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Previously Posted Seminars

More recent seminars are listed listed first, and are dated for the Monday of the week. Previous to 1997, seminars are listed by the date that they were posted.

2008

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2008-09-08  "The twisted relative trace formula"
2008-09-01
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2008-05-06  "Variational methods in materials and imaging"
2008-05-05  "Variational methods in materials and imaging"
2008-04-28  "Metric geometry and rigidity of manifolds"
2008-04-21  "Algebra and Dynamics of Surface Homeomorphisms"
2008-04-14  "How focusing and dispersion influence the solution of certain linear and nonlinear equations"
2008-04-07  "Multiple zeta values"
2008-03-31  "Flat connections on Riemann surfaces (revisited)"
2008-03-24  "Jacobians and convergence of energies"
2008-03-17
2008-03-10
2008-03-03  "Dynamics of global solutions of a semilinear parabolic equation"
2008-02-25  "KAM theory for space-multidimensional Hamiltonian PDE"
2008-02-18  "Periods of automorphic forms and special values of L-functions"
2008-02-11  "Problem reduction, renomalization and memory"
2008-02-04  "High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Fluid and Solid Mechanics"
2008-01-28  "Weiferich Past and Future: A General Conjecture"
2008-01-21  "Growth and symmetry: pattern formation on plants"
2008-01-07
 

2007

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2007-12-17
2007-12-10  "The Ricci flow and the asymptotics of its solutions on $R^2$."
2007-12-03
2007-11-26  "Unipotent Representations and Unitarity"
2007-11-19
2007-11-12  "Combinatorial representation theory 2008-2018"
2007-11-05  "Congruences mod q for the number of rational points of an algebraic variety over a field with q elements"
2007-10-29  "Sampling function space: Applications and Algorithms"
2007-10-22  "The spherical principal series and related problems in classical invariant theory"
2007-10-15  "Hypergeometric Series, Automorphic Forms, and Mock Theta Functions"
2007-10-08  "Asymptotic geometric analysis: Geometrization of probability"
2007-10-01
2007-09-24  "The uniqueness of the moonshine vertex operator algebra"
2007-09-17
2007-09-10  "Heegaard Floer homology and fibred three-manifolds"
2007-09-03  "Elementary-sounding Things We Still Don't Know"
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2007-05-07
2007-04-30  "Mathematical challenges in coupling atomistic and continuum models"
2007-04-23  "The Chevalley-Shephard-Todd theorem in positive characteristic"
2007-04-16  "Second order superintegrable systems and algebraic varieties"
2007-04-09  "Qualitative and geometric dynamics of time-delay systems"
2007-04-02  "The geometry of hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
2007-03-26  "High-order methods for high-frequency acoustic and electromagnetic scattering simulations"
2007-03-19  "Emerging applications of finite elasticity"
2007-03-12
2007-03-05  "Evolution of minimal tori in Riemannian manifolds"
2007-02-26  "From Drosophila and transposable elements to phylogenetic networks and associahedra"
2007-02-19
2007-02-12
2007-02-05
2007-01-29  "The abelian/nonabelian correspondence and quantum cohomology"
2007-01-22  "Moduli of abelian varieties and stable homotopy theory"
2007-01-15  "Inflating polyhedral surfaces"
 

2006

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2006-12-11
2006-12-04  "Canonical Kahler metrics and the Kahler-Ricci flow"
2006-11-27  "From principal eigenfunctions to principal Floquet bundles"
2006-11-20
2006-11-13  "Boundary and asymptotic behavior of L-harmonic functions in non-smooth domains"
2006-11-06  "Global regularity for three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations and other relevant geophysical models"
2006-10-30
2006-10-23  "Symplectic Field Theory"
2006-10-16  "Local-global principles for representations of quadratic forms"
2006-10-09  "How to quantify complexity of fibrations of topological spaces"
2006-10-02  "Computing the genus of a curve numerically"
2006-09-25  "What is Gauge Theory?"
2006-09-18  "Overview of the zero dispersion limit"
2006-09-11  "What is symplectic topology"
2006-09-04
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2006-05-01
2006-04-24  "Can a species keep pace with a shifting climate?"
2006-04-17  "Quasi-isometries of solvable groups"
2006-04-10  "Boundary and asymptotic behavior of L-harmonic functions in non-smooth domains"
2006-04-03  "Conformal representation of two-dimensional Riemannian metrics -- a variational approach to Lichtenstein's theorem and uniformization"
2006-03-27
2006-03-20  "Geometry of Heegaard splittings"
2006-03-06  "Geometry of Heegaard splittings"
2006-02-27
2006-02-20  "Rationality of some generating series in number theory and their geometric analogues"
2006-02-13  "Near linear-time solution of elliptic differential equations using support-graph preconditioners"
2006-02-06
2006-01-30  "Geometric realizations of mapping class groups and circle groups"
2006-01-23  "The nature of partition bijections"
2006-01-16
 

