Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Iain Johnstone (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 June 2018, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Eigenstructure in high dimensional random effects models

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Iain Johnstone (Stanford University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 June 2018, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Managing Model Risk in Banking

UNQ - Uncertainty quantification for complex systems: theory and methodologies

Spyros Skoulakis (KPMG).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 June 2018, 11:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Philippe Rigollet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 June 2018, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Uncoupled isotonic regression via minimum Wasserstein deconvolution

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Philippe Rigollet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 June 2018, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On applications of Empirical Bayes approaches to the Normal Means problem

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Matthew Stephens (University of Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 June 2018, 14:00-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On applications of Empirical Bayes approaches to the Normal Means problem

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Matthew Stephens (University of Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 June 2018, 14:00-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Jana Jankova (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 June 2018, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Asymptotic Inference for Eigenstructure of Large Covariance Matrices

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Jana Jankova (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 June 2018, 14:45-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Bridging Molecular and Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis Through Graphite Conjugation

Prof. Yogesh Surendranath, MIT, Cambridge, USA.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Monday 25 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Flori Bunea (Cornell University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 June 2018, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A fast algorithm with minimax optimal guarantees for topic models with an unknown number of topics

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Flori Bunea (Cornell University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 June 2018, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Reducibility and Computational Lower Bounds for Problems with Planted Sparse Structure

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Guy Bresler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Chao Gao (University of Chicago).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dykstra’s Algorithm, ADMM, and Coordinate Descent: Connections, Insights, and Extensions

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Ryan Tibshirani (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Two network scale challenges:Constructing and fitting hierarchical block models and fitting large block models using the mean field method

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Peter Bickel (University of California, Berkeley).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Adaptive estimation of the rank of the regression coefficient matrix

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Marten Herman Wegkamp (Cornell University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 14:00-14:45

Winton Discussions

The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies

Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Competitive Online Algorithms for Budgeted Allocation with Application to Online Experiment Design

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Maryam Fazel (University of Washington).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

An Approximate Shapley-Folkman Theorem.

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Alex d'Aspremont (CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Selection and Clustering of Correlated variables using OWL/GrOWL regularizers

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Urvashi Oswal (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Matrix completion in network analysis

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 09:45-10:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Antarctic sea-ice control on glacial and modern deep-ocean circulation and carbon storage

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

Alice Marzocchi, NOC.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Estimating sparse additive auto-regressive network models

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Garvesh Raskutti (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Representation, optimization and generalization properties of deep neural networks

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Peter Bartlett (University of California, Berkeley).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Candidates vs. Noises Estimation for Large Multi-Class Classification Problem

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Tong Zhang (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Estimating a covariance function from fragments of functional data

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Aurore Delaigle (University of Melbourne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Statistical Optimality of Stochastic Gradient Descent on Hard Learning Problems through Multiple Passes

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Francis Bach (INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt; ENS - Paris).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Monte Carlo adjusted profile likelihood, with applications to spatiotemporal and phylodynamic inference.

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Edward Ionides (University of Michigan).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Asymptotics of Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues for Large Structured Random Matrices

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Jinchi Lv (University of Southern California).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 14:00-14:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bridging the gap between atomistic and macroscopic models of homogeneous nucleation

Bingqing Cheng, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Are there needles in a (moving) haystack? Adaptive sensing for detection and estimation of static and dynamically evolving signals

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Rui Castro (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 14:45-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Robust Estimation via Robust Gradient Estimation

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Pradeep Ravikumar (Carnegie Mellon University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 16:00-16:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Alexandre Tsybakov (CREST: Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 29 June 2018, 09:00-09:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Group invariance and computational sufficiency

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Vincent Vu (Ohio State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 29 June 2018, 09:45-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Data perturbation for data science

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 29 June 2018, 11:00-11:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Deconfounding using Spectral Transformations

STSW04 - Future challenges in statistical scalability

Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zürich); Domagoj Ćevid (ETH Zürich).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 29 June 2018, 11:45-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The model-independent theory of (∞,1)-categories (1)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 July 2018, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher categories and algebraic K-theory (1)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 July 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher Segal spaces (1)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Tobias Dyckerhoff (Universität Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 July 2018, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Factorization homology (1)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

