Location: Math 3206
Day: Wednesday (with occasional talks Friday)
Time: 3:15pm
Tea: 2:45pm in 3201
Organizers: Giovanni Forni, Harry Tamvakis, Konstantina Trivisa

2011 - 2012 Colloquium Schedule

Sept 14

Wonderful compactifications of groups as moduli spaces of principal bundles
Michael Thaddeus (Columbia University),

Sept 28

An introduction to essential dimension
Patrick Brosnan(University of Maryland),

Oct 21

Rigidity of group actions, cohomology and compactness
David Fisher (Indiana University, Bloomington),

Oct 28

A Filtration of Open/Closed Topological Field Theory
Ezra Getzler (Northwestern University),

Nov 2

Rational billiards and the SL(2,R) action on moduli space
Alex Eskin (University of Chicago),

Nov 9

Why and how do we use wavelets to study turbulence?
Marie Farge(Directrice de Recherche CNRS)

Nov 16

Mixed volume computation and solving polynomial systems
Tien-Yien Li (Michigan State University),

Dec 2

Optimal and Practical Algebraic Solvers for Discretized PDEs - Aziz Lecture
Jinchao Xu (Pennsylvania State University),

Dec 7

DMS to THRIVE
Sastry G. Pantula(National Science Foundation)

Feb 8

On the rigidity of black holes - Douglis Lecture
Sergiu Klainerman(Princeton University )

Feb 17

Product formulas for positive measures and applications - February Fourier Talks
Peter Jones(Yale University),

Feb 22

Semismooth Newton Methods: Theory, Numerics and Applications - Aziz Lecture
Michael Hintermüller (Humboldt University, Berlin),

Feb 29

On the size of the Navier - Stokes singular set
Walter Craig (McMaster University),

Mar 14

De Giorgi methods applied to regularity issues in Fluid Mechanics
Alexis Vasseur (UT Austin )

Mar 30

Birkhoff Normal Form and a problem of Herman - Dynamics Conference
Hakan Eliasson (University of Paris-6 and IAS),

Apr 25

Lyapunov Functions: Towards an Aubry-Mather theory for homeomorphisms?
Albert Fathi (ENS-Lyon),

May 2

Contractions of Lie Groups and Representation Theory
Nigel Higson (Penn State University), cancelled

May 9

The Pfaffian-Grassmannian Derived Equivalence
Andrei Caldărăru (University of Wisconsin, Madison),