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 23, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Isaac Klapper, Montana State University, Modeling of microbial biofilm communities

• Tuesday February 7, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas, Austin

• Wednesday February 15, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Brian Rider, University of Colorado, Boulder, Continuum limits of random matrices

• Monday February 20, 2012 at 12:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different time- Michael Hitrik, UC Los Angeles, Spectra for non-selfadjoint operators in the semiclassical limit

• Monday February 20, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Katya Krupchyk, Academy of Finland, Inverse boundary value problems with partial data

• Wednesday February 22, 2012 at 12:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Siqi Fu, Rutgers University, Spectral theory of the $\bar\partial$-Neumann Laplacian and applications

• Friday February 24, 2012 at 12:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different date and time- Jean-Marc Schlenker, University of Toulouse, Three-dimensional geometry as a tool for Teichmueller theory

• Monday March 12, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Nicola Garofalo, Purdue University, Generalized curvature-dimension inequalities, Li-Yau inequalities and volume growth in sub-Riemannian geometry

• Monday March 26, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Michael Parks, Sandia National Labs, Computational peridynamics

• Monday April 2, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Philip Gressman, University of Pennsylvania, Geometric Considerations in Harmonic Analysis

• Tuesday April 10, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Andrea Bertozzi , University of California Los Angeles

  There is an extensive applied mathematics literature developed for problems in the biological and physical sciences. Our understanding of social science problems from a mathematical standpoint is less developed, but also presents some very interesting problems. This lecture uses crime as a case study for using applied mathematical techniques in a social science application and covers a variety of mathematical methods that are applicable to such problems. We will review recent work on agent based models, methods in linear and nonlinear partial differential equations, variational methods for inverse problems and statistical point process models. From an application standpoint we will look at problems in residential burglaries and gang crimes. Examples will consider both "bottom up" and "top down" approaches to understanding the mathematics of crime, and how the two approaches could converge to a unifying theory.

• Monday April 23, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Joel David Hamkins, The City University of New York, What happens when one iteratively computes the automorphism group of a group?

• Monday April 30, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Yuri Berest, Cornell University, Derived Representation Varieties and Cyclic Homology

• Monday August 27, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Departmental Meeting and Beginning of Year Reception.

• Monday September 10, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Marius Mitrea, University of Missouri, The Divergence Theorem in Rough Domains and Applications

• Monday September 17, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Dieter Kotschick, University of Munich, Fundamental groups of Kaehler manifolds and combinatorial group theory

• Monday September 24, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Leo Goldmakher, University of Toronto, Character sums, large and small

• Monday October 1, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Esteban Tabak, Courant Institute (NYU), The Diurnal Cycle and the Meridional Extent of the Tropics

• Monday October 8, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Andrei Rapinchuk, University of Virginia, Weakly commensurable groups, with applications to differential geometry

• Monday October 15, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Michael Vogelius, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Electromagnetic Cloaking and Approximate Cloaking

• Monday October 22, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ermanno Lanconelli, Universita di Bologna, An inverse property for evolution equations.

• Monday October 29, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, From factorizations of noncommutative polynomials to combinatorial topology. -The talk is canceled due to the weather conditions-

• Monday November 5, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Yair Minsky, Yale University, Gluing, models and rigidity in hyperbolic geometry

• Monday November 19, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Gilles Francfort, Universite Paris-Nord, Revisiting elasto-plasticity in a variational light

• Monday December 3, 2012 at 16:30, Wachman 617

  Toby Driscoll, University of Delaware, Numerical computing with functions

• Wednesday December 5, 2012 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day- Special Colloquium, Nick Trefethen, Oxford University, Four bugs on a rectangle