Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices
    
       
    
    
 | MONDAY, 11/17        |  
3:00 PM      MTH 1311     |  GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska (Boise State and NSF):  Turaev-Viro invariants of 3-manifolds and normal
       surfaces
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4:00 PM      MTH 3206     |  SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES
  James Yorke:  Almost every observation:  a mathematical theory of
       measurement
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 | TUESDAY, 11/18        |  
3:00 PM      MTH 1308     |  SPOTLIGHT ON GRADUATE RESEARCH: Three Talks
  Andrey Rukhin:  On the Generalized Tower of Hanoi Problem:
       an Introduction to Cluster Spaces
  Brandy Rapatski:  Modeling the Population Dynamics of HIV
  Jarad Schofer:  Hilbert Modular Forms and their Restrictions to
       Curves
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3:30 PM      MTH 3206     |  NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
  Mario Ohlberger (IAM, Universitt Freiburg, Germany):  Error estimates for finite volume approximations of
       non-linear conservation laws on bounded domains
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3:30 PM      MTH 1313     |  SPECIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR
  Prof. Alexander Wentzell, Tulane University:  Small Perturbations of a Dynamical System with Conservation Laws
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 | WEDNESDAY, 11/19        |  
2:00 PM      CSIC 4122    |  CSCAMM SEMINAR
  Martin Meier-Schellersheim, National Institute of
         Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH:  Current Challenges in Computational Cell Biology
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4:00 PM      MTH 3206     |  MATHEMATICS GRADUATE MINICOURSE SERIES
  Dmitri Dolgopyat:  Averaging Principle III
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4:00 PM      MTH 1308     |  SPOTLIGHT ON GRADUATE RESEARCH: Three Talks
  Angela Grant:  Optimizing Performance functions on Orbits of
       Chaotic Systems
  Ryan Lance:  Reconstructing the Dynamics of Network Traffic
  Huaizhong Ren:  Autonomous Stochastic Perturbations of Hamiltonian
       Systems
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 | THURSDAY, 11/20        |  
12:15 PM     1207
Energy      Res. Bldg.   |  APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
  Masahiro Toiya:  Oscillatory granular shear flow
  Daniel Lanterman, UMD:  Effects of long chain polymers on dissipation
       scale turbulence statistics
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2:00 PM      MTH 1311     |  DYNAMICS SEMINAR
  Joe Auslander (University of Maryland):  Weapons of math construction
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3:30 PM      MTH 3206     |  PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
  Robin Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst:  The vacuum in isentropic gas dynamics
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3:45 PM      MTH 1313     |  STATISTICS SEMINAR - Please note time change!
  Prof. Armand M. Makowski, Dept. of Electrical and
         Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems
         Research, Univ. of Maryland:  The output of a cache under the independent
       reference model: Where did the locality of reference
       go?
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4:30 PM      MTH 1308     |  SPOTLIGHT ON GRADUATE RESEARCH-Two Talks
  J. T. Halbert:  The Dynamics of a Taffy-Pulling
       Machine
  Suzanne Sindi:  Power Law Distribution in the Repeat Structure of a
       Genome
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 | FRIDAY, 11/21        |  
3:00 PM      MTH 3206     |  MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
  Professor Mark Freidlin (UMCP), Department of
         Mathematics: Large deviations and wavefronts in 
reaction-diffusion equations:  some work of Tzong -Yow Lee
 This colloquium is in memory of our colleague,
       Prof. T. Y. Lee
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