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 

  • Predictive Science and Deep Learning - A Bright Future or an Odd Couple?

    Speaker: Wolfgang Dahmen (Aachen, University of South Carolina) - https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/mathematics/our_people/directory/dahmen_wolfgang.php

    When: Wed, September 20, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • The optimal paper Moebius band

    Speaker: Richard Schwartz (Brown University) - https://www.math.brown.edu/reschwar/

    When: Fri, September 29, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Riehl (TBA)

    Speaker: Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University) - https://math.jhu.edu/~eriehl/

    When: Fri, October 6, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Categorification and geometry

    Speaker: Lars Hesselholt (Nagoya University) - https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~larsh/

    When: Fri, October 13, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Mathematics Around the Heisenberg Group

    Speaker: Roger Howe (Yale University) - https://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/fft/2023/Speakers/Roger_Howe.html

    When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 3:45pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Decoding Time's Mysteries for Better Predictions

    Speaker: James Howard (Johns Hopkins University) - https://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/fft/2023/Speakers/James_Howard.html

    When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 6:45pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • A tale of two invariants

    Speaker: Paul Feehan (Rutgers) - https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~feehan/

    When: Wed, November 15, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Using logic to study homeomorphism groups

    Speaker: Thomas Koberda (University of Virginia) - https://sites.google.com/view/koberdat

    When: Wed, November 29, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Generative Models for Implicit Distribution Estimation: a Statistical Perspective

    Speaker: Yun Yang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - https://sites.google.com/site/yunyangstat/

    When: Thu, January 25, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Video Imputation and Prediction Methods with Applications in Space Weather

    Speaker: Yang Chen (University of Michigan) - https://yangchenfunstatistics.github.io/yangchen.github.io/

    When: Tue, January 30, 2024 - 4:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Arboreal Galois groups: an introduction

    Speaker: Robert Benedetto (Amherst College) - https://rlbenedetto.people.amherst.edu/

    When: Wed, February 7, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Higher theta series

    Speaker: Zhiwei Yun (MIT) - https://math.mit.edu/~zyun/

    When: Wed, February 28, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Random lattices and their applications in number theory, geometry and statistical mechanics

    Speaker: Jens Marklof (School of Mathematics, University of Bristol) - https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Jens-Marklof-6eb63e14-a018-4833-9cf8-b95272b5a09e/

    When: Fri, March 1, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Svetlana Jitomirskaya (University of California, Berkeley) - https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/svetlana-jitomirskaya

    When: Thu, March 14, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Instantaneous everywhere-blowup of parabolic stochastic PDEs

    Speaker: Davar Khoshnevisan (University of Utah) - http://www.math.utah.edu/~davar/

    When: Wed, April 3, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206