List of colloquiums

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The Colloquium of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of University of Helsinki

Date

Speaker

Title


(9-12/2021 chaired by Lauri Oksanen)


17.12.2021

Peter Hintz (ETH Zürich)

Cancelled (postponed to spring)

24.11.2021

Kari Auranen (University of Turku and National Institute for Health and Welfare)

Efficacy and effectiveness of case isolation and quarantine during a growing phase of the COVID-19 epidemic in Finland

26.10.2021

Hanne Kekkonen (Delft University of Technology)

Statistical guarantees for inverse problems

29.9.2021

Julie Rowlett (Chalmers University)

The strength of diversity


(1-5/2021 chaired by Sangita Kulathinal)


26.5.2021

Mikko J. Sillanpää (University of Oulu)

Interaction search in high-dimensional regression models with
applications in genetics

28.4.2021

Per Kragh Andersen (University of Copenhagen)

Multi-state models for recurrent events

31.3.2021

Kaie Kubjas (Aalto University)

Geometry of nonnegative rank

24.2.2021

Xavier de Luna (Umeå University)

Covariate balancing for robust estimation of causal effects of
categorical and continuous treatments

27.1.2021

Neil Sheldon (Teaching Statistics Trust, UK)

Statistics: what we say and what we mean


(9-12/2020 chaired by Juha Kontinen)


16.12.2020

Matti Järvisalo (University of Helsinki)

Satisfiability, redundancy, and proofs

25.11.2020

Sangita Kulathinal (University of Helsinki)

Mathematical challenges in selected statistical problems

28.10.2020

Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen University)

Symmetry and Similarity

30.9.2020

Dario Gasbarra (University of Helsinki)

Algebraic Stein operators for polynomials of Gaussian random variables


(1-5/2020 chaired by Tuomo Kuusi)


27.05.2020

Aleksandr Logunov (Princeton University)

Nodal sets and Quasiconformal mappings

29.04.2020

Weinan E (Princeton University)

A Mathematical Perspective of Machine Learning

26.02.2020

Anne-Maria Ernvall-Hytönen (University of Helsinki)

On transcendence measures

29.01.2020

Mikko Salo (University of Jyväskylä)

Inverse problems for partial differential equations


(5-12/2019 chaired by Mats Gyllenberg)


18.12.2019

Jarno Vanhatalo (University of Helsinki)

Ecological risk assessment in the Arctic Marine areas

27.11.2019

Timo Koski (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)

On probabilistic sufficient cause models of interaction

30.10.2019

Odo Diekmann (Utrecht University)

Twin semigroups and delay equations

25.9.2019

Åsa Hirvonen (University of Helsinki)

Playing games on metric spaces

15.5.2019

Bengt Holmström (MIT)

The Purpose and Perils of Money Markets – A Contract Theoretic Perspective


(1-4/2019 chaired by Juliette Kennedy)


17.4.2019

University Lecturer Ritva Hurri-Syrjänen (University of Helsinki)

On Sobolev-type inequalities and beyond

27.3.2019

Olli Martio (University of Helsinki)

Modulus of a Path Family

27.2.2019

Mats Gyllenberg (University of Helsinki)

On models of physiologically structured populations and their reduction to ordinary differential equations

30.01.2019

Jani Lukkarinen (University of Helsinki)

Mathematical puzzles in kinetic theory


(9-12/2018 chaired by Ritva Hurri-Syrjänen)


19.12.2018

Associate Professor Jani Virtanen (University of Reading)

Toeplitz determinants and their applications in mathematical physics

28.11.2018

Professor Agnieszka Kalamajska (University of Warsaw and Polish Academy of Sciences)

Strongly nonlinear multiplicative inequalities

31.10.2018

Lecturer Tuomas Sahlsten (The University of Manchester)

How to find a criminal from a city of millions?

