The Department of Mathematics, Temple University, is holding a conference to honor the memory of our colleague and friend Leon Ehrenpreis. The conference will take place November 15 and 16, 2010.

Speakers

• C. Epstein, University of Pennsylvania, Mathematical foundations of population genetics
• J. E. Fornaess,University of Michigan, Foliations by Riemann surfaces
• C. Gutiérrez, Temple University, Geometric optics and Monge-Ampere type equations
• X. Huang, Rutgers University, On Bishop surfaces with a non-degenerate complex tangent point
• H. Iwaniec, Rutgers University, Exotic views on the circle method
• J. J. Kohn, Princeton University, Existence and hypoellipticity with loss of derivatives
• I. Rivin, Temple University, Finding conformal maps between molecules and other stories
• P. Sarnak, Institute for Advanced Study, Sums of 3-squares
• E. Stein, Princeton University, Singular integrals and several complex variables
• F. Treves, Rutgers University, Ehrenpreis and the fundamental principle for constant coefficients PDE

Schedule

The schedule is available here.

Location

• Monday: Shusterman Hall
• Tuesday: Wachman Hall Rm. OG001
• Parking

Banquet Information

The banquet will take place Monday, November 15 at approximately 6:00 pm at the Edward H. Rosen Hillel Center, 1441 Norris Street Philadelphia, PA 19121. The cost will be $40 payable at the door (unless prior arrangements have been made).
If you wish to take part in this activity please send mail to "banquet at math temple edu". We would like to have a sense of how many peple will participate.

Information, all in one

This file (2.2MB) contains a printable schedule and campus map with some pointers.

Sponsors

Sponsored by the Mathematics Department and the College of Science and Technology, Temple University

Photos

Dr. C. J. Mozzochi's photos of the event on Monday are available from his website.

Harmonic Analysis,
Geometric Measure Theory, and
Partial Differential Equations,
and their applications to Several Complex Variables

September 13-15, 2012 
 

Plenary Speakers

• Shiferaw Berhanu, Temple University, Boundary properties of generalized analytic functions
• Siqi Fu, Rutgers University-Camden, Estimates of the invariant metrics and applications
• Phillip Gressman, University of Pennsylvania, Scalar oscillatory integrals on smooth spaces of homogeneous type
• Cristian Gutiérrez, Temple University, Regularity results for the near field parallel beam refractor problem
• Andrew Hicks, Drexel University, The geometry of optical design
• Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University, On the local hull of holomorphy of a real submanifold
• Thomas Krainer, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona, The heat trace, zeta-functions, and resolvent of elliptic operators on conic manifolds
• José María Martell, Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Madrid, Uniform rectifiability and harmonic measure in 1-sided NTA domains
• Gerardo Mendoza, Temple University, Boundary value problems for elliptic operators
• Marius Mitrea, University of Missouri, Square function estimates and applications to PDE's in rough domains
• Hoai-Minh Nguyen, University of Minnesota, Some new characterizations of Sobolev spaces
• Mei-Chi Shaw, University of Notre Dame, The Cauchy-Riemann equations on non-smooth domains

Short Talks

• Matthew Badger, Stony Brook University, Quasispheres and bi-Lipschitz parameterizations
• Jennifer Beichman, University of Michigan, New estimates for 1d dispersive PDE
• Nathan Pennington, Kansas State University, Local and global existence for the Lagrangian Averaged Navier-Stokes equations in Besov spaces
• Jing Wang, Purdue University, The subelliptic heat kernel and its asymptotics on model spaces

Poster Session

• Ryan Alvarado, Whitney-type extensions with control of the modulus of continuity in geometrically doubling quasi-metric spaces
• Tess Anderson, The A₂ conjecture: homogeneous spaces, simple proof
• Dan Brigham, A generalization of the Gromov-Pompeiu-Hausdorff distance and related results
• Davit Harutyunyan, Scaling lows in infinite magnetic wires and films
• Gustavo Hoepfner, Distinguished atomic decompositions in Hardy spaces and applications
• Paulo Liboni, An approximation theorem for CR-distributions in H^p spaces
• Isidro Munive, Volume growth in CR Sasakian manifolds
• Sui-Chnung Ng, Linear subspaces of generalized balls and rigidity of holomorphic mappings
• Ahmad Sabra, Reflector problems with loss of energy
• Eric Stachura, Spectral properties of the reflection operator in two dimensions
• Elia Ziadé, The Open Mapping Theorem in the context of groups endowed with suitable topologies

Schedule...

