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Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices

SUNDAY, 4/11
9:00 AM
MTH 3206
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS CONFERENCE
(in Memory of Dan Rudolph)
  9:00   Jean-Paul Thouvenot, Université de Paris VI, France
          A criterion for a transformation to satisfy the weak Pinsker Property
10:15   Aimee Johnson, Swarthmore College
          Recurrence on Infinite Measure Dynamical Systems
11:15   Ayse Sahin, DePaul University
          The geometry and directional entropy of rank one Zd actions

Student Session I (Room B0421):
         2:30-2:55 Ben Webb, Georgia Tech
          Isospectral Graph Reduction and Estimates of Matrices' Spectra.
          3:05-3:30   Uijin Jung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon
          Extension theorems for codes between shifts of finite type
          3:40-4:05 Mahsa Allahbakhshi, University of Victoria
          Factor triples and relative entropy

Student Session II (Room 3206):
         2:30-2:55 Van Cyr, The Pennsylvania State University
          Conformal measures for transient Markov shifts
         3:05-3:30 Byungsoo Kim, Colorado State University
          Rolling molecules: stationray states, stability and statistical physics
         3:40-4:05 Vaughn Climenhaga, The Pennsylvania State University
          Multifractal analysis of Birkhoff averages

  4:30   Anatole Katok, The Pennsylvania State University
          From times 2, times 3 to nonuniform measure rigidity

  5.45 (approximately)   Memorial Event for Dan Rudolph
MONDAY, 4/12
9:00 AM
MTH 3206
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS CONFERENCE
(in Memory of Dan Rudolph)
  9:00   Patrick LaVictoire, U.C.Berkeley
          Singular Integral Theory and L1 Ergodic Theorems
10:15   Tim Austin, UCLA
          Some recent approaches to multiple recurrence.
11:30   Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University
          On Meiri Sequences
  2:30   Chris Hoffman, University of Washington
          A K but not Bernoulli Z2 subshift of finite type
  3:45   Alejandro Maass, University of Chile, Santiago
          Nilsequences and a structure theorem for topological dynamical systems
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Yiannis Petridis, Univ. College, London
Title: Existence of cusp forms and L-functions of higher order modular forms
3:00 PM
MTH 1313
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Speaker: Darren Long (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Title: Commensurators of infinite volume Kleinian groups
TUESDAY, 4/13
8:30 AM
MTH 3206
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS CONFERENCE
(in Memory of Dan Rudolph)
  8:30   Andres del Junco, University of Toronto
          A survey of almost continuous orbit equivalence
  9:30   Raul Ures, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay
          Entropy maximizing measures for some partially hyperbolic systems
11:00   Benjamin Weiss, Hebrew University
          On Dan Rudolph's impact on measurable dynamics
1:30 PM
MTH 3206
RIT ON QUANTUM INFORMATION
Speaker: Howard Barnum, LANL and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Title: Error Correction and Fault Tolerance
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
LOGIC SEMINAR
Speaker: Valentina Harizanov, The George Washington University
Title: Orders on Groups
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Irene Kyza (University of Maryland, College Park)
Title: A posteriori error estimates for approximations of Schroedinger-type and semilinear parabolic equations
3:30 PM
MTH 1308
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR (Note Day and Time Change)
Speaker: Sergiy Kolyada (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Title: Li-Yorke sensitivity and other concepts of chaos in (topological) dynamics
WEDNESDAY, 4/14
2:00 PM
MTH 3206
PROBABILITY SEMINAR
Speaker: Vladislav Vysotsky, (University of Delaware)
Title: Positivity of integrated random walks
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Jeffrey Adams, UMCP
Title: Computing the unitary dual, 3
2:00 PM
CSIC 4122
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof Howard Barnum, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Title: Quantum information processing in context: information processing in convex operational theories
12:00 noon
CSS 4301
AMSC STUDENT SEMINAR
Speaker: Lingyan Cao, UMCP
Title: Gradient Estimation and Mountain Range Options
Speaker: Dave Shaw, UMCP
Title: Statistical Methods in Video Analysis
THURSDAY, 4/15
12:15 PM
1207 Energy Res. Bldg.
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Tom DuBois, Computer Science, University of Maryland
Title: Improving Epidemic Intervention Using Social Contact Network Structure
1:15 PM
MTH 3206
CELESTIAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE
    1:15pm - 2:15pm - John Mather (Princeton)
    2:25pm - 3:25pm - Tere M. Seara (UPC)
    3:40pm - 4:40pm  - Gabriella Pinzari (Rome, Italy)
    4:50pm - 5:20pm - Jinxin Xue (Maryland)
    5:30pm - 6:00 pm - Mohamed Sami ElBialy (Toledo)
    6:00pm - ? -  Social hour
FRIDAY, 4/16
9:30 AM
MTH 3206
CELESTIAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE
    9:30 am - 10:30 am - Andrea Venturelli (Avignon)
    10:45am - 11:15 pm  - Marcel Guardia (UPC)
    11:30pm - 12pm - Joseph Galante (Maryland)
    1:45pm -2:45pm - Marian Gidea (Northeastern Illinois University)
    3:00pm - 4:00pm - Math Department Colloquium
    4:20pm - 4:50 pm - Alejandro Luque Jiménez (UPC)
11:00 AM
CSIC 1122
DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR ON VISION
(in Memory of Azriel Rosenfeld)
Speaker: Pawan Sinha, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Title: Learning to see
3:00 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: James Alexander (Case Western Reserve and NSF)
Title: A historical perspective on the Gibbs phenomenon
SATURDAY, 4/17
9:45 AM
MTH 3206
CELESTIAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE
    9:45 am - 10:45am - Rick Moeckel (Minnesota)
    11:00am - 11:30 - Gemma Huguet (CRM)
    11:45pm - 12:15 pm - Mikko Stenlund (Courant)
    2:00pm - 3:00pm - Marie-Claude Arnaud (Avignon)
    3:15pm - 4:15 pm - Laurent Niederman (Orsay)
    4:30pm - 5:00pm -   - William Rivera (Maryland)