We are forwarding announcement regarding 34th Mathematical Colloquium.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the Mathematical Colloquium will continue with its 34rd session on

Wednesday  March 12th, 2025, 16:00  in lecture hall K1

The speaker is   

   Patrick E. Farrell (University of Oxford) 

Title:  Predicting the future by solving equations

Abstract

Humans have sought to predict the future for as long as we have existed. One of the key ideas of the scientific revolution was that we can predict the future of physical systems by writing down the laws of physics as differential equations and solving them. Our capacity to do this has recently increased dramatically due to better computers, and better algorithms. This technology has quietly revolutionised industrial civilisation in countless ways, from predicting the weather a week in advance, to designing space planes without wind tunnels, and to understanding the gravitational waves detected by LIGO. In this lecture I will review this subject, discuss some of my own contributions, and mention some important open problems in the field.