| MONDAY, 11/15        | 
12:00 PM     MTH 0302     | 
SPOTLIGHT ON
GRADUATE RESEARCH 
Ben Howard:    The Geometry of Weight Polytopes for SL(n)/P 
Zhihui Yang:  Exit Problem and Stochastic Resonance for a Class of
       Random Perturbations
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3:00 PM      MTH 1311     |  GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
  Richard Wentworth (Johns Hopkins University):  TBA
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4:00 PM      MTH 3206     |  MATHEMATICS GRADUATE MINICOURSE SERIES
  John Osborn:  The Generalized Finite Element Method and Meshless
       Methods I
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 | TUESDAY, 11/16        | 
2:00 PM      MTH 0102
 |  LOGIC SEMINAR
  Chris Shaw:  Orthogonality and Domination
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3:30 PM      MTH 3206     |  JOINT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/CSCAMM SEMINAR
  Prof. Weizhu Bao (Department of Computational
         Science), National University of Singapore:  Efficient and stable numerical methods for the
       generalized and vector Zakharov system
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 | WEDNESDAY, 11:30 AM     | 
11:30 AM     MTH 3206
 |  Followed by Pizza in the Lounge (Room 3201)
  PREPARING FOR LIFE AFTER GRADUATE SCHOOL: PANEL DISCUSSION
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12:30 PM     MTH 0302     |  SPOTLIGHT ON GRADUATE RESEARCH
   Joanna Pressley:   A Neuronal Phenomenon Analyzed
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1:00 PM      MTH 0302     |    John Harlim:  Generating Initial Conditions for Weather
       Forecasting
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1:30 PM      MTH 0302     |    Yong-Ju Lee:  Complete Affine Structures in the Heisenberg
       Manifold
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2:00 PM      CSIC 4122    |  CSCAMM SEMINAR
  Corey O'Hern, Mechanical Engineering and Physics,
        Yale University:  Topological Classification of Jammed States
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2:00 PM      MTH 1311     |  LIE GROUP AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
  Fokko du Cloux (Lyons and MIT):  Structure theory of real groups by computer
  | 
3:00 PM      MTH 1311     |  ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
  Jarad Schofer (UMD):  Borcherds Forms and Generalizations of Singular
       Moduli
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3:00 PM      MTH 3206     |  MATHEMATICS GRADUATE MINICOURSE SERIES
  Rich Schwartz:  Large Scale Geometry of Infinite Groups III
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 | THURSDAY, 11/18        | 
2:00 PM      MTH 1311
 |  DYNAMICS SEMINAR
  James Propp, University of Wisconsin):  When algebraic entropy vanishes
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2:00 PM      MTH 0102     |  LOGIC SEMINAR
  Gregory Johnson:  Domination and Weight
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3:30 PM      MTH 3206     |  JOINT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS-PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
  Professor Michael Vogelius (Rutgers University):  Non-linear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems Related
       to Corrosion Modeling
       
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3:30 PM      MTH 1313     |  STATISTICS SEMINAR
  Jian-Lun Xu, Biometry Research Group National
         Cancer Institute:  Estimating the Cumulative Risk of a False-Positive
       Test in a Repeated Screening Program
       
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 | FRIDAY, 11/19        | 
12:00 PM     MTH 0302
 |  SPOTLIGHT ON GRADUATE RESEARCH
  Yupei Xiong:  Minimum Labeling Spanning Tree Problem
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12:30 PM     MTH 0302     |    Elisha Peterson:  Spin Networks and SL(2, C) Representations
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3:00 PM      MTH 3206     |  MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM (AZIZ LECTURE)
  Michael Vogelius (Rutgers University):  Electromagnetic Imaging for small inhomogeneities
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