26.9.2018

Senior Lecturer Petteri Harjulehto (University of Turku)

Generalized Orlicz spaces and related variational problems


(1-5/2018 chaired by Konstantin Izyurov)


30.05.2018

Professor Hugo Duminil-Copin (IHÉS and University of Geneva)

25.04.2018

Professor Matti Lassas (University of Helsinki)

28.03.2018

University lecturer Hans-Olav Tylli (University of Helsinki)

27.02.2018

Professor Tatiana Nagnibeda (University of Geneva)

31.01.2018

Acting Professor Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki)

20.12.2017

Professor Stefan Teufel (University of Tübingen)

29.11.2017

Assistant Professor Jarno Vanhatalo (University of Helsinki)

25.10.2017

Professor Charles M. Newman (Courant Institute & New York University)

27.9.2017

University Lecturer Ilkka Holopainen (University of Helsinki)


(1-5/2017 chaired by Pekka Pankka)


31.5.2017

Professor Pauliina Ilmonen (Aalto University)

26.4.2017

Professor Mario Bonk (UCLA)

29.3.2017

Professor Nageswari Shanmugalingam (University of Cincinnati)

22.2.2017

Professor Mikko Salo (University of Jyväskylä)

25.1.2017

Professor Juan Souto (CNRS / Université de Rennes I)

14.12.2016

Assistant Professor Konstantin Izyurov (University of Helsinki)

Conformal invariance in probability and statistical mechanics

30.11.2016

Professor Kai Rajala (University of Jyväskylä)

Uniformization of non-smooth surfaces

19.10.2016

Associate Professor Pekka Pankka (University of Helsinki)

From Picard to Rickman: An excursion to quasiregular mappings

28.9.2016

Professor Kristian Seip (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

On the growth of the Riemann zeta function

22.6.2016

Fields Medalist, Professor Cédric Villani (Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris)

Synthetic Ricci curvature -- when Monge, Boltzmann and Riemann get together


(1-5/2016 chaired by Ilkka Holopainen)


25.5.2016

Professor David Cruz-Uribe (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)

27.4.2016

Professor Xiao Zhong (University of Jyväskylä)

30.3.2016

Professor (emer.) Pertti Mattila (University of Helsinki)

24.2.2016

Research Professor Ilkka Norros (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd)

27.01.2016

Professor Pekka Koskela (University of Jyväskylä)


(9-12/2015 chaired by Jari Taskinen)


16.12.2015

Professor Jeremy Tyson (University of Illinois)

Bi-Lipschitz embeddings and differentiation

25.11.2015

Professor Jesper Lützen (University of Copenhagen)

Laurent Schwartz' Danish Connection

28.10.2015

Professor Nathanael Berestycki (University of Cambridge)

Recent developments in Liouville quantum gravity

30.09.2015

Professor Kaisa Nyberg (Aalto University)

Improving Accuracy of Statistical Cryptanalysis


(1-5/2015 chaired by Matti Lassas)


27.05.2015

Professor Juha Oikkonen (Univ. of Helsinki)

What is there in improving university level math courses?

29.04.2015

Professor Jouko Mickelsson (University of Helsinki)

K Theory and Physics

25.03.2015

Professor Spyridon Alexakis (University of Toronto)

The impossibility of periodic motion in general relativity

25.02.2015

Professor Kalle Kytölä (Aalto University)

Conformally invariant scaling limits

28.01.2015

Professor Samuli Siltanen (University of Helsinki)

Inverse Problems in Human Speech


(10-12/2014 chaired by Mats Gyllenberg)


17.12.2014

Timo Koski (KTH, Stockholm)

Arthur Cayley, Independent Causation and Rothman's Pie

26.11.2014

Odo Diekmann (Utrecht University)

Delay Equations

29.10.2014

Boban Velickovic

Forcing axioms and their use in mathematics

01.10.2014

Johan Stén (VTT)

Anders Johan Lexell - a Finnish comet of the Enlightenment

28.05.2014

Professor Heikki Haario (Lappeenranta University of Technology)

Talk on uncertainty quantification of weather and climate models

23.04.2014

University lecturer Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki)

Turing, Gödel, Formalism Freeness and Inner Models of Set Theory

26.03.2014

Assistant Professor Camilla Hollanti (Aalto University)

Algebraic Number Theory meets Wireless Communications

26.02.2014

Professor Erik Aurell (KTH, Stockholm)

Inference for large-scale Potts models using pseudolikelihood

29.01.2014

Assistant Professor Teemu Roos (University of Helsinki)

Complexity in Statistical Inference


(9-12/2013 chaired by Tuomas Hytönen)


18.12.2013

Stefanie Petermichl (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)

Hankel operators and their generalisations in Real Analysis

27.11.2013

Juha Alho (University of Helsinki)

How long can we live? Statistical perspectives on longevity

30.10.2013

Valtteri Niemi (University of Turku)

Classes of garbling schemes

25.09.2013

Tuomo Kuusi (Aalto University)

Potential estimates and nonlinear partial differential equations

20.02.2013

Per Christian Hansen (Technical University of Denmark)

Image deblurring with Krylov subspace methods

30.01.2013

Andres Villaveces (National University of Colombia)

Model theory, becoming more geometric?

