Colloquium 2006

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, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Karl Mahlburg, University of Wisconsin, The Andrews-Garvan-Dyson crank and partition congruences

• Monday January 30, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Alexander Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem & IAS, Counting representations of arithmetic groups

• Wednesday February 1, 2006 at 15:30, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Lenny Fukshansky, Texas A&M, The Frobenius problem and the covering radius of a lattice

• Monday February 6, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Lisa Fauci, Tulane University, Spirochetes and spermatozoa: Fluid dynamic models of microorganism motility

• Monday February 13, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Dror Varolin, SUNY-Stony Brook, Complex analytic methods in the study of algebraic functions

• Monday March 13, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Fritz Grunewald, University of Duesseldorf & IAS, Engel conditions, a problem of Plotkin and etale cohomology

• Wednesday March 15, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  -Note different day and time- Christopher Hanusa, SUNY Binghamton, Let's Count: Enumeration through matrix methods

• Monday March 20, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Uzi Vishne, Bar-Ilan University & IAS, Isospectral manifolds and Cayley graphs

• Monday March 27, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Gilbert Strang, MIT, Maximum area with new measures of perimeter

• Monday April 3, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Juan Manfredi, University of Pittsburg, Quasilinear elliptic equations in the Heisenberg group

• Monday April 10, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ching-Li Chai, University of Pennsylvania, Hecke symmetries on moduli spaces

• Monday April 17, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Joseph Dauben, CUNY, Suan Shu Shu (A Book on Numbers and Computations): Five Problems from the Most Ancient Yet-Known Mathematical Text from Ancient China

• Monday April 24, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Peter Symonds, University of Manchester, Group actions on polynomial rings

• Monday May 1, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Jorg Liesen, Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany, On optimal short-term recurrences for generating orthogonal Krylov subspace bases

• Monday September 11, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania, Galois groups and geometry

• Monday September 25, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Friedrich Knop, Rutgers University, Construction of tensor categories

• Monday October 9, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Shlomi Gelaki, Technion, Haifa, Fusion categories with applications to semisimple Hopf algebras

• Monday October 16, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Gustavo Corach, Argentinian Mathematical Institute, Buenos Aires, Projections and sampling formulas in Hilbert spaces

• Monday October 23, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  William Gasarch, University of Maryland, The polynomial van der Waerden theorem

• Monday October 30, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  John Dawson, Pennsylvania State University, Kurt Goedel: a centennial survey of his life and work

• Monday November 13, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Ermanno Lanconelli, University of Bologna, Liouville theorems for real sub-Laplacians on stratified Lie groups. Some applications to gauge functions, Eikonal equations and Bocher's theorems

• Monday November 20, 2006 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  David Alan Grier, George Washington University Human computers and the emergence of the American applied mathematics community