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Colloquium

The Departmental Colloquium, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, meets weekly from 3:30--4:30pm in Vincent Hall 16. Refreshments are served from 3:10pm in Vincent Hall 120.

Prof. Robert Gulliver and Prof. Dihua Jiang are the co-Chairs of the Departmental Colloquium for the year 2009--2010. Please contact them (gulliver@math.umn.edu and dhjiang@math.umn.edu) if you have a good candidate for a colloquium speaker.

Schedule for Fall, 2009

Date: Mo/Day/Year   Colloquium Speaker  Title   Local Host  
09/10/09    
 		 No Colloquium for Today   
09/17/09   Yoshikazu Giga  
(University of Tokyo/IMA) 		 On the Navier-Stokes flow with infinite energy and its applications   Peter Polacik  
09/24/09   Juan Restrepo  
(University of Arizona/IMA) 		 Nonlinear/Non-Gaussian Time Series and Parameter Estimation   P. Olver/R. Gulliver/Carme Calderer  
10/01/09   Gunnar Carlson  
(Stanford University) 		 Topology and Data  Don Kahn 
10/08/09   Sijue Wu  
(University of Michigan/IMA) 		 Wellposedness of the full water wave problem in two and three dimensions  Vladimir Sverak  
10/15/09  Bao Chau Ngo  
(Paris-Sud/IAS, Princeton) 		 Fundamental lemma   Dihua Jiang 
10/22/09   Sylvie Corteel  
(CNRS/Universite Paris Diderot 7) 		 Enumeration of Fillings of Young Diagrams   Dennis Stanton  
10/29/09   Bill Casselman  
(U. of British-Columbia ) 		 Patterns in Coxeter groups   Dihua Jiang  
11/05/09   Eric Sommers  
(U. of Massachusetts at Amherst) 		 Green Polynomials in Representation Theory and Combinatorics  Vic Reiner  
11/12/09   David Nadler  
(Northwestern University) 		 Perspectives on D-modules   Dihua Jiang  
11/19/09  Jon Wolfson  
(Michigan State University) 		 Manifolds with k-positive Ricci curvature  Bob Gulliver  
11/26/09    
 		 Happy Thanksgiving Day   
12/03/09   Gregg Musiker 
(MIT) 		 Elliptic curves and chip-firing games on graphs  Vic Reiner  
12/10/09   Pavlo Pylyavskyy  
(University of Michigan) 		 Total positivity in loop groups  Vic Reiner  

Schedule for Spring, 2010

Date: Mo/Day/Year   Colloquium Speaker  Title TBA   Local Host  
01/21/10   TBA  
(University of ) 		 title TBA  HC  
01/28/10   TBA  
(University of ) 		 title TBA   HC  
02/04/10   TBA  
(University of ) 		 title TBA   HC  
02/11/10   TBA  
(University of) 		 title TBA   HC  
02/18/10   TBA  
(University of ) 		 title TBA   HC  
02/25/10  TBA  
(University of ) 		 title TBA   HC  
03/04/10   TBA  
(University of ) 		 title TBA    
03/11/10   Mark Hovey  
(Wesleyan University) 		 _title TBA_  D. Kahn  
03/18/10    
 		 Spring Break    
03/25/10   Terence Tao  
(UCLA) 		 title TBA   Keel/Ordway Program  
04/01/10   TBA  
(University of ) 		 title TBA    
04/08/10   Steve Zelditch  
(Johns Hopkins U./NWU) 		 title TBA  Ofer Zeitouni  
04/15/10   TBA  
(University of ) 		 title TBA   
04/22/10   Richard Hind  
(University of Notre Dame) 		 Title TBA  Tian-Jun Li  
04/29/10   TBA  
(University of ) 		 Title TBA  Jiang  
05/06/10   Robert Gompf  
(University of Texas ) 		 Title TBA  T.-J. Li  

Departmental Colloquium Since Fall, 2007