2005

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2005-12-12
2005-12-05  "Rational points on elliptic curves"
2005-11-28
2005-11-14  "Recent results on the intersection theory of the moduli space of curves"
2005-11-07
2005-10-31  "Discretization versus reconstruciton: A random walk through numerical integration and low discrepancy sequences on rectifiable sets"
2005-10-24
2005-10-17  "The stable homotopy ring of spheres, its modules, and the generating hypothesis"
2005-10-10  "Ramanujan graphs, Ramanujan hypergraphs and automorphic forms"
2005-10-03  "The local Langlands conjecture"
2005-09-26  "The Lipschitz extension problem"
2005-09-19  "Height zeta functions"
2005-09-12  "Introduction to singularity analysis in Ricci flow"
2005-09-05  "Weight theory for modular representations of finite groups"
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2005-05-02  "Combinatorics in cohomology and convexity"
2005-04-25  "Symmetries and “simple” solutions of the classical n-body problem"
2005-04-18
2005-04-11  "Conformal mapping in linear time"
2005-04-04
2005-03-28  "INCOMPRESSIBILITY"
2005-03-21  "The dawning era of mathematical image and vision analysis (Miva)"
2005-03-14
2005-03-07
2005-02-28  "Twisted Fermat Curves Over Totally Real Fields"
2005-02-21  "Dynamics of reaction and diffusion: A survey"
2005-02-14  "Curve countings, modular forms and Seiberg-Witten theory"
2005-02-07
2005-01-31  "Fifty years after Fermi, Pasta and Ulam: Nonlinear waves in Hamiltonian chains at low energy"
2005-01-24
2005-01-17  "Tameness of hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
 

2004

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2004-12-06  "Operads, strings topology, and Deligne's conjecture"
2004-11-29  "The critical group of a graph"
2004-11-22
2004-11-15  "Some Physical and Frequency-space tools for dispersive PDE"
2004-11-08  "Special functions, special points and transcendence"
2004-11-01  "Analysis on some complex fluid models"
2004-10-25  "Motion in random environment: conjectures, counter examples, and “obvious" theorems"
2004-10-18  "Recent Advance in Orbifold Theory"
2004-10-11  "The Geometry of the Space of Phylogenetic Trees"
2004-10-04  "The use of twistor cohomology in solving equations of physics"
2004-09-27  "Convexity and Parabolic Equations"
2004-09-20  "Stability and compact global attractors in dissipative dynamical systems"
2004-09-13  "Relative equilibria, Newton polytopes and Smale's 6th problem"
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2004-05-03  "Moving frames and the evolution of invariants"
2004-04-26  "Some remarks on finite elements"
2004-04-19  "Affine Structures and Non-Archimedean Geometry"
2004-04-12  "Symplectic structures on smooth manifolds"
2004-04-05  "Heat equations in infinite dimensions and applications to stochastic PDE"
2004-03-29  "Nonlinear diffusion and hysteresis"
2004-03-22  "On the Baker Akhieser function for the m-Quasi-Invariants of $S_n$"
2004-03-15
2004-03-08  "Orthogonal polynomials in solvable models"
2004-03-01  "Orthogonal polynomials in solvable models"
2004-02-23  "Ergodic geometry and the role of nilpotent gorups and nilmanifolds"
2004-02-16  "Is there a p-adic local Langlands correspondence?"
2004-02-09  "Random matrices. The analytical aspects of the theory"
2004-02-02  "Particle representations for some SPDEs and measure-valued processes"
2004-01-26  "Monodromy and algebraic stacks"
2004-01-19  "Non-convex variational problems in physics, materials science, and geometry"
 

