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Colloquium

The Departmental Colloquium, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, meets weekly from 3:20--4:20pm at Vincent Hall 16. Refreshments are served from 3:05--3:20pm at Vincent Hall 120.

Professor Dihua Jiang is the Chair of the Departmental Colloquium for the year 2007--2008. Please contact him (dhjiang@math.umn.edu) if you have a good candidate of colloquium speakers.

Schedule of Fall, 2007

Date: Mo/Day/Year   Colloquium Speaker  Title  
09/06/07   Nick Katz  
(Ordway Visitor/Princeton University) 		 Elementary-sounding Things We Still Don't Know  
09/13/07   Yi Ni  
(AIM/Columbia University) 		 Heegaard Floer homology and fibred three-manifolds 
09/20/07    
(U. of ) 		 No Colloquium for Today 
09/27/07   Chongying Dong  
(University of California-SC) 		 On the uniqueness of the moonshine vertex operator algebra 
10/04/07    
(U. of ) 		 No Colloquium for Today 
10/11/07   Vitali Milman 
(Ordway visitor/Tel Aviv University) 		 Asymptotic Geometric Analysis: Geometrization of Probability  
10/18/07   Kathrin Bringmann  
(U. of MN) 		 Hypergeometric Series, Automorphic Forms, and Mock Theta Functions 
10/25/07   Jeb F. Willenbring  
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 		 The spherical principal series and related problems in classical invariant theory  
11/01/07   Andrew Stuart  
(Ordway visitor/University of Warwick)  		 Sampling Function Space: Applications and Algorithms 
11/08/07   Pierre Berthelot  
(Ordway Visitor/U. de Rennes 1 ) 		 Congruences mod q for the number of rational points of an algebraic variety over a field with q elements  
11/15/07   Arun Ram  
(University of Wisconsin--Madison) 		 Combinatorial Representation Theory 2008-2018 
11/22/07   Thanksgiving 
(U. of MN) 		 Happy Holidays 
11/29/07   Dan Barbasch 
(Cornell University) 		 Unipotent Representations and Unitarity 
12/06/07    
(U. of ) 		 No Colloquium For Today 
12/13/07   Natasa Sesum  
(Columbia University ) 		 title 

Schedule of Spring, 2008

Date: Mo/Day/Year   Colloquium Speaker  Title  
01/24/08   Patrick Shipman  
(University of Maryland-College Park ) 		 Growth and Symmetry: pattern formation on plants 
01/31/08   Nicholas Katz  
(Princeton University) 		 Weiferich Past and Future; A General Conjecture 
02/07/08   Per-Olof Persson  
(MIT) 		 High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Fluid and Solid Mechanics 
02/14/08   Panos Stinis  
(Stanford University) 		 Problem reduction, renormalization and memory 
02/21/08   Atsushi Ichino  
(IAS-Princeton/Osaka City University) 		 Periods of automorphic forms and special values of L-functions 
02/28/08   Sergei Kuksin  
(Ordway visitor/Heriot-Watt University) 		 KAM theory for space-multidimensional Hamiltonian PDE 
03/06/08   Eiji Yanagida  
(Ordway visitor/Tohoku University)  		 Dynamics of global solutions of a semilinear parabolic equation 
03/13/08    
(U. of) 		 No Lecture for Today 
03/20/08   Spring Break  
(U. of MN) 		 Happy Spring Break 
03/27/08   Daniel Spirn 
(U. of MN ) 		 Jacobians and Convergence of Energies 
04/03/08   Ralph Cohen  
(Stanford University) 		 Flat Connections on Riemann surfaces (revisited) 
04/10/08   Leila Schneps  
(University of Paris 6/University of Pennsylvania) 		 Multiple Zeta Values  
04/17/08   Christopher Sogge  
(Johns Hopkins University) 		 How focusing and dispersion influence the solution of certain linear and nonlinear equations 
04/24/08   Chris Leininger  
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 		 Algebra and Dynamics of Surface Homeomorphisms 
05/01/08   Guoliang Yu  
(Vanderbilt University) 		 Metric geometry and rigidity of manifolds 
05/08/08   Irene Fonseca  
(Carnegie Mellon University ) 		 Variational Methods in Materials and Imaging 

