Colloquium

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 24, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University, Graph coloring and symmetric functions

• Monday January 31, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ser Peow Tan, National University of Singapore, Generalized Markoff maps and McShane's identity

• Monday February 7, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Dorian Goldfeld, Columbia University, Counting primes, groups, and manifolds

• Monday February 21, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Joseph Kohn, Princeton University, Hypoellipticity and loss of derivatives

• Monday March 14, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Peter Fleischmann, University of Kent at Canterbury, Algorithmic and structural aspects of modular invariant rings

• Monday March 21, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Tom Zaslavsky, SUNY Binghamton, The Associative Law in Multary Quasigroups

• Wednesday March 23, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day- Todd Drumm, University of Pennsylvania, Lorentzian isospectrality

• Wednesday April 6, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day- Minerva Catral, University of Connecticut, Group inverses and mean first passage matrices in finite ergodic Markov chains

• Monday April 11, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ricardo Diaz, University of Northern Colorado, Baseball seam geometry: Can you hear the shape of a periodic spherical curve?

• Monday April 25, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Robert Seeley, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Zeta functions, heat kernels, and resolvents for elliptic operators

• Friday April 29, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day- Richard Schwartz, University of Maryland, Irrational triangular billiards

• Monday May 2, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Mihai Ciucu, Georgia Tech University, A random tiling model for two dimensional electrostatics

• Monday September 19, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Winfried Kohnen, University of Heidelberg, Germany, On the number of representations of integers by positive definite quadratic forms

• Monday September 26, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Angela Gibney, University of Pennsylvania, What is a moduli space and why do algebraic geometers love them?

• Monday October 10, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Frauke Bleher, University of Iowa, Group actions on homogeneous quotients of polynomial rings

• Monday October 17, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California, Generation of finite groups

• Monday October 24, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Walter Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University, Hilbert's 3rd problem and invariants of 3-manifolds

• Monday October 31, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Fritz Grunewald, University of Duesseldorf, Germany, Zeta functions of groups and rings

• Monday November 7, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ted Chinburg, University of Pennsylvania, Group representations, deformations and class numbers

• Monday November 14, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, Agder University College, Norway, Emigration of German-speaking mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era

• Monday November 21, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Paul Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Genericity and randomness in geometric group theory

• Monday November 28, 2005 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Victor Moll, Tulane University, Rational Landen transformations

• Monday December 5, 2005 at 16:00, Wachmna 617

  Victor Moll, Tulane University, Rational Landen transformations