John Francis (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 July 2018, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Sarah Yeakel (University of Maryland, College Park).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The model-independent theory of (∞,1)-categories (2)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 July 2018, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher categories and algebraic K-theory (2)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 July 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher Segal spaces (2)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Tobias Dyckerhoff (Universität Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 July 2018, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Factorization homology (2)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

John Francis (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 July 2018, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Andrew Blumberg (University of Texas at Austin).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The model-independent theory of (∞,1)-categories (3)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 10:00-11:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jeff Tallon, Victoria University of Wellington.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Moving-mesh finite element modeling of ocean circulation near ice shelf grounding lines

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

Ben Yeager, Imperial College London.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher categories and algebraic K-theory (3)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The model-independent theory of (∞,1)-categories (4)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 July 2018, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher categories and algebraic K-theory (4)

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 July 2018, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Higher categories of higher categories

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Rune Haugseng (Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 July 2018, 13:30-14:30

British Antarctic Survey

Interconnectivity between volume transports through Arctic straits

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Agatha de Boer, Stockholm University.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Thursday 05 July 2018, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Christopher Schommer-Pries (University of Notre Dame).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 July 2018, 14:30-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Configuration spaces of fiber bundles

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Kathryn Hess (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 05 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Claudia Scheimbauer (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 July 2018, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hermitian K-theory for Waldhausen infinity categories with genuine duality

HHHW01 - Higher structures in homotopy theory

Markus Spitzweck (Universität Osnabrück).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 06 July 2018, 11:30-12:30

Special Departmental Seminars

Seminars by the candidates for the lectureship in High Energy Physics (fixed term)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 16 July 2018, 14:00-17:00

Special Departmental Seminars

Seminars by the candidates for the lectureship in High Energy Physics

Speaker to be confirmed.

Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 July 2018, 09:00-15:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 18 July 2018, 16:30-18:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

'tbc'

Professor Guosheng Liu from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 19 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Nanostructures Prepared from Self-Assembly of Pillararene-Based Macrocyclic Amphiphiles and Supramolecular Amphiphiles

Professor Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 24 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 August 2018, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 19 September 2018, 16:30-18:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Hunting ultra high energy neutrinos with the ANITA experiment

Linda Cremonesi (UCL).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 15:00-16:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanism-driven catalyst design for sustainable chemistry (Prof. Carrow)

Professor Brian McNaughton, Colorado State University and Professor Brad Carrow, Princeton University..

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 15:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Doron Puder, Tel Aviv.

MR13.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

tbc (Image analysis for cancer treatment)

Dr. Mireia Crispin (CRUK & Cavendish Laboratory).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 15:00-16:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Jeffrey Lloyd, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen MD.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Birgit Strodel, Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

The quantum Steenrod square

Nicholas Wilkins, Oxford.

MR13.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Mauro Di Nasso (University of Pisa).

MR12.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:30-15:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Full-field optical metrology

Jonathan Huntley, Department of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Loughborough.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Algebraic K-theory and exact Lagrangians in cotangent bundles

Thomas Kragh, Uppsala.

MR13.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Catharina Stroppel, Bonn.

MR13.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Peter Townsend, SMF Surface Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Using Microwell Array Technology to Probe Chemistry and Biology at Their Fundamental Limits

Professor David R Walt, Harvard Medical School.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Manuel Krannich, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

MINERvA cross sections

Xianguo Lu (Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nicola Marzari ( EPFL).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Siân Dutton, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

3-body B decays (TBC)

Keri Vos (Siegen University).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Claudia Filippi, University of Twente.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

'tbc'

Professor Michael Greaney, University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

'tbc'

Professor David Leigh, University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Neil Curson, Centre for the Advanced Characterisation of Materials, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

'tbc'

Professor Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Alex Hopkins Lecture

Speaker to be confirmed.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Title and date to be confirmed

Elon Lindenstrauss.

MR2, CMS.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 17:00-18:00