Colloquium 2014

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.

• Friday January 17, 2014 at 13:30, Wachman 617

  Braxton Osting, UC Los Angeles, Extremal Eigenvalue Problems in Optics, Geometry, and Data Analysis

• Monday January 27, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Leonid Berlyand, Penn State University, PDE/ODE models of motility in active biosystems

• Wednesday January 29, 2014 at 13:30, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Chelsea Walton, M.I.T., Noncommutative Invariant Theory

• Monday February 3, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Eugene Gorsky, Columbia University, Torus knots and Cherednik algebras

• Thursday February 6, 2014 at 14:00, Wachman 617

  Carina Curto, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, A geometric approach to understanding neural codes in recurrent networks

• Monday February 10, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Vladimir Itskov, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, A topological approach for uncovering hidden structure in neural activity

• Friday February 14, 2014 at 13:30, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Michael Cortez, Georgia Tech, The eco-evolutionary dynamics of predator-prey systems: How does (co)evolution alter community level population dynamics?

• Thursday February 20, 2014 at 14:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Nick Moore, Courant Institute (NYU), Hybrid analytical/numerical models for fluid-structure problems

• Monday March 10, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Michael Lacey, Georgia Tech, The two weight inequality for Hilbert and Cauchy operators on the disk

• Monday March 17, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto, What does it mean to solve KPZ?

• Monday March 24, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Leo Rebholz, Clemson University, Efficient, stable, and accurate finite element discretizations for approximate deconvolution models of turbulent flow

• Monday April 7, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania, Moduli of super Riemann surfaces

• Monday April 14, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Craig Tracy, UC Davis and IAS, The Two-Dimensional Ising Model: Something Old, Something New

• Monday April 21, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Pamela Cook, University of Delaware, Modeling and simulation of the flow of transiently networked (entangled) fluids

• Monday April 28, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Alan Reid, University of Texas Austin, The geometry of canonical curves.

• Monday May 5, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ruth Charney, Brandeis University, Boundaries of spaces of non-positive curvature

• Monday September 15, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Igor Pak, UCLA, Universality theorems in algebra and geometry

• Monday September 22, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Mark Rudelson, University of Michigan, Non-asymptotic approach in random matrix theory

• Monday October 13, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University, Stabilization and selection by noise

• Monday October 20, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Robert Strain, University of Pennsylvania, New continuation criteria for the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell System

• Monday October 27, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Peter Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago, Homology And volume of hyperbolic 3-orbifolds, and enumeration of arithmetic groups

• Monday November 3, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ted Chinburg, University of Pennsylvania, Crypto Capacity Theory

• Monday November 10, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Claire Voisin, Ecole Polytechnique and IAS, Hodge structures, coniveau and algebraic cycles

• Monday November 17, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Victoria Powers, NSF, Representations of Positive Polynomials: Theory, Practice, and Applications

• Monday December 1, 2014 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Gillian Queisser, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Modern techniques in computation-based Neuroscience

• Thursday December 4, 2014 at 14:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different date and time- Qin Li, Caltech, Intrinsic Sparse Mode Decomposition of High Dimensional Random Fields with Application to Stochastic Elliptic PDEs