Seminars and colloquia

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics regularly organises seminars and colloquia open to all. The events are listed on this page.

9-12/2023, Chaired by Hans-Olav Tylli

  • 27.9.2023 Colloquium talk cancelled
  • 25.10.2023 TBA
  • 29.11.2023 TBA
  • 20.12.2023 TBA

1-5/2023 Chaired by Matti Pirinen

  • Wed 25.1.2023, 16.15. Tuomas Hytönen (Helsingin yliopisto): Matrix weights, convex bodies, and the angle between past and future.
  • Wed 1.3.2023, 16.15. Menachem Magidor (Hebrew University): Regularity properties of subsets of the real line and other Polish spaces
  • Wed 29.3.2023, 16.15. Matti Vihola (University of Jyväskylä): Random thoughts about scalable Bayesian computing
  • Wed 26.4.2023, 16.15. Eveliina Peltola (Aalto University and University of Bonn): Loewner theory in complex analysis and random geometry
  • Wed 31.5.2023, 16.15. Antti Honkela (University of Helsinki): Mathematics of privacy and anonymity using differential privacy

9-12/2022 Chaired by Eva Kisdi

Wed. 28.9.2022, 16.15. Philip Maini (University of Oxford): Modelling collective cell movement in biology and medicine

Wed 2.11.2022, 16.15. Lauri Oksanen (University of Helsinki): On Calderón's problem

Mon 28.11.2022, 16.15. Tom Britton (Stockholm University): Mathematical models for epidemics (including Covid-19)

Wed 14.12.2022, 16.15. Hildegard Uecker (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology): Mathematical population genetics of bacteria: Evolutionary dynamics on extra-chromosomal DNA elements

1-5/2022 Chaired by Christian Webb

Wed. 26.1.2022, 16.15. Roland Bauerschmidt (University of Cambridge). Title: Random forests and the OSp(1|2) nonlinear sigma model

Wed. 16.2.2022, 16.15. Dallas Albritton (Institute for Advanced Study). Title: Non-uniqueness of Leray solutions of the forced Navier-Stokes equations. Note that this is not the last Wednesday of the month!

Wed. 30.3.2022, 16.15. Istvan Prause (University of Eastern Finland). Title: Complex proofs of real theorems. 

Wed. 27.4.2022, 16.15. Joni Teräväinen (University of Turku). Title: On the Möbius randomness principle

Tue. 24.5.2022, 16.15. Peter Hintz (ETH Zürich). Title: General relativity, spectral theory, and microlocal analysis. Note that the colloquium is on a Tuesday instead of a Wednesday! 

Link to Wiki-page with past colloquia