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Colloquium Seminar Schedule

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


Schedule from 2008-2009

September 26: The spectrum and the number of ends of a complete manifold
Peter Li (University of California, Irvine), pli@math.uci.edu
October 7: A celebration of Sergei Novikov's 70th birthday. Special Event: Note that this is on Tuesday.
See here for details.
October 17: Volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
David Gabai (Princeton University), , gabai@princeton.edu
October 31: From stable curves to higher dimensions
Valery Alexeev (University of Georgia), valery@math.uga.edu
November 07: Some new results on stability of inviscid shear flow
Michael Renardy (Virginia Tech), renardym@math.vt.edu
November 14: Topology Optimization of Structures Aziz Lecture
Gregoire Allaire (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris), gregoire.allaire@polytechnique.fr
January 30: Unipotent orbits at prime exponents
Peter Sarnak (Princeton University)
February 20: Some Generalizations of Classical Problems in Harmonic Analysis and Associated Open Problems Norbert Wiener Lecture
Robert A. Fefferman (University of Chicago), rfefferm@uchicago.edu
February 27: Exploding, Rough and Turbulent Solutions of Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
Jim Colliander (University of Toronto), colliand@math.toronto.edu
March 27: Equidistribution of evolution of curves under geodesic flow
Nimish Shah (Tata Institute), nimish@math.tifr.res.in
April 3: Invariant geometric structures for group actions: measure rigidity and Zimmer program.
A. Katok (Pennsylvania State University), katok_a@math.psu.edu
April 10: Flavors of "bicycle mathematics": tire tracks monodromy, hatchet planimeter, Menzin's conjecture, and oscillation of unicycle tracks
Sergei Tabachnikov (Penn State), tabachni@math.psu.edu
April 24: The global behavior of solutions to critical nonlinear dispersive and wave equations Avron Douglis Lecture
Carlos E. Kenig (University of Chicago), cek@math.uchicago.edu
May 1: The Fast Multipole Method and its Applications Aziz Lecture
Leslie Greengard (Courant Institute, NYU), greengard@cims.nyu.edu
May 8: Magic Squares: Ancient Construction with New Questions Retiree Colloquium
Tina Straley (Executive Director, MAA)


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
Academic Year 2007-2008 Academic Year 2008-2009