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.

• Wednesday January 27, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Boris Gershgorin, Courant Institute, Climate response and fluctuation-dissipation theorem.

• Friday January 29, 2010 at 11:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Yekaterina Epshteyn, Carnegie Mellon University, Chemotaxis and numerical methods for chemotaxis models.

• Monday February 1, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Xiao-Chuan Cai, University of Colorado at Boulder, A domain decomposition method for simulation of blood flows in arteries.

• Wednesday February 3, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Pierre Albin, Courant Institute, Ricci flow and the determinant of the Laplacian on non-compact surfaces.

• Monday February 8, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University, Equivalence problem for Bishop surfaces.

• Friday February 12, 2010 at 11:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Vasiliy Dolgushev, University of California, Riverside, Puzzles of deformation theory.

• Monday February 22, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Juan Manfredi, University of Pittsburgh, Modeling tug-of-war games with noise using the p-Laplacian.

• Monday March 1, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Andreas Frommer, University of Wuppertal, Lattice QCD simulations and the matrix sign function.

• Monday March 15, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Rodolfo Ruben Rosales, MIT, Nonlinearity, patterns, and singular behavior.

• Monday March 22, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  James Zhang, University of Washington, Hopf algebra, cohomology and noncommutative algebraic geometry.

• Friday March 26, 2010 at 11:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Jie Gao, Stony Brook University, Greedy routing with guaranteed delivery using Ricci flow.

• Monday March 29, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Rich Schwartz, Brown University, Polygonal outer billiards.

• Monday April 5, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Chandler Davis, University of Toronto, Paper-folding and paper-crinkling.

• Monday April 12, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Daryl Cooper, University of California at Santa Barbara, The story of infinitesimals: a conspiracy of silence?

• Monday April 26, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Susan Sierra, Princeton University, Low-dimensional noncommutative geometry

• Monday September 20, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  : Dave Futer, Temple Unversity, The rental harmony theorem [special pinch-hitting talk].

• Monday October 4, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Afra Zomorodian, Dartmouth College, Topological data analysis

• Monday October 11, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Dylan Thurston, Barnard College, Columbia Unversity, Heegaard Floer homology

• Monday October 18, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Tom DeLillo, Wichita State, The Schwarz-Christoffel transformation for multiply connected domains

• Monday October 25, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Walter Neumann, Columbia Unversity, What does a complex surface really look like?

• Monday November 1, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Daryl Geller, SUNY Stony Brook, Exploring the early universe with wavelets

• Monday November 8, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Peter Hislop, University of Kentucky, Resonances: From quantum mechanics to geometry

• Monday November 15, 2010 at 09:00,

  Ehrenpreis Conference

• Monday November 22, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Pavel Etingof, MIT, Topology of the moduli space of real algebraic curves of genus 0 with n labeled points

• Monday November 29, 2010 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Lev Truskinovsky, Ecole Polytechnique, About the critical nature of plasticity

• Monday December 6, 2010 at 16:00, Tyler B04

  Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton Unversity, Department of Music, The geometry of music [Joint Colloquium Mathematics and Music].