Past Events

During World War II Hedy Lamarr, a striking Hollywood actress, together with George Antheil, a radical composer, invented and patented a secret signaling system for the remote control of torpedoes. The ideas in this patent have since developed into...

Let (M,g_0) be a compact n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with a finite number of singular points, where at each singular point the metric is asymptotic to a cone over a compact (n-1)-dimensional manifold with curvature operator greater or equal to...

A mathematical discipline in its own right, probability theory also plays an important role in many other areas of mathematics, such as partial differential equations, analysis, and combinatorics. It provides the theoretical basis for statistics...

In 1961 B. Gordon defined a group to be sequenceable if its elements could be written in a sequence g_1,g_2,...,g_n such that the partial products g_1g_2...g_i are all distinct for i = 1 through n. In 1974 Ringel asked for a sequencing of the non...

Why do one-celled creatures take the shapes they do? What is the mathematics of breathing? More and more, Mathematics is intruding into the realm of biology. Here we will see how mathematical notions of "shape" fit into our understanding of living...

Albert Einstein is usually associated with Zürich, Bern, Berlin or Princeton, rather than Vienna. However, his Viennese contacts were many-sided and highly relevant for his work. Ernst Mach had a major influence on the general theory of relativity...

The search for oil and gas has three objectives: to identify and evaluate hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs; to bring hydrocarbons to the surface safely and cost-effectively, without harming the environment; and to maximize the yield from each discovery...

In 1944, Linnik famously showed unconditionally that the least prime in an arithmetic progression a (mod q) with gcd(a,q)=1 is bounded by q^L for some absolute effective constant L>0, known as “Linnik’s constant”. Many authors have computed explicit...

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org. This will be a general talk about the role of dilation theory in studying operators on Hilbert space, illustrated in part by some recent work of mine with Raphaël Clouâtre on multivariable operator...