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Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices 2011-2012

MONDAY, 3/12
3:00 PM
MTH 1313
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Speaker: Jonathan Rosenberg (UMCP)
Title: String theory on elliptic curve orientifolds and KR-theory
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
APPLIED PDE RIT
Speaker: Sebastien Motsch (UMCP)
Title: Pedestrians
4:00 PM
MTH 1308
RIT ON ASPECTS OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Speaker: Ryan Barnett, UMCP, Physics
Title: Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
4:30 PM
Krieger 302
JHU, Baltimore
GEORGE KEMPF MEMORIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Tobias Colding, MIT
Title: Mean Curvature Flow
TUESDAY, 3/13
12:00 PM
ERF 1207
APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Jingyun Fan, NIST
Title: Creation and Usage of Few Photons
1:00 PM
MTH 3206
STUDENT ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Dave Karpuk
Title: Weil-étale Cohomology over Local Fields
3:30 PM
MTH 1310
Ph.D. THESIS DEFENSE
Speaker: Xuwen Chen, UMCP
Title: Methods of Harmonic Analysis Applied to Bose-Einstein Condensation
3:30 PM
MTH 1311
LOGIC SEMINAR
Speaker: Tim Mercure, UMCP
Title: Proof of Completeness and Quantifier Elimination for RCF
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dianne O'Leary (Computer Science Department, UMCP)
Title: Divide and Conquer: Using Spectral Methods on Partitioned Images
4:30 PM
Krieger 300
JHU, Baltimore
GEORGE KEMPF MEMORIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Tobias Colding, MIT
Title: Ricci Curvature
WEDNESDAY, 3/14
2:00 PM
CSIC 4122
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Anders C. Hansen, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
Title: Generalized Sampling and Infinite-Dimensional Compressed Sensing
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Amin Gholampour, UMCP
Title: Orbifold Gromov-Witten theory of the symmetric product of the An-resolution
2:00 PM
PHY 4102
Ph.D. THESIS DEFENSE
Speaker: Alexey Miroshnikov (UMCP)
Title: A Variational Approximation Scheme for Radial Polyconvex Elasticity that Preserves the Positivity of Determinants
3:15 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Alexis Vasseur (UT Austin)
Title: De Giorgi methods applied to regularity issues in Fluid Mechanics
THURSDAY, 3/15
12:30 PM
ERF 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. William Dorland, Physics, UMCP
Title: Weakly compressible turbulence in the interstellar medium: A problem in passive, kinetic mixing
3:30 PM
MTH 1308
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
Speaker: Kelly Funk (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Title: On Rigidity Sequences
3:30 PM
MTH 1313
STATISTICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Bimal Sinha (UMBC)
Title: Generalized P-values: Theory and Applications
FRIDAY, 3/16
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
LEARNING SEMINAR ON P-ADIC HODGE THEORY
Speaker: Arijit Sehanobish, UMCP
Title: The Construction of BdR (cont'd)
11:00 PM
AVW 2460
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES ON VISION
Speaker: Jeremy M. Wolfe, Ophthalmology & Radiology Depts., Harvard Medical School
Title: From the berry patch to the radiology suite: Adventures in visual search
Rception beforehand at 10:30