Mathematics Graduate Minicourse Series

The Graduate Minicourse Series is a collection of multi-lecture minicourses intended to introduce beginning graduate students to the research opportunities available in our programs and to present important professional topics. Each Minicourse will usually consist of three consecutive one-hour lectures, either in the 4:00 pm Monday time slot or the parallel 4:00 pm Wednesday time slot. Everyone is welcome to attend and students may register for the one-credit courses AMSC 687, MATH 687 or STAT 687 to receive credit for their participation. To receive credit a student must attend at least four minicourses during the year and write a brief one or two page report on each to be submitted to the minicourse coordinators. Students wishing to sign up for credit should speak with one of the minicourse coordinators as to the expectations for their successful participation. The coordinators are Prof. R. Nochetto (rhn@math.umd.edu) and Prof. R. Herb (rah@math.umd.edu)

Schedule of Minicourses, Fall Semester 2003
Monday, 4:00 pm, MATH3206
Date
Speaker
Title
Sept 8
 Dan Rudolph
 Ergodic Theory I:  What are standard probability spaces?
Sept 15
 Math 695 TA seminar meeting
Sept 22
 Dan Rudolph Ergodic Theory II:  Ergodic theorems?  What are they?
Sept 29
 Dan Rudolph Ergodic Theory III:  A brief introduction to dynamical entropy
Oct 6
 Math 695 TA seminar meeting
Oct 13
 Benjamin Kedem
 Regression Models For Time Series Analysis I  abstract
Oct 20
 Benjamin Kedem
 Regression Models For Time Series Analysis II
Oct. 27 Benjamin Kedem
 Regression Models For Time Series Analysis III
Nov 3
 James Yorke
 Chaos and weather prediction  abstract
Nov 10
 James Yorke
 Modeling the populations dynamics of HIV/AIDS
Nov 17
 James Yorke
 Almost every observation:  a mathematical theory of measurement
Nov 24
  
  
Dec 1
 Thomas Wallsten
 Stochastic Models of Judgment and Choice I
Dec 8
 Thomas Wallsten
Stochastic Models of Judgment and Choice II
Wednesday, 4:00pm, MATH3206
Sept 10
Rebecca Herb
 Representation Theory I: What is representation theory?  notes
Sept 17
Steve Kudla
 Representation Theory II:  What does representation
theory have to do with number theory?
Sept 24
 Jonathan Rosenberg
 Representation Theory III:  What does representation
theory have to do with geometry and physics?  abstract
Oct 1

Oct 8

Oct 15
 departmental meeting
Oct 22
 departmental meeting
Oct 29
 Dolgopyat/Freidlin
 Averaging Principle I   abstract
Nov 5
 Math 695 TA seminar meeting
Nov 12
 Dolgopyat/Freidlin
 Averaging Principle II
Nov 19
 Dolgopyat/Freidlin
 Averaging Principle III
Nov 26
 Thanksgiving, no class
Dec 3
 Math 695 TA seminar meeting
Dec 10
 Thomas Wallsten
 Stochastic Models of Judgment and Choice III




Schedule of Minicourses, Spring Semester 2004
Monday, 4 pm Math 3206
Jan 26

Feb 2
 William Goldman What is a Riemann Surface?  I:   From complex manifolds to curves in projective
 space

Feb 9
 William Goldman
 What is a Riemann Surface?  II:  Coordinate systems as dynamical systems
Feb 16
 William Goldman
 What is a Riemann Surface?  III: Moduli spaces: geometry on the space of geometries
Feb 23
 Trivisa
Mar 2
 Trivisa
Mar 9
 Trivisa
Mar 16

Mar 23
 no class - spring break
Mar 30

Apr 6

Apr 13

Apr 20

Apr 27

May 4

Wednesday, 4pm Math 3206
Jan 28

Feb 4
 Dolzmann
Feb 11
 Dolzmann
Feb 18
 Dolzmann
Feb 25

Mar 4

Mar 11

Mar 18

Mar 25
no class - spring break
  
Apr 1

Apr 8

Apr 15

Apr 22
 Slud
Apr 29
 Slud
May 6
 Slud