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Location

• Thursday: Howard Gittis Student Center, Underground
• Friday: Howard Gittis Student Center, 200A
• Saturday: Howard Gittis Student Center, Underground
• Parking

Sponsors

Department of Mathematics and College of Science and Technology, Temple University, and National Science Foundation

Organizer

Irina Mitrea

The Department of Mathematics, Temple University, is holding a conference to honor the memory of our colleague and friend Marvin Knopp. The conference will take place Sunday and Monday, November 11 and 12, 2012.

Marvin Knopp joined the Department of Mathematics at Temple in 1976. Prior to coming to Temple, he held professorships at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Illinois, Chicago. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1958 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, under the direction of Paul T. Bateman. Marvin Isadore Knopp was born on January 4, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois.

Professor Knopp was a leading expert in the theory of modular forms, and he was a pioneering figure in the theory of Eichler cohomology, modular integrals, and generalized modular forms. On several occasions he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and he twice gave invited addresses to meetings of the American Mathematical Society. Marvin Knopp had over 70 publications and was the author of three books, including the foundational "Modular Functions in Analytic Number Theory." In 2007 the International Journal of Number Theory dedicated a volume in his honor. Over the course of his career, Professor Knopp supervised 21 Ph.D. students.

Speakers

• George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University
• Bruce Berndt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• YoungJu Choie, Pohang University of Science and Technology
• Dorian Goldfeld, Columbia University
• Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers University
• Winfried Kohnen, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Geoffrey Mason, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Peter Sarnak, Institute for Advanced Study
• Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University

Schedule & Abstracts

The schedule is here and the abstracts are here.

Location

All talks will take place in Kiva Auditorium (Ritter Hall Annex; 39 on campus map).

Memorial Concert

In addition to the mathematical activities, a late afternoon memorial concert is planned for Sunday, November 11, performed by the Peabody Trio: Seth Knopp, piano; Natasha Brofsky, cello; Violaine Melançon, violin. The concert will take place in the Temple Performing Arts Center. See map for location. (This event is co-sponsored by the Tri-County Concerts Association; Marvin was Vice President of this association from 1996 through 2011.)

Banquet Information

A memorial banquet is planned for Sunday evening, November 11, following the concert. Reservations for the banquet must be received by 3:00 pm Tuesday, November 6.

Place: 3rd Floor, Edward H. Rosen Hillel Center. (Northeast corner of Norris Street and 15th Street.)

Hotel Information

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Philadelphia Center City Doubletree Hotel, for the evening of November 10 through the morning of November 12. The group name is Knopp Memorial Conference. Please make your reservations as soon as possible and no later than October 10. (Subject to availability.)

Parking

Parking will be available in the Liacouras Center Gararage.

Registration

Registration is closed.

Financial Support for Junior Participants

Thanks to the generosity of the Number Theory Foundation, there is limited support available for junior participants. If you fall into this category, please contact Wlad Pribitkin (Wladimir.Pribitkin@csi.cuny.edu.)

Sponsors

Sponsored by the Number Theory Foundation and the Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Technology, Temple University.

Conference organizers

Edward Letzter, Wladimir Pribitkin, Geoffrey Mason

This is the third meeting of the annual Gone Fishing event in North America for people interested in Poisson geometry to meet and discuss new ideas and results. It will be held on Sept. 28-29, 2013 at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Confirmed Speakers

• Panagiotis Batakidis, Penn State University
• Calder Daenzer, Penn State University
• Samuel Evens, University of Notre Dame
• Yael Fregier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Songhao Li, Washington University in St. Louis
• Ioan Marcut, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Rajan Mehta, Smith College
• Claudio Meneses-Torres, Stony Brook University
• Brian Paljug, Temple University
• Jim Stasheff, UNC at Chapel Hill and the University of Pennsylvania
• Mathieu Stienon, Penn State University
• Xiang Tang, Washington University in St. Louis
• Aissa Wade, Penn State University
• Jordan Watts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Ping Xu, Penn State University
• Milen Yakimov, Louisiana State University

Schedule of Talks

The schedule of talks is here.

