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Colloquium Seminar Schedule

Location: Math 3206 -- Tea follows in 3201
Time: 3:00
Day: Friday
Organizer: Thomas Haines, Harry Tamvakis, Konstantina Trivisa


2007-2008 Schedule

September 7: Introduction of new faculty and future of the department
James Yorke (University of Maryland)
September 14: Examples of infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems with growth of energy
Vadim Kaloshin (University of Maryland)
September 21: Non-attracting attractors
Yulij Ilyashenko (Cornell University), yulij@math.cornell.edu
September 28: Escape from a circle and Riemann hypothesis
Leonid Bunimovich (Georgia Institute of Technology), bunimovh@math.gatech.edu
October 12: Subdivision schemes for the refinement of geometric objects
Nira Dyn (Tel-Aviv University), niradyn@math.tau.ac.il
October 19: Harmonic maps and representations of surface groups
Richard Wentworth (Johns Hopkins University), wentworth@jhu.edu
October 26: The Norm Residue is an Isomorphism
Charles Weibel (Rutgers University), weibel@math.rutgers.edu
November 9: Stability and the Yang-Mills flow
Richard Wentworth (Johns Hopkins)
November 16: Adaptive Approximation by Greedy Algorithms AZIZ LECTURE
Albert Cohen (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Paris, France), cohen@ann.jussieu.fr
November 23: No colloquium
(Thanksgiving break)
November 30: Harmonic analysis on reductive p-adic groups
Stephen DeBacker (University of Michigan), smdbackr@umich.edu
December 7: Minimum Cuts and Maximum Area
Gilbert Strang (MIT)
February 8: Ghostbusting: Reviving quantum theories that were thought to be dead
Carl Bender (Washington University in St. Louis)
February 15:   CANCELLED
Roland Glowinski
February 22: Wavelet filter transforms in detail February Fourier Talks; NOTE change in time: 3:30 PM.
Victor Wickerhauser (Washington University in St. Louis), victor@math.wustl.edu
February 29: Stochastic Spatial Models
Richard Durrett (Cornell University), rdt1@cornell.edu
March 7: Modern enumerative geometry
Rahul Pandharipande (Princeton University), rahulp@math.princeton.edu
March 14: Accessibility
Amie Wilkinson (Northwestern)
March 21: No colloquium
(Spring break)
March 28: New materials from mathematics: real and imagined Aziz Lecture
Richard D. James (University of Minnesota), james@umn.edu
March 28: Quasiconformal Geometry of Fractals NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 1 pm
Mario Bonk (University of Michigan)
April 4: Spectral Theory of Hyperbolic Laplacian and Functoriality Principle
Freydoon Shahidi (Purdue)
April 11: Chaos Pearls for the Masses Emeriti Colloquium
James Yorke (University of Maryland), yorke@umd.edu
April 16: From combinatorics to topology via algebraic isoperimetric inequalities
Special Colloquium. NOTE CHANGE IN TIME: 4 pm
Misha Gromov (IHES and Courant Institute)
April 18: The topology of algebraic maps
Mark de Cataldo (SUNY Stonybrook)
April 25: Surface Waves and Images Douglis lecture
Note change of time to 4PM
Joseph B. Keller (Stanford University), keller@math.stanford.edu
May 9: Mathematical and numerical issues in computing material properties
Kaushik Bhattacharya (Caltech)


Previous Schedules

Academic Year 1997-1998 Academic Year 2000-2001
Academic Year 1998-1999 Academic Year 2001-2002
Academic Year 1999-2000 Academic Year 2002-2003
Academic Year 2003-2004 Academic Year 2004-2005
Academic Year 2005-2006 Academic Year 2006-2007