2003

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2003-12-08  "The geometry and analysis of black holes, Price's law, and the cosmic censorship conjectures"
2003-12-01
2003-11-24
2003-11-17
2003-11-10  "The concentration of measure phenomenon"
2003-11-03  "Tropical algebraic geometry"
2003-10-27
2003-10-20  "Quillen homotopy structures, old and new"
2003-10-13  "From the quadratic reciprocity law to the proof of Fermat's last theorem: an introduction to the Langlands program"
2003-10-06  "Hilbert schemes"
2003-09-29  "Roots of unity in enumeration"
2003-09-22  "Homotopy K3-surfaces"
2003-09-15  "Geometric foundations of numerical algorithms and symmetry"
2003-09-08  "Langlands Functoriality for Classical Groups"
2003-09-01
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2003-05-05  "Tree Space"
2003-04-28  "Zero cycles on surfaces"
2003-04-21  "Random weighting, asymptotic counting, and inverse isoperimetry"
2003-04-14  "Anisotropic turbulence in geophysical flows"
2003-04-07  "The future publication landscape seen from a mathematicians point of view"
2003-03-31
2003-03-24  "An elementary proof of the Gaussian isoperimetric inequality"
2003-03-10  "Decomposing solution sets of polynomial systems"
2003-03-03  "Constrained optimization of expensive functions using surrogates"
2003-02-24  "Rigid cohomology"
2003-02-17  "Mathematical and Computational MOdels for Microstructure, Phase Transformation, and Metastability"
2003-02-10  "A new algorithm for minimization without derivatives"
2003-02-03  "Boundary regularity for the Ricci equation, geometric convergence, and Gelfand's inverse boundary problem"
2003-01-27  "Superrigidity in negative curvature"
2003-01-20  "Solitons and Many-Body Systems in Algebraic Geometry"
 

2002

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2002-12-09
2002-12-02  "Application of fluid models to recurrence and central limits for queueing networks"
2002-11-25
2002-11-18  "Where do drunkards hang out: frequent and late points of random walks and their fractal structure"
2002-11-11  "Trace methods in algebraic K-theory"
2002-11-04  "Spectral theory and geometry of locally symmetric spaces"
2002-10-28  "The Markus Harmonic Operator"
2002-10-21  "From the origins of rigidity/superrigidity to an application in logic"
2002-10-14  "Uniquely complemented latticles: a case study"
2002-10-07  "Deformation Theory of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
2002-09-30  "The Vaserstein-Suslin theorems and Serre's program"
2002-09-23  "Travel time tomography and boundary rigidity"
2002-09-16  "Function theory on manifolds and some recent applications to geometry and topology"
2002-09-09  "Projective geometry, jet bundles and combinatorics"
2002-09-02  "Analyzing microarray data to discover differentially expressed genes"
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2002-05-06  "Self-assembly of soft condensed matter and living systems"
2002-04-29  "$C^*$-algebras, unitary group representations, and K-theory"
2002-04-22  "The stable manifold theorem for stochastic differential equations"
2002-04-15  "The focusing problem for porous medium flow; experiment, computation, theory, and conjecture"
2002-04-08  "Cohomological physics: E. Noether and Batalin-Vilkovisky"
2002-04-01
2002-03-25  "Primitive ideals and dual pairs"
2002-03-11  "The mathematical education of teachers"
2002-03-04  "Cohomology of varieties in characteristic p"
2002-02-25  "Homology of the matching complex and chessboard complex"
2002-02-18  "Sub-Riemannian geometry and kernels associated with certain hypoelliptic operators"
2002-02-11  "L-functions, Automorphic Representations and Langlands functoriality conjecture"
2002-02-04  "Arithmetree"
2002-01-28  "Moduli space of symplectic structures"
2002-01-21  "The impossible period-doubling of a spiral wave"
 

