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Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices 2011-2012

MONDAY, 11/28
3:00 PM
MTH 3206
STATISTICS SEMINAR Note special day and time
Speaker: Yuan Liao (Princeton Univ.)
Title: Theory and Applications of Ultra High Dimensional Variable Selection
4:00 PM
MTH 1313
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR Note special time
Speaker: Daniel Mathews (Boston College)
Title: Hyperbolic cone-manifolds with prescribed holonomy
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
APPLIED PDE RIT
Speaker: Ioannis Markou, UMCP
Title: Hypocoercivity
TUESDAY, 11/29
12:30PM
CSIC 4122
AMSC STUDENT SEMINAR (CSCAMM Seminar Room)
Speaker: Changhui Tan (UMCP)
Title: Spectral dynamics and critical thresholds for nonlinear conservation laws
Speaker: Wei Guo (UMCP)
Title: Estimating functional agent-based models: An application to bid shading in online markets format
1:00PM
MTH 1308
STUDENT ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Jon Cohen (UMCP)
Title: Higher Composition Laws
2:00 PM
MTH 3206
NORBERT WIENER CENTER SEMINAR
Speaker: Stephen Casey (American University)
Title: Adaptive Signal Processing
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Jorg Frauendiener (Univ. of Otago, New Zealand)
Title: Exploring the corner: Numerical relativity near space-like infinity
4:00 PM
MTH 1308
STUDENT DYNAMICS SEMINAR AND RIT
Speaker: Barney Bramhan (Institute of Advanced Study)
Title: TBA
WEDNESDAY, 11/30
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Jeffrey Adams, UMCP
Title: Hermitian Representations
2:00 PM
MTH 1313
PROBABILITY SEMINAR
Speaker: B. Rozovsky (Brown University)
Title: On Unbiased Perturbations of Navier-Stoker Equations
4:00 PM
CSIC 2117
CSCAMM SEMINAR Note special time and location
Speaker: Stéphane Mallat (École Polytechnique)
Title: Classification with Stable and Informative Invariants
4:15 PM
MTH 1308
NON-EQUILIBRIUM INTERFACE AND SURFACE DYNAMICS RIT
Speaker: John Weeks, Chemistry & IPST, UMD
Title: Impurities on stepped surfaces
THURSDAY, 12/1
9:00 AM
MTH 1310
MATH THESIS DEFENSE
Speaker: Yu-Ru Huang, UMCP
Title: Measure of Parameters with a.c.i.m. Nonadjacent to the Chebyshev Value in the Quadratic Family
1230 PM
ERF 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Nicholas Ouellette, Yale University, Mechanical Engineering
Title: Linking Structures and Dynamics in Weak Turbulence
3:30 PM
MTH 1311
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR (joint with GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR)
Speaker: Barney Bramham (Institute for Advanced Study)
Title: Approximating Hamiltonian systems by integrable systems using pseudo-holomorphic curves
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR and AZIZ LECTURE
Speaker: Jinchao Xu (Pennsylvania State Univ)
Title: Using Divergent Elements to Precondition Convergent Elements
3:30PM
MTH 1313
STATISTICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Grace Yang (UMCP)
Title: Neyman, Markov Processes and Survival Analysis
FRIDAY, 12/2
3:15 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM and AZIZ LECTURE Note day!
Speaker: Jinchao Xu (Pennsylvania State University)
Title: Optimal and Practical Algebraic Solvers for Discretized PDEs