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Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices 2011-2012

MONDAY, 11/14
1:00 PM
CSIC 4122
AMSC STUDENT SEMINAR
Speaker: Karl Schmitt, UMCP
Title: A network approach to the orientation problem in genome assembly
Speaker: Joyce Hsiao, UMCP
Title: Base calling in second-generation sequencing data: normalization, filtering, and quality
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Daniele Rosso (Chicago)
Title: Classic and mirabolic RSK correspondence for partial flags
3:00 PM
MTH 1313
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Speaker: Jason Behrstock (City University of New York)
Title: Quasi-isometric classification of 3-manifold groups
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
APPLIED PDE RIT
Speaker: D. Zi, UMCP
Title: Newton's Polynomial
TUESDAY, 11/15
1:00 PM
MTH 1308
STUDENT ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Adam Lizzi, UMCP
Title: LLL Reduction
2:00 PM
MTH 3206
NORBERT WIENER CENTER SEMINAR
Speaker: Arpad Benyi (Western Washington University)
Title: Anisotropic Classes of Pseudodifferential Symbols
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Hanan Samet (Computer Science, UMCP)
Title: Sorting in Space
4:00 PM
MTH 1308
STUDENT DYNAMICS SEMINAR AND RIT
Speaker: Juan Sabuco, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Title: Partial control of chaotic systems
4:00 PM
PHY 1412
Reception,
3:00 PM
MTH rotunda
17th annual SHIH-I PAI LECTURE
Speaker: Andreas Acrivos, Stanford University and Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus, CUNY
Title: The Rheology of concentrated suspensions of non-Brownian particles;
a historical survey of some recent variations on a theme by Albert Einstein
WEDNESDAY, 11/16
2:00 PM
CSIC 4122
CSCAMM SEMINAR (Live Webcast)
Speaker: Dr. Clemens Heitzinger, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
Title: PDE models for nanowire bio- and gas sensors including stochastic effects
2:00 PM
MTH 1308
STUDENT GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Speaker: Greg Laun, UMCP
Title: The Proof of Margulis' Opposite Sign Lemma
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Maxim Arap, Johns Hopkins
Title: Tautological rings of Jacobians of curves
3:15 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Tien-Yien Li (Michigan State University)
Title: Mixed Volume Computation and Solving Polynomial Systems
3:305 PM
MTH 1310
AMSC PH.D. DEFENSE
Speaker: Guoyuan Liu, UMCP
Title: Modeling Vix and Vix Derivatives with Mean Reverting Processes and Parameter Estimation Using Filter Methods
3:30 PM
MTH 2400
STUDENT STATISTICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Yue Tian, UMCP
Title: Functional Shape Analysis of Movie Success in Subsequent Sales Channel
4:30 PM
MTH 1308
NON-EQUILIBRIUM INTERFACE AND SURFACE DYNAMICS RIT
Speaker: Ted Einstein or Micah Hawkins, Physics, UMCP
Title: Fluctuations of Zigzag Steps
THURSDAY, 11/17
12:15 PM
ERF 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Laura Waller, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Nonlinear Dynamics for Optical Imaging
2:00 PM (note time and room!)
MTH 1308
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
Speaker: David Aulicino, UMCP
Title: Classifying Teichmüller Disks with Completely Degenerate Kontsevich-Zorich Spectrum
4:00 PM
PHY 1412
DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR-TEACHER LECTURE SERIES
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Washington, UMCP
Title: Cannonballs, Donuts and Secrets: From Idle Questions to Cryptographic Applications
6:30 PM
1781 Church
St, NW, DC
MAA DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Speaker: Dr. Jim Yorke, UMCP
Title: The Many Aspects of Chaos
FRIDAY, 11/18
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
LEARNING SEMINAR ON P-ADIC HODGE THEORY
Speaker: Arijit Sehanobish, UMCP
Title: Theorem of Tate-Sen-Ax, III