Mathematics Colloquium 2011

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),

Archives: F2011-S2012 F2012-S2013 F2013-S2014 F2014-S2015 F2015-S2016 F2016-S2017 F2017-S2018 F2018-S2019 F2019-S2020 F2020-S2021 F2021-S2022 F2022-S2023 

  • Recent progress on mathematical wave turbulence

    Speaker: Yu Deng (USC) https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/yudeng/

    When: Thu, September 7, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall MTH1311
  • Invasion: robustness and universality

    Speaker: Cole Graham (Brown University) https://colegraham.net/

    When: Thu, September 14, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: EGR3102
  • Formation of shocks for the Einstein-Euler system

    Speaker: John Anderson (Stanford) https://web.stanford.edu/~jrlander/

    When: Thu, September 21, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Dynamics of kink clusters for scalar fields in dimension 1+1

    Speaker: Andrew Lawrie (MIT) https://math.mit.edu/~alawrie/

    When: Thu, September 28, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Effects of Network Structure on Spreading of Innovations

    Speaker: Gadi Fibich http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~fibich/

    When: Thu, October 5, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Convergence rates to traveling waves

    Speaker: Lenya Ryzhik  http://math.stanford.edu/~ryzhik/

    When: Thu, October 12, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • The nonlinear theory of sound

    Speaker: Robin Yong (UMass Amherst)

    When: Thu, October 19, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Regularity of Bubbles in Porous Media

    Speaker: Neel Patel 

    When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Parabolic equations and diffusion processes with degeneration: boundary problems, metastability, and homogenization

    Speaker: Leonid Koralov (UMD)

    When: Thu, November 2, 2023 - 3:15am
    Where: MTH1311
  • To Flutter or Not: Mathematical Aeroelasticity

    Speaker: Justin Webster (UMBC) http://webster.math.umbc.edu/ 

    When: Thu, November 16, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Nonlocal Boundary Value Problems with Local Boundary Conditions

    Speaker: James Scott (Columbia) https://sites.google.com/view/jamesmichaelscott/home

    When: Thu, November 30, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where:
  • Matrix generalization of the cubic SzegÅ‘ equation

    Speaker: Ruoci Sun https://sites.google.com/view/sun-ruoci/home

    When: Thu, February 8, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Nearly self-similar blowup of the slightly perturbed homogeneous Landau equation with very soft potentials

    Speaker: Jiajie Chen (Courant) https://jiajiechen94.github.io/ 

    When: Thu, February 22, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • One example of Residual Diffusivity

    Speaker: Gautam Iyer https://www.math.cmu.edu/~gautam/sj/index.html

    When: Thu, April 4, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Global regularity for critical SQG in bounded domains

    Speaker: Peter Constantin https://web.math.princeton.edu/~const/

    When: Thu, April 18, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH3206
  • Where does friction come from? Hamiltonian systems for classical and quantum particles

    Speaker: Thierry Goudon  (INRIA, France)

    When: Thu, May 2, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Local well-posedness and smoothing of MMT kinetic wave equation

    Speaker: Joonhyn La (KIAS, Korea)

    When: Thu, May 9, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311