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Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices

MONDAY, 3/17
all day
MTH 3206
BRINFEST DYNAMICS CONFERENCE
speaker 9:30-10:20 D. Burago
title Dynamical Coherence of Partially Hyperbolic Diffeomorphisms of the 3-Torus
speaker 10:50-11:40 F. Dal'Bo
title On the growth of nonuniform lattices in pinched negatively curved manifolds
speaker 1:40-2:30 J. Athreya
title Deviation of ergodic averages for billiards in polygons
speaker 3:00-3:50 R. Spatzier
title Rigidity and Classification of Group Actions
speaker 4:05-4:30 F. Ramirez
title Cohomology of actions on quotients of simple Lie groups.
TUESDAY, 3/18
all day
MTH 3206
BRINFEST DYNAMICS CONFERENCE
speaker 9:30-10:20 W. Ballmann
title Rank One and Rank Rigidity
speaker 10:40-11:30 P. Eberlein
title Riemannian 2-step nilmanifolds with prescribed Ricci tensor
speaker 11:50-12:40 F. Rodriguez Hertz
title New criteria for ergodicity and the Pugh Shub conjecture

THURSDAY, 3/20
all day
MTH 3206
MILLSON BIRTHDAY CONFERENCE
opening (9:15-9:30) Steve Halperin, Dean
speaker (9:30-10:30) Shrawan Kumar
title On Cachazo-Douglas-Witten Conjecture for Simple Lie Algebras
speaker (11:00-12:00) Prakash Belkale
title Generalizations of the Horn and saturation conjectures
speaker (2:00-3:00) Chris Woodward
title Spherical Polygons and knot homology
speaker (3:30-4:30) Edward Richmond
title Recursive Structures in the Cohomology of Flag Varieties
FRIDAY, 3/21
all morning
MTH 3206
MILLSON BIRTHDAY CONFERENCE
speaker (9:30-10:30) Madabusi S. Ragunathan
title On the first Betti Number of hyperbolic manifolds
speaker (11:00-12:00) Jens Funke
title Special cohomology classes arising from the Weil representation.
SATURDAY, 3/22
all day
MTH 3206
MILLSON BIRTHDAY CONFERENCE
speaker (9:15-10:15) Steve Kudla
title Arithmetic cycles on Shimura varieties for unitary groups
speaker (10:45-11:45) Ravi Vakil
title Murphy's law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved moduli spaces
speaker (1:30-2:30) Peter Littelmann
title Superbozonization of invariant matrix ensembles
speaker (3:00-4:00) Roger Howe
title Napoleon's theorem, Pompeiu's Theorem, and the hexagonal wallpaper group.
speaker (4:30-5:30) Andrew Snowden
title The equations of the GIT quotient (P1)n/(GL(2))
SUNDAY, 3/23
all morning
MTH 3206
MILLSON BIRTHDAY CONFERENCE
speaker (9:30-10:30) Ben Howard
title Weight rings in type A and Gelfand Tsetlin patterns
speaker (11:00-12:00) Bill Goldman
title Deforming discrete groups in Lie groups: a personal/historical overview