Colloquium 2015

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 12, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Brian Camley, UC San Diego, Complex cell motility: periodic crawling, collective rotation, and persistence

• Thursday January 15, 2015 at 15:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Jay Newby, Ohio State University, Stochastic modeling of cellular processes

• Tuesday January 20, 2015 at 14:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Xianyi Zeng, Duke University, A Variational Multiscale Finite Element Method for Solid Mechanics and Fluid-Structure Interactions

• Thursday January 22, 2015 at 15:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Ivan Christov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Low Reynolds number flows through shaped and deformable conduits.

• Monday February 16, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Joseph Kohn, Princeton University, Analysis on CR manifolds

• Monday March 16, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ivan Corwin, Columbia University, Beyond the Gaussian universality class

• Monday March 23, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Govind Menon, Brown University, Building polyhedra by self-assembly

• Monday April 6, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Bruce Kleiner, New York University, Mean curvature flow

• Monday April 13, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Amanda Folsom, Amherst College, Mock modular and quantum modular forms

• Monday April 27, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Alex Kontorovich, Rutgers University, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Thin Groups

• Monday August 31, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Pierre Albin, University of Illinois, Extending the Cheeger-Mueller theorem through degeneration

• Monday September 14, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Artem Zvavitch, University of Pennsylvania, On Mahler conjecture for convex bodies

• Monday October 5, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Greta Panova, University of Pennsylvania, Lattice models and symmetric functions

• Monday October 19, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Francisco Javier Sayas, University of Delaware, A guided tour of retarded potentials, from analysis to simulation

• Monday October 26, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ridgway Scott, University of Chicago, Dipolar materials

• Monday November 2, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Barbara Keyfitz, The Ohio State University, Linear and Nonlinear Waves in Gas Dynamics

• Monday November 9, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Marsha Berger, New York University, Solving PDEs in complicated geometries

• Monday November 16, 2015 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Abigail Thompson, UC Davis, In search of optimal knots