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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 is the Chair of the Departmental Colloquium for the Spring semester, 2013. Please contact him (gulliver@math.umn.edu, tel. 5-1560) if you have a good candidate for a colloquium speaker. |
| Date: Mo/Day/Year | Colloquium Speaker | Title | Local Host |
| 01/24/13 | Ting Xue (Northwestern University) |
Nilpotent Orbits and Springer Representations | Dennis Stanton |
| 01/31/13 | Lutz Weis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) |
$L_p$ regularity of parabolic stochastic partial differential equations | Svitlana Mayboroda |
| 02/07/13 | Mark Behrens MIT |
Exotic spheres and topological modular forms | Sasha Voronov |
| 02/14/13 | Will not meet |
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| 02/21/13 | Chris Rycroft Univ. of California, Berkeley |
Modeling the toughness of metallic glasses | Hans Othmer |
| 02/28/13 | Idun Reiten (NTNU) |
Categorification of quiver mutation | Gregg Musiker |
| 03/07/13 | Anna Mazzucato (Penn State University) |
Incompressible Fluid Flows at High Reynolds Numbers | Svitlana Mayboroda |
| 03/14/13 | Hiroshi Matano (University of Tokyo) |
Some results on curve-shortening equations | Peter Polacik |
| 03/21/13 | Spring Break |
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| 03/28/13 | Richard Stanley MIT |
Alternating permutations | Vic Reiner |
| 04/04/13 | Tony Lelievre (Ecole des Ponts Paris) |
Numerical methods in molecular dynamics | Mitch Luskin |
| 04/11/13 | Shamgar Gurevich Univ. Wisconsin |
Solving the GPS problem in almost linear complexity | Gilad Lerman |
| 04/18/13 | David Dumas Univ. of Illinois Chicago |
Complex projective structures and character varieties | Al Marden |
| 04/25/13 | Francesco Baldassarri University of Padova |
Non-archimedean analysis of irregular singularities | Steve Sperber |
| 05/02/13 | Vlad Markovic Cal Tech |
Virtual Classification of closed 3-manifolds | Al Marden |
| 05/09/13 | Will not meet |
| Date: Mo/Day/Year | Colloquium Speaker | Title | Local Host |
| 09/06/12 |
Will not meet |
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| 09/13/12 | Will not meet |
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| 09/20/12 | Giorgio Fusco (University of l'Aquila) |
Platonic polyhedra and periodic solutions of the classical N-body problem | Rick Moeckel |
| 09/27/12 | Evelyn Sander (George Mason University) |
The cascades route to chaos_ | Dick McGehee |
| 10/04/12 | Robert Hardt (Rice University) |
Plateau Problems in Metric Spaces | Bob Gulliver |
| 10/11/12 | Peter Bates (Michigan State University) |
The motion of particles driven by Allen-Cahn dynamics on the boundary of a smooth domain | Bob Gulliver |
| 10/18/12 | Margaret Beck (Heriot-Watt Univ./Boston Univ.) |
Quasi-stationary states of the 2D Navier-Stokes equation | Arnd Scheel |
| 10/25/12 | Will not meet |
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| 11/01/12 | Aaron Fogelson (University of Utah) |
Mathematical Modeling of Blood Clotting: The Interplay of Coagulation Chemistry, Platelet Deposition, and Flow | Yoichiro Mori |
| 11/08/12 | Jim Haglund (University of Pennsylvania) |
The Combinatorics of Macdonald Polynomials | Dennis Hejhal |
| 11/15/12 | Tasho Kaletha (Princeton University/IAS) |
The symmetry in numbers | Kai-Wen Lan |
| 11/22/12 | Thanksgiving |
will not meet | |
| 11/29/12 | Ting Zhou MIT |
Electromagnetic Visibility and Invisibility | Fadil Santosa |
| 12/06/12 | Yu-Jong Tzeng (Harvard University) |
Enumerative Geometry: from Classical to Modern | Dihua Jiang |
| 12/13/12 | Anne Shiu (University of Chicago) |
Geometry and dynamics of reaction systems | Hans Othmer |
| 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 |