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Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices 2011-2012

MONDAY, 10/24
3:00 PM
MTH 1313
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Speaker: Tullia Dymarz (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Title: Rigidity and Enveloping Discrete Groups by Locally Compact Groups
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
APPLIED PDE RIT
Speaker: Xuwen Chen, UMCP
Title: The Rigorous Derivation of the 2d Cubic Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation with Anisotropic Switchable Quadratic Traps
TUESDAY, 10/25
1:00 PM
MTH 1308
STUDENT ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Stefan Sabo, UMCP
Title: A Theorem of Varopoulos
2:00 PM
MTH 3206
NORBERT WIENER CENTER SEMINAR
Speaker: Daniel Butts, Department of Biology and Program in
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, UMCP
Title: Characterizing Neuronal "Computation" Underlying Sensory Processing
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
LOGIC SEMINAR
Speaker: Alexei Kolesnikov, Towson University
Title: Objects Witnessing Failure of n-uniqueness
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Annalisa Quaini (University of Houston)
Title: A Fluid-Structure Interaction Model to Simulate Mitral Valve Regurgitant Flow
4:00 PM
MTH 1308
STUDENT DYNAMICS SEMINAR AND RIT
Speaker: Denis Volk, SISSA (Trieste, ITALY)
Title: Skew Products with Interval Fiber
WEDNESDAY, 10/26
12:30 PM
ERF 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR (Note day!)
Speaker: Micha Nixon, Wiezmann Institute of Science
Title: Phase Synchronization of Coupled Lasers in Complex Networks
2:00 PM
CSIC 4122
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Bill Fagan, Department of Biology, UMCP
Title: River Ecology: How Branching Geometry Influences Connectivity, Extinction Risk and Biogeography
2:00 PM
MTH 1308
STUDENT GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Speaker: Andy Sanders, UMCP
Title: Complex Projective Structures on Surfaces: Schwarzian Derivatives to Projective Connections
3:30 PM
MTH 2400
STUDENT STATISTICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Lucas Tcheuko, UMCP
Title: An Empirical ROC Model with Monotonic Likelihood Ratio
4:30 PM
MTH 1308
NON-EQUILIBRIUM INTERFACE AND SURFACE DYNAMICS RIT
Speaker: Ray Phaneuf, Materials Science & Eng., UMCP
Title: Directed Self Assembly and Self-Limiting Behavior during Growth on Nanopatterned GaAs(001)
THURSDAY, 10/27
12:30 PM
ERF 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Ionis Poulakakis, University of Delaware
Title: Robot Running and Springs: Feedback Control Synthesis Harnessing Compliance
3:30 PM
MTH 1311
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
Speaker: Nikita Selinger (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Title: The Proof of Pilgrim's Conjecture
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
Speaker: Aynur Bulut, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study
Title: The defocusing cubic nonlinear wave equation in the energy-supercritical regime
FRIDAY, 10/28
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
LEARNING SEMINAR ON P-ADIC HODGE THEORY
Speaker: Tom Haines, UMCP
Title: Tate's paper on p-divisible groups, V
3:15 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Ezra Getzler (Northwestern University)
Title: A Filtration of Open/Closed Topological Field Theory