Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices
    
       
    
    
 | MONDAY, 2/21         |  
3:00 PM     
  |  GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR (Two talks in MTH 1311)
  Slava Kruskal (University of Virginia):  Quantum topology
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4:15 PM     
  |    Chris Leininger (Columbia University):  Graphs of Veech Groups
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4:00 PM      MTH 3206     |  MATHEMATICS GRADUATE MINICOURSE SERIES
  Tom Haines:  What is a p-adic group III
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 | TUESDAY, 2/22         |  
3:30 PM      MTH 3206     |  NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
  Dr. Soeren Bartels (Depart. of Mathematics, UMCP
         and Humbold University (Germany):  Approximation of Harmonic Maps -- Gradient Flow
       Approaches vs. Iterative Minimization
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 | WEDNESDAY, 2/23         |  
2:00 PM      CSIC 4122    |  CSCAMM SEMINAR 
  Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute of
         Mathematical Sciences:  Metastability in complex systems
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2:00 PM      MTH 1311     |  LIE GROUP AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
  Tatiana Howard (UMCP):  Hecke Algebras for Non-Linear Groups
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3:00 PM      MTH 1308     |  STUDENT GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
  Robert Delgado:  Investigating the existence of affine structures on
       2 manifolds via the Euler Class
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4:00 PM      MTH 3206     |  MATHEMATICS GRADUATE MINICOURSE SERIES
  Marcus Calhoun-Lopez:  Computer Programming for Mathematicians: Is There
       Anything Besides Matlab? II
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 | THURSDAY, 2/24         |  
12:15 PM     1207        Energy      Res. Bldg.   |  APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR -- Two Twenty-Minute Talks
  Ben Shapiro, Aerospace Engineering and ISR, UMD:  Steering Particles by Micro Flow Control
      
  Masahiro Toiya:  Rock Penetration through a Granular Pile
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2:00 PM      MTH 1311     |  DYNAMICS SEMINAR
  Tomasz Downarowicz, University of Technology,
         Poland):   Faces of simplices of invariant measures
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3:30 PM      MTH 3206     |  PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
  Cleopatra Christoforou  (Northwestern University):  TBA
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3:30 PM      MTH 1313     |  STATISTICS SEMINAR
  Gang Zheng, (NIH/NHLBI):  "Robust tests and two robust criteria using
         Kullback-Leibler information: with applications to  
         genetic linkage and association studies"
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 | FRIDAY, 2/25         |  
3:00 PM      MTH 3206     |  MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
 (Fourth in the Series Mathematics and Biology)
  Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh):  "Learning Synchrony Oscillations and spike-time
        dependent plasticity"
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