Schedule of Fall, 2008

Date: Mo/Day/Year   Colloquium Speaker  Title  
09/04/08    
(University of MN ) 		 No Colloquium for Today 
09/11/08   Jayce Getz  
(IAS/Princeton University) 		 The twisted relative trace formula 
09/18/08   Claude Le Bris  
(Ordway Visitor/CERMICS-ENPC) 		 Some Mathematical Questions Arising in Polymeric Fluid Simulations 
09/25/08   Gerhard Huisken  
(The Albert Einstein Institute) 		 Isoperimetric inequalities in manifolds and geometric Evolution Equations 
10/02/08   Tom Hou  
(Caltech ) 		 Recent Progress on Dynamic Stability and Global Regularity of 3D Incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations 
10/09/08    
(University of ) 		 No Colloquium for Today 
10/16/08   Ofer Zeitouni  
(University of Minnesota ) 		 Random walks in random environments: the perturbative regime 
10/23/08   Igor Pak  
(University of Minnesota) 		 Rigidity of polytopes, areas of polygons, and the Robbins conjectures 
10/30/08   Ingrid Daubechies  
(Princeton University ) 		 Canceled 
11/06/08   Howard Garland  
(Yale University) 		 Automorphic forms on arithmetic quotients of loop groups  
11/13/08   Mark Rudelson  
(University of Missouri ) 		 Invertibility of random matrices 
11/20/08   Mark Reeder  
(Boston College) 		 Lie Groups and Local Galois Theory 
11/27/08    
(University of ) 		 Thanksgiving Holiday 
12/04/08   Tyler Lawson  
(University of Minnesota ) 		 Elliptic curves and stable homotopy groups of spheres 
12/11/08   Ezra Miller  
(University of Minnesota ) 		 Transversality in homogeneous spaces  

Schedule of Spring, 2009

Date: Mo/Day/Year   Colloquium Speaker  Title   Local Host  
01/22/09    
(University of MN) 		 No Lecture for Today   
01/29/09   Szu-yu Sophie Chen  
(Institute for Advanced Study) 		 Asymptotically flat manifolds and elliptic systems   Jiaping Wang  
02/05/09    
(University of MN ) 		 No Lecture for Today    
02/12/09    
(University of MN) 		 No Lecture for Today    
02/19/09   Ridgway Scott  
(University of Chicago/IMA ) 		 The Mathematical Basis for Molecular van der Waals Forces  Douglas Arnold, Fadil Santosa  
02/26/09  F. Goetze  
(Universitat Bielefeld /Ordway Visitor) 		 The distribution of quadratic forms in Number Theory and Probability  Sergey Bobkov/Ordway Program  
03/05/09   Werner Mueller  
(Ordway Visitor/University of Bonn ) 		 The Selberg trace formula and dynamical zeta functions   Dihua Jiang/Ordway Program  
03/12/09    
(University of MN ) 		 No Lecture for Today    
03/19/09    
(University MN) 		 Happy Spring Break   
03/26/09   Michael Hopkins  
(Ordway Visitor/Harvard University) 		 Classification of Topological Field Theories  Tyler Lawson/Ordway Program  
04/02/09  Ezra Getzler  
(Northwestern University) 		 Topological field theory in two dimensions and Teichmueller space   Don Kahn  
04/09/09   Lin Weng  
(Kyushu University) 		 Stability and Arithmetic  Dihua Jiang  
04/16/09   Freydoon Shahidi  
(Purdue University) 		 Spectral Theory of Hyperbolic Laplacian and Functoriality Principle  Dihua Jiang  
04/23/09   Davesh Maulik  
(MIT ) 		 Noether-Lefschetz theory and Gromov-Witten theory  Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine  
04/30/09   Alexander Barvinok  
(University of Michigan ) 		 Probabilistic phenomena in the space of matrices with prescribed row and column sums  Igor Pak  
05/07/09   Xinyi Yuan  
(Clay Research Fellow/IAS) 		 Gross-Zagier formula and triple product formula  Dihua Jiang/Visitor Program