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Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices

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
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Richard Wentworth (Johns Hopkins University):
TBA
4:00 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS GRADUATE MINICOURSE SERIES
John Osborn:
The Generalized Finite Element Method and Meshless Methods I
TUESDAY, 11/16
2:00 PM
MTH 0102
LOGIC SEMINAR
Chris Shaw:
Orthogonality and Domination
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
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
12:30 PM
MTH 0302
SPOTLIGHT ON GRADUATE RESEARCH
Joanna Pressley:
A Neuronal Phenomenon Analyzed
1:00 PM
MTH 0302

John Harlim:
Generating Initial Conditions for Weather Forecasting
1:30 PM
MTH 0302

Yong-Ju Lee:
Complete Affine Structures in the Heisenberg Manifold
2:00 PM
CSIC 4122
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Corey O'Hern, Mechanical Engineering and Physics, Yale University:
Topological Classification of Jammed States
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
3:00 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS GRADUATE MINICOURSE SERIES
Rich Schwartz:
Large Scale Geometry of Infinite Groups III
THURSDAY, 11/18
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
DYNAMICS SEMINAR
James Propp, University of Wisconsin):
When algebraic entropy vanishes
2:00 PM
MTH 0102
LOGIC SEMINAR
Gregory Johnson:
Domination and Weight
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
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
FRIDAY, 11/19
12:00 PM
MTH 0302
SPOTLIGHT ON GRADUATE RESEARCH
Yupei Xiong:
Minimum Labeling Spanning Tree Problem
12:30 PM
MTH 0302

Elisha Peterson:
Spin Networks and SL(2, C) Representations
3:00 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM (AZIZ LECTURE)
Michael Vogelius (Rutgers University):
Electromagnetic Imaging for small inhomogeneities