28.11.2012

Jean-Pierre Eckmann (University of Geneva)

Atoms, Nuclei and 3D triangulations

31.10.2012

Professor Kaisa Matomäki (Turku University)

Additive problems involving primes

26.09.2012

Professor Alexander Engström (Aalto University)

Polytopes from subgraph statistics


(1-5/2012 chaired by Jouko Mickelsson)


23.05.2012

Professor Peter Jones (Yale University)

Product Formulas for Measures and Applications to Analysis and Geometry

25.04.2012

Professor Jukka Corander

How has our understanding about bacterial evolution evolved during the genomic era?

28.03.2012

Associate professor Tuomas Hytönen

How much, or little, is necessary for (harmonic) analysis?

29.02.2012

Doctor Esko Keski-Vakkuri

D-branes and dualities

25.01.2012

Professor Matti Lassas

Cloaking, Invisibility, and Inverse Problems

14.12.2011

University Lecturer Jari Taskinen

Wheeltappers, compact sets and sobolev embeddings

30.11.2011

Professor Mika Seppälä (University of Helsinki and Florida State University)

Algebraic Curves, Riemann Surfaces, and their Jacobians

26.10.2011

Professor Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington, Seattle)

Inverse geometry

28.09.2011

Professor Tom Körner (Cambridge University)

Why is Analysis 101 so hard?

25.05.2011

Professor Gaven J. Martin (Massey University, New Zealand)

Quasiregular Mappings, Curvature & Dynamics

27.04.2011

Professor Pentti Saikkonen

Parameter Estimation in Nonlinear Autoregressive Models with Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity

30.03.2011

Professor Kari Astala

Holomorphic motions

23.02.2011

Professor Jouko Väänänen

Logic and set theory

26.01.2011

Professor Peter Lindqvist
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)

The Infinity-Laplace Equation

15.12.2010

Professor Kari Vilonen (Northwestern University)

The microlocal codimension three conjecture

24.11.2010

Professor Antti Kupiainen

Renormalization - from Magic to Mathematics

27.10.2010

Professor Michael Lacey (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Pointwise Convergence of Fourier Series: Past, Present and Future

29.09.2010

Professor Jukka Corander

Have I Seen You Before? Principles of predictive classification revisited

15.09.2010

Professor Menachem Magidor (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Some reflections on the Continuum Hypothesis


(1-4/2010 chaired by Kari Astala)


28.04.2010

Professor Eero Saksman

On random geometry

31.03.2010

Professor Jean Bricmont (Université catholique de Louvain)

From the microscopic to the macroscopic world

24.02.2010

Professor Karen Smith (University of Michigan + University of Jyväskylä)

Thresholds of Singularities

27.01.2010

Professor Juha Kinnunen (Helsinki University of Technology - Aalto University)

On a theorem of Beckenbach and Rado for subharmonic functions


(9-12/2009 chaired by Eero Saksman)


09.12.2009

University lecturer Tapani Hyttinen

Finding fields

25.11.2009

Professor Maarit Järvenpää

How to turn a needle?

28.10.2009

Professor Jani Onninen

Deformations of finite (total) conformal energy and the nitsche conjecture

30.09.2009

Professor Matti Jutila

The role of Hardy's function in the theory of Riemann's zeta function


(1-6/2009 chaired by Lassi Päivärinta)


03.06.2009

Professor Mats Gyllenberg

Population dynamics, delay equations and semigroups

29.04.2009

Professor Jouko Mickelsson

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: the operator residue, the trace and the fredholm index

25.03.2009

Professor Yuval Peres (Microsoft research and University of Washington)

Visual mathematics - the case of fair allocations

25.02.2009

Professor Samuli Siltanen

Inversion methods for three-dimensional medical x-ray imaging

28.01.2009

Professor Elja Arjas

Randomness, probability and learning: some simple illustrations and ideas