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 F2021-S2022 F2022-S2023 

  • High order positivity-preserving entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin discretizations

    Speaker: Jesse Chan (Rice University) - https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/jesse-chan

    When: Tue, September 12, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=b2682da3-4e16-451e-93d2-b08501795c20&start=450
  • Fast and Accurate Boundary Integral Methods for Two-Phase Flow with Surfactant

    Speaker: Michael Siegel (New Jersey Institute of Technology) - https://people.njit.edu/faculty/misieg

    When: Tue, September 26, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=94e6c1a5-c63b-494c-88ea-b089017d03d0
  • A Low Rank Tensor Approach for Nonlinear Vlasov Simulations

    Speaker: Jingmei Qiu (University of Delaware) - https://jingmeiqiu.github.io/

    When: Tue, October 3, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=eb06dce2-9eeb-4f6f-baf2-b0930115f592
  • Riemannian optimization and Riemannian Langevin Monte Carlo for PSD fixed rank constraints

    Speaker: Xiangxiong Zhang (Purdue University) - https://www.math.purdue.edu/~zhan1966/

    When: Tue, October 10, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ed687d23-01aa-43b9-99fa-b09b009076b6
  • Hydrodynamics of Liquid Crystals on Curved Thin Films: Modeling and Numerics

    Speaker: Lucas Bouck (Carnegie Mellon University) - https://lbouck.github.io/

    When: Tue, October 17, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=76bd642a-c58d-42aa-9a61-b0a601108db9
  • Dynamical low-rank methods for high-dimensional collisional kinetic equations

    Speaker: Jingwei Hu (University of Washington) - https://jingweihu-math.github.io/webpage/

    When: Tue, October 24, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=434a41d5-a296-4b51-a454-b0a601108db8
  • Numerical methods for hydrodynamics at small scales

    Speaker: Sean Carney (George Mason University ) - https://math.gmu.edu/~scarney6/

    When: Tue, October 31, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e4f592ef-ae46-4bb6-ad3c-b0c30155d802
  • Low-rank PINNs for model reduction of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws

    Speaker: Donsub Rim (Washington University in St. Louis) - https://dsrim.github.io/

    When: Tue, November 7, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1e3026f5-d13e-4e64-8aa5-b0c30155d807
  • Optimization on Matrix Manifolds, with Applications in Data Science

    Speaker: Pierre-Antoine Absil (University of Louvain) - https://sites.uclouvain.be/absil/

    When: Tue, November 14, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Jaywalking at the Intersection of Machine Learning and Interesting Math

    Speaker: Michael Puthawala (South Dakota State University) - https://www.sdstate.edu/directory/michael-puthawala

    When: Tue, November 21, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c3071a68-22fa-4e5c-b86d-b0c30155d802
  • Towards efficient deep operator learning for forward and inverse PDEs: theory and algorithms

    Speaker: Ke Chen (University of Maryland College Park) - https://math.umd.edu/~kechen/

    When: Tue, November 28, 2023 - 4:30pm
    Where: Brin Math Center Colloquium Room
  • The Obstacle Problem: Pointwise Adaptive Finite Element Method and Optimal Control

    Speaker: Rohit Khandelwal (George Mason University) - https://rohitedu.github.io/

    When: Tue, December 5, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Waveform Inversion via Reduced Order Modeling

    Speaker: Liliana Borcea (University of Michigan) - https://websites.umich.edu/~borcea/

    When: Tue, January 30, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d13c17ba-7eaf-42a5-80ac-b12a013c35ee
  • Error control in a diffusion map-based PDE solver

    Speaker: Maria Cameron (University of Maryland) - https://www.math.umd.edu/~mariakc/

    When: Tue, February 6, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=47566412-eba1-4592-9459-b12a013c35d5
  • Coarsening and mean field control of volatile droplets

    Speaker: Hangjie Ji (North Carolina State University) - https://hji5.math.ncsu.edu/

    When: Tue, February 13, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Nonlinear scientific computing in machine learning and applications

    Speaker: Wenrui Hao (Pennsylvania State University) - https://sites.psu.edu/whao/

    When: Tue, February 20, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a2bf1a52-28f2-4724-8579-b12a013c35d5
  • Quantum algorithms for linear differential equations

    Speaker: Dong An (University of Maryland College Park) - https://dong-an.github.io/

    When: Tue, February 27, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Video: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=5597b928-6293-43f2-b864-b12a013c35f0
  • Data-adaptive RKHS regularization for learning kernels in operators

    Speaker: Fei Lu (Johns Hopkins University) - https://math.jhu.edu/~feilu/

    When: Tue, March 5, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Approximation of differential operators on unknown manifolds and applications

    Speaker: John Harlim (Pennsylvania State University) - https://jharlim.github.io/myhomepage/

    When: Tue, March 12, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Numerically stable methods for electromagnetic scattering in layered media

    Speaker: Mike O'Neil (New York University) - https://cims.nyu.edu/~oneil/

    When: Tue, March 26, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Differentiable physics for turbulence closure modeling from data

    Speaker: Romit Maulik (Pennsylvania State University) - https://romit-maulik.github.io/

    When: Tue, April 2, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • An effective discretization scheme for singular integral operators on surfaces

    Speaker: James Bremer (University of Toronto) - https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~bremer/

    When: Tue, April 9, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • A Domain Decomposition Method for Solution of a PDE-Constrained Generalized Nash Equilibrium Model of Biofilm Community Metabolism

    Speaker: Daniel B. Szyld (Temple University) - https://www.math.temple.edu/~szyld/

    When: Tue, April 16, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: AVW 1146 (ISR)
  • Solution of Forward and Inverse Problems for Extreme-Scale 1-km-Resolution Earth Mantle Models

    Speaker: Johann Rudi (Virginia Tech) - https://math.vt.edu/people/faculty/rudi-johann.html

    When: Tue, April 23, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • An exact and efficient algorithm for Basis Pursuit Denoising via differential inclusions

    Speaker: Gabriel Provencher Langlois (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU) - https://gabrielpl.com/

    When: Tue, April 30, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206