Colloquia
KdVI Colloquia and Seminars
General Mathematics Colloquium
Traditionally the General Mathematics Colloquium takes place on Wednesday mornings. Each academic year, between 20 and 25 lectures are scheduled with speakers from other Dutch (mathematics or mathematics related) institutes or from abroad, as well as from the KdV Institute itself. In particular, guests from abroad who are staying at the KdV Institute for a shorter or longer period of time are invited to lecture in the colloquium. Furthermore, many defendants of a PhD thesis in mathematics at the UvA also give a lecture in the colloquium shortly before their thesis defense.
The audience of the colloquium consists on average of 20-30 people. The colloquium thus forms an outstanding platform for the lecturers to disseminate new developments to the institute in all branches of mathematics as well as surveys of mathematical methods that are currently en vogue. The organizers are Tanja Eisner, Hessel Posthuma and Neil Walton.
The Algebra and Geometry seminar
The Algebra and Geometry seminar is a seminar, sometimes weekly and sometimes more irregularly, organized by Van der Geer devoted to new developments in Algebra and Geometry with also a large emphasis on the education of PhD students. Besides local people, guests from other places give lectures.
Numerical Mathematics Colloquium
The Numerical Mathematics Colloquium takes place approximately once a month. The purpose is that researchers at the KdV institute get acquainted with research from other institutes. It attempts to follow recent developments in the Dutch Numerical Mathematical community by inviting speakers with recently developed work. The audience consists of approximately 8 to 10 people among researchers from the KdV institute and the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica.
Colloquium Stochastics and Financial Mathematics
The topics of the Colloquium are varying, often depending on the fields of interests of invited speakers. The audience usually consists of researchers of the Korteweg-de Vries institute that are active in Probability and Statistics, but we also often welcome people from other research institutes. The organizers are Neil Walton and Martijn Pistorius..
In September 2011 the UvA Dynamical Systems Seminar merges with the
Dynamic Analysis Seminar
of the VU. There will be a talk every two weeks,
moving back and forth between the VU and the UvA. The seminar meets from
16:00 to 17:00 on Wednesdays. The topic is dynamical systems in a broad
sense, including both theoretical and applied subjects. If you are
interested in giving a talk, please contact Han Peters
(h.peters
uva.nl).
We will continue to have analysis talks at the UvA on subjects that have
little to do with dynamical systems; those talks may occur at any day and time.
The AiO seminar of the KdV institute is meant for PhD students, to talk about their research in an informal way to their colleagues, and to provide them with a a way to learn what their fellow PhD students are doing. In the fall of 2011 it is organised by Loek Spitz and Arie Peterson. Since the audience will consists of PhD students from all areas of mathematics, the talks will be of an introductory nature, leaving the technical details for more specialized seminars.
Further seminars and meetings of interest
- Faculty Colloquium. This is a monthly meeting for all employees of the Faculty of Science of UvA. It takes place in the big lecture room (C1.110) at Science Park 904.