Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices 2011-2012
| MONDAY, 12/12 |
2:00 PM
MTH 1311 | ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR joint with GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Speaker: Yuri Burda (University of Toronto)
Title: Topological essential dimension of coverings and Klein's resolvent problem
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5:00 PM
MTH 3206 | DIRECTED READING PROGRAM TALKS
series of 15-minute math talks by undergraduates
on independent reading projects,
mentored one-on-one by
graduate students in MATH, AMSC and STAT.
All are welcome; refreshments will be provided.
Speakers: Joel Pruitt (Scott Schmieding), Darwin Romero (Bryant Angelos), Douglas Ulrich (Richard Rast),
Rohan Bhall (Rodrigo Trevino), Kalkidan Lebeta (Wei-hsuan Yu), Alicia Stafford (Lucia Simonelli)
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| TUESDAY, 12/13 |
10:00 AM
MTH 1310 | MATH PH.D. THESIS DEFENSE
Speaker: Sean Rostami, UMCP
Title: Kottwitz's nearby cycles conjecture for a class of unitary Shimura varieties
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3:00 PM
MTH 1311 | LOGIC SEMINAR
Speaker: Chris Laskowski, UMCP
Title: The Lay of the Land: Shelah's Taxonomy of Theories
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3:30 PM
MTH 3206 | NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Claude J. Gittelson, Purdue University
Title: Multilevel, Sparse Tensor and Adaptive Discretizations of Random Elliptic PDE
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5:00 PM
MTH 3206 | DIRECTED READING PROGRAM TALKS
series of 15-minute math talks by undergraduates
on independent reading projects,
mentored one-on-one by
graduate students in MATH, AMSC and STAT.
All are welcome; refreshments will be provided.
Speakers: Sean Murphy (Dave Shaw), Eisha Nathan (Dave Karpuk), Logan Crew (Jonathan Cohen),
Jada Johnson (Mickey Salins), Michael Thomas (Kanna Nakamura), Guillaume Cheron (Tim Mercure)
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| WEDNESDAY, 12/14 |
12:00 PM
MTH 1313 | MATH PH.D. THESIS DEFENSE
Speaker: Jeff Frazier, UMCP
Title: Length Spectral Rigidity of Nonpositively Curved Surfaces
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1:00 PM
MTH 1310 | AMSC PH.D. THESIS DEFENSE
Speaker: Christopher W. Miller, UMCP
Title: Fast Algorithms for the Solution of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
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2:00 PM
MTH 1311 | ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Zinovy Reichstein, University of British Columbia
Title: Cayley groups
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| THURSDAY, 12/15 |
12:30 PM
ERF 1207 | APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Carlo R. Liang, Massey University, New Zealand
Title: Chimera States in Heterogeneous Kuramoto Networks
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| FRIDAY, 12/16 |
2:00 PM
VMH 4335 | AMSC PH.D. THESIS DEFENSE
Speaker: Sean Barnes, UMCP
Title: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Reducing
Pathogenic Transmission in Medical Facilities and Community Populations
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| MONDAY, 12/19 |
| TUESDAY, 12/20 |
| WEDNESDAY, 12/21 |
11:30 AM
MTH 1311 | LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
cancelled, postponed to spring semester
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