2001

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2001-12-10
2001-12-03  "Differential complexes and numerical analysis"
2001-11-26
2001-11-19
2001-11-12  "Non-abelian B-fields and the differential geometry of Gerbes"
2001-11-05  "New thoughts on Sobolev spaces "
2001-10-29  "From black cats to black holes: A biased survey of nonlinear wave equations"
2001-10-22
2001-10-15  "Slip Velocity and Lift"
2001-10-08  "Preconditioners for acoustic and electromagnetic integral equations"
2001-10-04  "Formal Groups - Construction and Classification"
2001-09-24  "Deformable Thin Films"
2001-09-17  "Economics and cryptography on the internet"
2001-09-10  "String topology"
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2001-04-30  "Dynamics, stochastic approximation and game theory"
2001-04-23  "Tensor products of lattices"
2001-04-16
2001-04-09  "The collapse of vortex tubes and fronts for incompressible flows"
2001-04-02  "Counting problems in number theory and billiards"
2001-03-26
2001-03-19  "The arithmetic significance of some Eisenstein series"
2001-03-12  "Cartesian currents in the calculus of variations"
2001-03-05  "Compact metric spaces defined by a Turing machine"
2001-02-26
2001-02-19  "Combinatorial properties of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials"
2001-02-12  "Traveling Waves in Lattice Dynamical Systems: Patterns and Imperfections"
2001-02-05  "Derived Deformation Theory"
2001-01-29  "Infinitely twisted curves and modular forms"
2001-01-22  "The Babylonian roots of classical Greek mathematics"
 

2000

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2000-12-11
2000-12-04  "Bad boundaries of simply connected regions and the view from above"
2000-11-27  "Localization Process in Homotopy Theory"
2000-11-20
2000-11-13
2000-11-06  "Mappings of bounded distortion between noncompact Riemann surfaces"
2000-10-30  "Strong instability for higher modes"
2000-10-23  "Stability of invariant sets of autonomous differential equations"
2000-10-16  "Recent Advances on a Conjecture for the Riemann Zea Function"
2000-10-09  "The Bernstein problem for affine maximal surfaces"
2000-10-02  "Recent Progress on the Novikov Conjecture"
2000-09-25  "Polynomial growth harmonic functions on manifolds"
2000-09-18  "Does normal mathematics need new axioms?"
2000-09-11  "Dynamics on Lorentz manifolds"
2000-09-04
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
2000-05-01  "Minuscule Combinatorics"
2000-04-24
2000-04-17  "On a theorem of Strobel"
2000-04-10  "Proof of the Riemannian Penrose conjecture using the positive mass theorem, Part II"
2000-04-03  "Title: To be announced"
2000-03-20  "The many facets of the Kostka polynomials"
2000-03-13  "Analysis on metric measure spaces"
2000-03-06  "Boundary slopes of knots"
2000-02-28  "Mathematical problems in the theory of micro-magnetism"
2000-02-21  "Probability theory of random Euclidean graphs"
2000-02-14  "Asymptotic evidence for the Maxwell load in localized buckling"
2000-02-07  "Stability properties of the Riemann ellipsoids"
2000-01-31  "Stability and instability of spiral waves"
2000-01-24  "Applications of Taylor series in topology"
2000-01-17  "Discrete geometry and geochemistry"
 

1999

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1999-12-13  "Stability of Peakons"
1999-12-06  "Configuration spaces of planar mechanical linkages"
1999-11-29  "Non-monotonic curvature dependent propagation of flames and other interfaces"
1999-11-22
1999-11-15  "Nonlinear wave equations with damping terms"
1999-11-08  "The role of explicit space in plant competition models"
1999-11-01  "Two conjectures of G.D. Birkhoff"
1999-10-25  "Szpiro inequality and mapping class group"
1999-10-18  "The Search for El Nino"
1999-10-11  "The Navier-Stokes Alpha-Model for Fluid Turbulence"
1999-10-04  "Rational curves in geometry and string theory"
1999-09-27  "Discrete Morse Theory"
1999-09-20  "Does non abelian cohomology exist?"
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1999-05-24  "On Xie's inequality and conjecture, and its importance to Navier-Stokes theory"
1999-05-17  "Ginzburg-Landau equations and minimal submanifolds"
1999-05-10  "On local theory of finite groups"
1999-05-02  "Random polynomials and shuffling cards"
1999-04-26
1999-04-19
1999-04-12  "Some Recent Results on the Distribution of Zeros of Zeta Functions"
1999-04-05  "Elements of a qualitative theory of Hamiltonian PDEs."
1999-03-29  "Breakdown of a shallow water equation"
1999-03-08  "From Micro to Macro and Back (on the derivation of equations of mathematical physics)"
1999-03-01
1999-02-22  "A study of the behaviour of the stresses in reinforced composites with closely spaces fibers."
1999-02-15
1999-02-08  "A multiscale approach to cluster growth problems."
1999-02-01  "The convex hull property of harmonic maps."
1999-01-25
1999-01-11  "Crystalline cohomology and D-module theory"
1999-01-04  "A Biological Problem Viewed Through the Lens of Mathematics: Pattern Formation and Morphogenesis in Early Development."
 

