Colloquium 2009

The colloquium typically meets Mondays at 4:00 PM in Room 617 on the sixth floor of Wachman Hall.

The colloquium is preceded by tea starting at 3:30 in the Faculty Lounge, adjacent to Room 617. Click on title for abstract.

• Monday January 26, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Xiaoming Zheng, University of Michigan, Mathematical modelings and simulations of tumor growth and angiogenesis

• Wednesday January 28, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Yuliya Gorb, Texas A & M, Discrete network approximation for determining asymptotics of effective properties of high contrast densely packed composites

• Monday February 2, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Xiaofeng Yang, University of North Carolina, Modeling, simulation and analysis of complex fluids

• Wednesday February 4, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Benjamin Seibold, MIT, Benefits and challenges of particle methods

• Monday February 9, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Carina Curto, New York University, Stimulus space topology and geometry from neural activity

• Wednesday February 11, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Nathan Broaddus, University of Chicago, The mapping class group and its Steinberg module

• Monday February 23, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Pablo Pedregal, Universidad de Castilla--La Mancha, A variational approach to ODE and its numerical implementation

• Monday March 2, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Alexander Koldobsky, University of Missouri, Fourier analysis in convex geometry

• Monday March 23, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Jason Behrstock, Lehman College, CUNY, Quasi-isometric classification of 3-manifold groups

• Monday April 6, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Roland Roeder, SUNY Stony Brook, Complex dynamics for the Lee-Yang zeros -- study of a model magnetic material

• Monday April 13, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ileana Streinu, Smith College, Folding Carpenter's Rules, Robot Arms, Proteins: from geometry to combinatorics

• Monday April 27, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Igor Pak, University of Minnesota, Inflating polyhedral surfaces

• Monday May 4, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Tom Lenagan, University of Edinburgh, Totally positive matrices

• Monday September 14, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts, Tiling surfaces, flat metrics and Abel's theorem

• Monday September 21, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Bill Goldman, University of Maryland, Complete affine 3-manifolds and hyperbolic surfaces

• Wednesday September 30, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Stavros Garoufalidis, Georgia Tech, Asymptotics of spin networks

• Monday October 5, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Leonid Berlyand, Penn State, Homogenization in problems with non-separated scales

• Monday October 12, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Sergei Tabachnikov, Penn State, The mysterious Pentagram Map

• Monday October 19, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Jean-Christophe Nave, MIT, Some Challenges in multi-phase flow modelling

• Monday October 26, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Gaoyong Zhang, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Affine sharp Sobolev and isoperimetric inequalities

• Monday November 2, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania, Euler calculus for data

• Monday November 9, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Pak-Wing Fok, University of Delaware, Reconstruction of bond potentials from multiple rupturing time data

• Monday November 23, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania, Optimality of Hopf fibrations and Hopf vector fields

• Monday November 30, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Michael Vogelius, Rutgers University, Nonlinear Neumann problems related to corrosion modeling

• Monday December 7, 2009 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Benjamin Seibold, Temple University, The sound of an evolving floating sculpture. [special end-of-semester talk]