Location

All talks will take place in Wachman Hall Rm. 617 (62 on campus map).

Hotel Information

Participants should make their own arrangements directly with the hotel of their choice. Here is a list of recommended hotels (A preferred vendor rate is available at Club Quarters and the Doubletree. Please, mention that you are "Temple University" guests to get this rate):

• Club Quarters, 1628 Chestnut St (at 17th St), Philadelphia, PA, 19103, (215) 282-5000;
• Doubletree by Hilton Philadelphia Center City, 237 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107, (215) 893-1600;
• The Hampton Inn Center City Philadelphia Hotel, 1301 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA, (215) 665-9100;
• The Conwell Inn, 1331 Polett Walk, Philadelphia, PA, (215)235-6200.

Sponsors

Sponsored by the Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Technology, Temple University and by the NSF. Financial support from the NSF is available to cover or partially cover the travel and local expenses of some conference participants, with priority given to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. To request support, please, send an e-mail to Rui Loja Fernandes ruiloja-AT-illinois.edu.

Workshop organizers

Vasily Dolgushev (local organizer), Rui Loja Fernandes, Eugene Lerman

Scientific Committee

Xiang Tang, Alan Weinstein, and Ping Xu

Previous workshops in this series

• Gone Fishing 2011 at Washington University in St. Louis
• Gone Fishing 2012 at the University of California at Los Angeles

February 26, 2016

Schedule of Talks

Morning (background) lectures will take place in Wachman 527. Afternoon lectures will take place in Wachman 617.

• 10:00 AM: Josh Greene, Boston College, Alternating links and the Tait conjectures.
• 11:30 AM: Lenny Ng, Duke University, Using cotangent bundles and symplectic geometry to define knot invariants. 
   
• 12:30 PM: Lunch. 
   
• 3:00 PM: Lenny Ng, Duke University, Knot contact homology and string topology.
• 4:30 PM: Josh Greene, Boston College, Alternating links and definite surfaces.

Abstracts

Josh Greene, Alternating links and the Tait conjectures 

 

ABSTRACT: I will present some background on the classical Tait conjectures for alternating links. 
 

Josh Greene, Alternating links and definite surfaces 

 

ABSTRACT: I will describe a characterization of alternating links in terms intrinsic to the link exterior and use it to derive some properties of these links, including algorithmic detection and new proofs of some of Tait's conjectures. 
 

Lenny Ng, Using cotangent bundles and symplectic geometry to define knot invariants 

 

ABSTRACT: Symplectic geometry has recently emerged as a key tool in the study of low-dimensional topology. One approach, championed by Arnol'd, is to examine the topology of a smooth manifold through the symplectic geometry of its cotangent bundle, building on the familiar concept of phase space from classical mechanics. I'll describe a way to use this approach, combined with the modern theory of Legendrian contact homology (which I'll also introduce), to construct a rather powerful invariant of knots called "knot contact homology". 
 

Lenny Ng, Knot contact homology and string topology 

 

ABSTRACT: Although knot contact homology has its origins in symplectic geometry and holomorphic curves, it has a surprising relation to a more classical knot invariant, the fundamental group of the knot complement. I'll discuss how one can use string topology to make this relation a bit less surprising (in joint work with Kai Cieliebak, Tobias Ekholm, and Janko Latschev), and apply this to show that knot contact homology characterizes various types of knots. 
 

Full schedule for PATCH and Temple Geometry-Topology seminar

Sponsors

• Bryn Mawr College
• Haverford College
• Temple University
• University of Pennsylvania
• National Science Foundation

A Conference in Honor of

Ellen Kirkman (Wake Forest University) and Martin Lorenz (Temple University)

July 24-28, 2017 at Temple University

A Conference in Honor of Gerardo Mendoza

February 26-27, 2021 
 

Conference Registration

To register for the event please click here. 