1998

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1998-11-30
1998-11-23
1998-11-16
1998-11-09  "Chaos in partial differential equations."
1998-11-02  "Singular perturbation modeling of how ion interchange speeds neurotransmitter release."
1998-10-26
1998-10-19  "Estimates near the boundary for solutions of second order parabolic equations."
1998-10-12  "Estimates near the boundary for solutions of second order parabolic equations."
1998-09-28  "Automorphic Forms and L-functions."
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1998-06-01
1998-05-25  "Zeros of zeta functions and symmetry."
1998-05-18  "Modular Invariant Theory."
1998-05-11  "Stability of matter in magnetic fields."
1998-05-04  "Soliton Equations and Differential Geometry."
1998-04-27  "Einstein metrics in complex differential geometry."
1998-04-20  "Inverse Scattering in an Anisotropic Medium."
1998-04-13  " Stability in dynamical systems and viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations."
1998-04-06  "Finite quantum systems and their continuum limits."
1998-03-30  "Title to be announced."
1998-03-09  "Slow evolution in Hamiltonian systems."
1998-03-02  "Existence and compactness of wavemaps in 1+2 dimensions."
1998-02-23  "Hamiltonian Dynamics, Normal Forms, and Water Waves."
1998-02-16  "A conjectural inequality."
1998-02-09  "Spectra of combinatorial Laplace operators."
1998-02-02  "Defects and singularities in reaction-diffusion systems."
1998-01-26  "A model for wolf territories and wolf-deer interactions."
1998-01-19  "Resolution of singularities and alterations."
1998-01-12  "A Postieri error estimation for nonlinear parabolic equations."
1998-01-05  "The death of periodicity: Multiple time scale models of neurons."
 

1997

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1997-12-01
1997-11-24
1997-11-17  "Sturm Attractors."
1997-11-10  "Hilbert's sixth problem: A numerical analyst's approach"
1997-11-03  "Morse theory in nonlinear analysis"
1997-10-27  "Symplectic Geometries for Differential Operators"
1997-10-20  "Our Knotted Wye"
1997-10-13  "Collocate and Bifurcate: Numerical methods for boundary value problems with application to bifurcation problems"
1997-10-03
1997-09-29
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1997-06-02
1997-05-28
1997-05-23
1997-05-19
1997-05-13
1997-05-12
1997-04-28  "Be all that you can be!"
1997-04-04
1997-03-28
1997-03-10
1997-03-05
1997-02-28
 

1996

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1996-12-16
1996-12-06
1996-11-25
1996-11-15
1996-11-11
1996-11-04
1996-10-28
1996-10-21
1996-10-14
1996-10-08
1996-10-07
1996-09-30
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1996-05-20
1996-05-13
1996-05-06
1996-04-29
1996-04-22
1996-04-15
1996-04-08
1996-04-01
1996-03-25
1996-03-11
1996-03-04
1996-02-26
1996-02-12
1996-02-05
1996-01-29
1996-01-22
1996-01-15
1996-01-08
1996-01-01
 

1995

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1995-11-27
1995-11-20
1995-11-13
1995-11-06
1995-10-30
1995-10-23
1995-10-16
1995-10-09
1995-10-02
1995-09-25
1995-09-18
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1995-05-29
1995-05-22
1995-05-08
1995-04-24
1995-04-17
1995-04-10
1995-03-27
1995-03-13
1995-03-06
1995-02-20
1995-02-13
1995-02-06
1995-01-30
1995-01-23
1995-01-16
 

1994

Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1994-11-28
1994-11-21
1994-11-14
1994-11-07
1994-10-31
1994-10-24
1994-10-14
1994-10-07
1994-09-29
1994-09-23
1994-09-16
 
Week  Colloquium Title (one of several seminars each week)
1994-05-31
1994-05-25
1994-05-13
1994-05-06
 

1994 to 1851

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