Mermaid 2. Red Beard 3. The Plains Vuk/Emily is a Finish artist who characterizes her style as "experimental chamber pop". She provides the voice, lyrics, and music composition for the album, and also plays most of the music consisting of guitar, percussion, and experimental sounds herself. All three songs are from her second CD "The Plains", which she says was “fueled by dreams, musings, memories and spaghetti Westerns.”

March 12, 2013 (MSS) Speaker: William Taber (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Title: A Flight of Curiosity—a Mathematician’s Tale Elton John: Rocket Man

March 14, 2013 Speaker: Benny Sudakov (UCLA) Title: Induced Matchings, Arithmetic Progressions and Communication

March 28, 2013 Speaker: Robert Jerrard (University of Toronto) Title: Weak solutions of an equation describing vortex filaments Thelonius Monk: Functional http://youtu.be/kDEZS1nPgrY

April 2, 2013 (MSS) Speaker: Rob Kirby (University of California-Berkeley) Title: What is the future of math journals? Chopin: Funeral March

April 4, 2013 Speaker: Eckhard Meinrenken (University of Toronto) Title: On the linearization of Poisson Lie group structures Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH: Duets (3) for 2 Violins & Piano, Op.97d http://youtu.be/gJ7zYB3uEFY

April 18, 2013 Speaker: Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford) Title: Spectral geometry of the Riemann moduli space Take Five, Sachal Studios Orchestra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLF46JKkCNg

May 2, 2013 Speaker: Kavita Ramanan (Brown University) Title: Spectral geometry of the Riemann moduli space A taste of Carnatic music (South Indian classical music): In this clip, you hear Ravikiran, a child prodigy, preeminent Carnatic musician and undisputed master of the chitravina, a 21-stringed fretless lute and possibly the world's oldest slide instrument. He is playing a krithi (a certain type of composition) in the language Tamil, composed by M.M. Dandapani Desikar, a 20th century composer, in the raagam ("mode") amruthavarshini (a pentatonic scale) set to the taalam ("meter") adi (a 16-beat cycle).