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The Departmental Colloquium, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, meets weekly on Thursdays from 3:35--4:30 pm in Vincent Hall 16. Refreshments are served from 3:10 pm in Vincent Hall 120. Bob Gulliver was the Chair of the Departmental Colloquium for the Fall semester, 2011. Adrian Diaconu is the Chair for Spring Semester, 2012. Please contact him (cad@math.umn.edu, tel. 5-0582) if you have a good candidate for a colloquium speaker. |
| Date: Mo/Day/Year | Colloquium Speaker | Title | Local Host |
| 01/19/12 |
Robert Lipshitz (Columbia University) |
What is Khovanov the homology of? | Tianjun Li |
| 01/26/12 | Lan-Hsuan Huang (Columbia University) |
Positive mass theorems and scalar curvature problems | Jiaping Wang |
| 02/02/12 | Luca Rondi (University of Trieste) |
Inverse problems and free-discontinuity problems | Daniel Spirn |
| 02/09/12 | Ben Brubaker (MIT) |
Whittaker coefficients of Eisenstein series | Adrian Diaconu |
| 02/16/12 | Will not meet |
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| 02/23/12 | Yves Andre (Ecole Normale Superieure) |
Arithmetic Gevrey series: an arithmetic look at asymptotic analysis and special functions | Bill Messing |
| 03/01/12 | Svitlana Mayboroda (Univ. of Minnesota) |
Elliptic PDEs, analysis, and potential theory in irregular media | Mikhail Safonov |
| 03/08/12 | Holger Rauhut (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, Bonn) |
Structured random matrices in compressive sensing | Gilad Lerman |
| 03/22/12 | Will not meet |
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| 03/27/12 | Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton University) |
Introduction to the Problem of Evolution in General Relativity | Markus Keel |
| 03/29/12 Special Colloquium | Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton University) |
Parametrices for Solutions of Wave Equations on a Rough, Curved Background Spacetime | Markus Keel |
| 04/05/12 | Jasmine Foo (Univ. of Minnesota) |
Evolutionary dynamics of cancer | Hans Othmer |
| 04/12/12 | Robert MacKay (University of Warwick) |
The mathematics of emergence | Arnd Scheel |
| 04/19/12 | Mikio Furuta (University of Tokyo) |
A real version of the Seiberg-Witten theory | Tian-Jun Li |
| 04/26/12 | Antonio Cordoba
(Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) |
Encounters at the interface between Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory | Carme Calderer |
| 05/01/12 Special Colloquium | Camil Muscalu (Cornell University) |
Iterated Fourier series and physical reality | Markus Keel |
| 05/03/12 | Daryl Cooper (UC Santa Barbara) |
The story on infinitesimals: a conspiracy of silence? | Albert Marden |
| Date: Mo/Day/Year | Colloquium Speaker | Title | Local Host |
| 09/15/11 | Will not meet |
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| 09/22/11 | Dmitriy Bilyk (U. of M. and U. So. Carolina) |
The small ball inequality in analysis, discrepancy, probability, and approximation theory | Mark Keel |
| 09/29/11 | Ovidiu Munteanu (Columbia University) |
The geometry of gradient Ricci solitons | Jiaping Wang |
| 10/06/11 | Vitali Milman (Tel Aviv University) |
The Reasons Behind Some Classical Constructions in Geometry and Analysis | Sergey Bobkov |
| 10/13/11 | Frank Farris Santa Clara Univ./Carleton |
Undercover symmetry | |
| 10/20/11 | Hoai-Minh Nguyen (University of Minnesota) |
Scaling laws of energy and patterns in some elastic thin film problems | Vladimir Sverak |
| 10/27/11 | Thierry Gallay (Universite de Grenoble) |
The numerical measure of a complex matrix | Arnd Scheel |
| 11/03/11 | Zhiwei Yun (MIT) |
Motives and the inverse Galois problem | Dihua Jiang |
| 11/10/11 | Clark Barwick (MIT) |
The Tower of Babel Problem in higher category theory | Tyler Lawson, Bill Messing |
| 11/17/11 | Konstantin Oskolkov (Univ. of South Carolina) |
Vinogradov series | Svitlana Mayboroda |
| 11/24/11 | Thanksgiving |
Will not meet | |
| 12/01/11 | Erhan Bayraktar (Univ. of Michigan) |
Stochastic Perron's method and verification without smoothness using viscosity comparison: the linear case | Peter Olver |
| 12/08/11 | John Francis (Northwestern University) |
Factorization homology of topological manifolds | Sasha Voronov |
| 12/15/11 | Ellen Eischen (Northwestern University) |
L-functions and p-adic interpolation | Dihua Jiang |