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 22, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Carlos Berenstein, University of Maryland, Tomography, how to go from the continuous to the discrete

• Monday January 29, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Alexandre Kirillov, University of Pennsylvania, A tale of two fractals (a small book for toddler mathematicians)

• Monday February 5, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Sinai Robins, Temple University, Polyhedral theta functions, polyhedral Gauss sums, and extensions of the Gram relations for solid angles of polytopes

• Monday February 19, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Zoltan I. Szabo, Lehman College, CUNY, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Isospectral metrics on balls, spheres, and other manifolds with different local geometries

• Monday March 12, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ales Drapal, Charles University, Prague, Conjugacy closedness and multilinear mappings

• Monday March 19, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Donald Passman, University of Wisconsin, Group algebras

• Monday April 2, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Lucien Szpiro, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Discriminants and conductors

• Monday April 9, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College, The life and legacy of Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871)

• Monday April 16, 2007 at STARTTIME, Wachman 617

  Euler Symposium

• Monday April 23, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Florian Pop, University of Pennsylvania, Sums of squares and beyond

• Monday April 30, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Guozhen Lu, Wayne State University, On sharp constants and extremals for Moser-Trudinger inequalities in Euclidean and CR settings

• Monday September 17, 2007 at 16:00, Wachmna 617

  Robert V. Kohn, Courant Institute, New York University, Parabolic PDE's and deterministic games

• Monday October 1, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University, Poncelet Grid and the Billiard in an Ellipse

• Monday October 15, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University, Poncelet Grid and the Billiard in an Ellipse

• Monday October 22, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Peter Storm, University of Pennsylvania, Hyperbolic Reflection Groups

• Monday October 29, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Jeffrey Saltzman, Merck, Modeling HCV Antivirals

• Monday November 5, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  David Saltman, CCR-Princeton, Division Algebras over Surfaces

• Monday November 19, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Daniel Krashen, University of Pennsylvania, Quadratic Forms and the u-invariant of Fields

• Monday November 26, 2007 at 16:00, Wachamn 617

  Paul Pasles, Villanova University, Benjamin Franklin's Numbers

• Monday December 3, 2007 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Pedro Ponte-Castaneda, University of Pennsylvania, Nonlinear Homogenization