 

Plenary Speakers

• Pierre Albin, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, The sub-Riemannian limit of a contact manifold
• Paulo Cordaro, University of Sao Paulo, The Borel map and the algebra of smooth solutions in locally integrable structures
• Siqi Fu, Rutgers University-Camden, Spectral Stability of the Complex Laplacians
• Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University, Complex geodesics and complex Monge-Ampere equations with boundary singularities
• Howard Jacobowitz, Rutgers University-Camden, A Non-Hausdorff Space of Equivalency Classes
• Thomas Krainer, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, On Indicial Operators
• Ursula Ludwig, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Duality between Witten complex and Morse-Bott complex for singular spaces
• Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University, ALG spaces and the Hitchin equations
• Richard Melrose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Compactification of Lie groups
• Francine Meylan, University of Fribourg, The 2-jet Determination Chern-Moser Theorem in Higher Codimension: a new phenomenon
• Alberto Parmeggiani, University of Bologna, On sums of squares of complex vector fields
• Elmar Schrohe, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, The Calderón Projector for Fibred Cusp Operators
• Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington, 40 Years of Calderón's Inverse Problem

Schedule...

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Conference Poster

Click here for the conference poster. 
 

Location

• Friday: Zoom
• Saturday: Zoom

Sponsors

Department of Mathematics and College of Science and Technology, Temple University.

Organizers

Shiferaw Berhanu and Irina Mitrea

April 11-12, 2014 
 

Mini-Course Presenters

• Matthew Badger, Stony Brook University, Introduction to the Geometry of Sets and Measures
• Gustavo Hoepfner, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Hardy Spaces: Classical, Extensions and Applications

Talks

• Ryan Alvarado, University of Missouri, The Dirichlet Problem with Data in Hardy Spaces for Elliptic Systems in the Upper-Half Space
• Kevin Brewster, University of Missouri, Extension Operators for Weighted Sobolev Spaces in Lipschitz Domains
• Daniel Brigham, University of Missouri, Existence of Optimal Quasi-Metrics and Consequences for Hardy Spaces
• Paulo Liboni, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, A Mean Value Theorem for Metric Spaces
• Nsoki Mavinga, Swarthmore College, Bifurcation and Multiplicity for Elliptic Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions
• Jessica Merhej, University of Washington, On the Regularity of Rectifiable n-Varifolds in the Critical Dimension n
• Camelia Pop, University of Pennsylvania, Smoothness of Solutions and Harnack Inequality for Kimura Diffusion Operators
• Ahmad Sabra, Temple University, The Reflector Problem and the Inverse-Square Law
• Brock Schmutzler, University of Missouri, Boundary Value Problems for the Stokes System on Rough Subdomains of Riemannian Manifolds

Poster Session

• Hussein Awala, Temple University, The Mixed Problem for the Laplacian in Polygonal Domains
• Isaac Harris, University of Delaware, Transmission Eigenvalues and Non-destructive Testing of Anisotropic Magnetic Materials with Voids
• Shixu Meng, University of Delaware, The Factorization Method for a Cavity in an Inhomogeneous Medium
• Luca Pallucchini, Temple University, On embedding in R^n of Analytic Riemannian Manifolds
• Scott Rome, Drexel University, Asymptotic Expansions for the Transmission Eigenvalues of a Scatterer with Small Inhomogeneities
• Eric Stachura, Temple University, The Near Field Refractor Problem with Loss of Energy

Schedule...

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Location

• Friday: Wachman Hall 617
• Saturday: Wachman Hall 617
• Directions to TU Math
• Parking

Sponsors

Department of Mathematics and College of Science and Technology, Temple University, and National Science Foundation

Organizers

Irina Mitrea and Elia Ziade;

The converence took place March 24-26, 2022. For detailed information please click here.

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Exploding Dots Workshop

You can download the workshop presentation by clicking here. It may also be helpful to reference the Exploding Dots website here. There are two worksheets that accompany this workshop: Activity 1, Activity 2.

Graph Theory Workshop

You can download the workshop presentation by clicking here. This workshop has one activity, Graph Theory Activity (with the Answer Key).