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 23, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day- R. Inanc Baykur, Max Planck Institute and Brandeis University, Exotica in dimension four

• Monday January 28, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Matthew Stover, University of Michigan, Ends of hyperbolic manifolds

• Monday February 4, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Jayadev Athreya, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Equidistribution and Counting for Polygonal Billiards

• Monday February 18, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Aaron Fogelson, University of Utah, Mathematical Exploration of the Interplay of Flow, Structure, and Chemistry in Blood Clotting and Other Biological Processes

• Monday February 25, 2013 at 16:00, Wachamn 617

  Victor Moll, Tulane University, The Zagier polynomials

• Monday March 4, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Robert Guralnick, University of Southern Californa, Strongly Dense Subgroups of Algebraic Groups

• Monday March 18, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Daniela Calvetti, Case Western Reserve University, Bayesian preconditioning for truncated Krylov subspace regularization with an application to Magnetoencephalography

• Monday April 1, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Qiang Du, The Pennsylvania State University How to search for transition states/saddle points?

• Monday April 8, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, New developments in homological stability and FI-modules

• Monday April 15, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Michael Overton, New York University, Optimization of Polynomial Roots, Eigenvalues and Pseudospectra

• Monday April 22, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, The Noncommutative Laurent phenomenon

• Monday April 29, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Lee Mosher, Rutgers University, Newark, Subgroups of Out(F_n) and their geometry

• Monday May 6, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Hongjie Dong, Brown University, Elliptic and parabolic equations in convex polytopes with discontinuous coefficients

• Monday September 16, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  John Perdew, Temple University, Department of Physics, Climbing the Ladder of Density Functional Approximations

• Monday September 30, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Thang Le, Georgia Tech, The Quantum MacMahon Master Theorem

• Monday October 7, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Allan Greenleaf, University of Rochester, Erdos-Falconer configuration problems and multilinear operators

• Monday October 21, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Eugene Gorsky, Columbia University, Khovanov homology and torus knots

• Monday October 28, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Jessica S. Purcell, Brigham Young University, Cusp Volumes of Alternating Knots

• Monday November 4, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Richard Wentworth, University of Maryland, The Yang-Mills flow on Kaehler manifolds

• Monday November 18, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Special Colloquium: Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University, Variational Methods in Materials and Image Processing

• Monday December 2, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Aaron Lauda, University of Southern California, An introduction to diagrammatic categorification