| MONDAY, 5/3          | 
12:00 noon    MTH 3206    |    CONCERT
   Performers: Adelphi String Quartet
   Program:
   Franz Schubert: String Quartet in C minor, D. 703 ("Quartettsatz")
   Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
   Alexander Glazunov: Novelette, Op. 15, IV
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2:00 PM      MTH 1311     |    LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Alan Roche (Oklahoma)
   Title:  Signs and Self-dual Representations
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3:00 PM      MTH 1313     |    GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR                               
   Speaker:  Ser Peow Tan (National University of Singapore)
   Title: Dynamics of the Out(F2) action on the SL(2,C) character variety of F2
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 | TUESDAY, 5/4          | 
1:30 PM      MTH 3206     |    RIT ON QUANTUM INFORMATION
   Speaker: Himanshu Tyagi, Electr. Eng., UMCP
   Title: Teleportation and dense coding schemes correspond to
the same mathematical objects
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2:00 PM      MTH 1311     |    NORBERT WIENER CENTER SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Radu Balan (CSCAMM at UMCP)
   Title:  The non-commutative Wiener lemma and applications to  distributed control of large-scale systems
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3:00 PM      MTH 1311     |    LOGIC SEMINAR
   Speaker:  John Goodrick, UMCP   
   Title:  More on n-existence and n-uniqueness properties for simple theories
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3:30 PM      MTH 3206     |    NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Dr. Matthias Conrad (Emory University)
   Title:  Experimental Design for Biological Systems
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3:30 PM      MTH 1308     |    STUDENT DYNAMICS SEMINAR AND RIT
   Speaker:  Yu-Ru Huang, UMCP
   Title:  Construction of absolutely continuous invariant measures for quadratic maps
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 | WEDNESDAY, 5/5          | 
10:00 AM     MTH 1310     |    THESIS DEFENSE
   Speaker: Cecilia Gonzalez-Tokman, UMCP
   Title:  Quantitative Aspects of the Stability of Some Dynamical Systems
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12:00 noon  MTH 3206     |    THESIS DEFENSE
   Speaker: Stefan Mendez-Diez, UMCP
   Title:  K-theoretic Aspects of String Dualities
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2:00 PM      MTH 1311
 |    LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR     
   Speaker: Yakov Varshavsky (Hebrew U)
   Title:  On the transfer of Deligne-Lusztig functions
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2:00 PM      CSIC 4122    |    CSCAMM SEMINAR
   Speaker:   Prof Sennur Ulukus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMCP
   Title:  Securing Wireless Communications in the Physical  Layer using Signal Processing                           
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2:00 PM      MTH 2400   |   STUDENT ANALYSIS/PDE/PROBABILITY SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Enrico Au-Yeung, UMCP
   Title:  Harmonic Functions Theory: what every young analyst has forgotten
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 | THURSDAY, 5/6          | 
12:10 PM     MTH 3206 |    STOCHASTICS AND DYNAMICS CONFERENCE
  Small perturbations of dynamical systems
  12:10-1:00 Speaker: M. Freidlin, UMCP 
  Title: Perturbation theory for systems with many invariant measures
  3:00-3:50 Speaker: A. Wentzell 
  Title: The Neumann problem for second order PDE’s
with a small parameter and corresponding diffusion processes
  4:10-5:00 Speaker: Yu. Bakhtin 
  Title: Scaling limits for exit distributions
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12:15 PM     1207        Energy      Res. Bldg.   |    APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
   Speaker: Juan G. Restrepo, Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado
   Title:  The Role of Network Topology in the Dynamic  Range of Excitable Systems                            
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3:30 PM      MTH 1308     |    PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
   Speaker: Robert M. Kerr, University of Warwick
   Title:  Exploring necessary conditions for Euler singularities using vortex dynamics
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3:30 PM      MTH 1313     |    STATISTICS SEMINAR
   Speaker:   Dr. Yaakov Malinovsky, NICHD, Rockville
   Title:  Prediction of Ordered Random Effects in a Simple Small Area Model
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 | FRIDAY, 5/7          | 
9:30 AM      CSIC 4122  |    GRADUATION CONFERENCE
  Short Talks by Graduating Students
    9:30 AM Speaker: Kevin Wilson
  Title: A Tannakian Description for Parahoric Bruhat-Tits Group Schemes
    10:00 AM Speaker: Walter Ray-Dulany
  Title: The Fundamental Lemma for the Iawahori-Hecke Algebra of GL2 Over Any Local Field
    10:30 AM Speaker: Ziliang Li
  Title: Minimum Disparity Estimation for Continuous Models with Dependent Data
    11:00 AM Speaker: Cecilia Gonzalez-Tokman
  Title: Finite State Markov Chains and Metastable Systems
    11:30 AM Speaker: Damon Gulczynski
  Title: An integer Programming-based Heuristic for the Period Vehicle
Routing Problem
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9:30 AM     MTH 3206 |    STOCHASTICS AND DYNAMICS CONFERENCE
   Homogenization of PDEs
 
9:30-10:20 Speaker: G. Bal 
  Title:  Equations with random coefficients: Convergence to deterministic or stochastic limits and theory of correctors
  10:40-11:30 Speaker: L. Ryzhik 
  Title: The weak coupling limit for the solutions of
the Schroedinger equation
  11:50-12:40 Speaker: J. Nolen 
  Title: Homogenization of a level-set equation in random media
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12:00 noon      MTH rotunda |    GRADUATION CONFERENCE
  Poster Display
  Paul Koprowski, An Introduction to Quantum Games
  Dave Shaw, Statistical Methods in Video Analysis
  Lucas Vaczlavik, Computational Methods for Game Options
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1:00 PM      CSIC 4122  |    GRADUATION CONFERENCE
  Short Talks by Graduating Students
    1:00 PM Speaker: Charles Glover
  Title: Computationally Tractable Stochastic integer Programming
Models for Air Traffic Flow Management
    1:30 PM Speaker: Stefan Mendez-Diez
  Title: K-Theoretic Aspects of String Duality
  2:00 PM Panel Discussion: Jobs in Mathematics
  Panelists: Katherine Gurski (Howard Univ.), Karin Melnick (UMCP),
Chris Shaw (UMCP)
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2:00 PM      MTH 1311     |    LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR  (Note Day)
   Speaker: Yakov Varshavsky (Hebrew U) 
   Title:  Towards a global Langlands correspondence over function fields
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3:00 PM      MTH 3206     |    MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM     
   Speaker:  Ezra Miller (Duke University)
   Title: Unfolding Convex Polyhedra
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 | SATURDAY, 5/8  | 
9:30 AM     MTH 3206 |    STOCHASTICS AND DYNAMICS CONFERENCE
   Polymers
 
9:30-10:20 K. Alexander 
  Title: Disordered-polymer depinning transitions: An overview
 
10:40-11:30 M. Cranston 
  Title: Some results on polymers, phase transitions, overlaps
 
11:50-12:40 K. Khanin 
  Title: Intermediate Disorder for Directed Polymers in Dimension 1+1
 
12:40-3:00 lunch and informal discussions
 
3:00-3:50 S. Molchanov 
  Title: Asymptotic Properties of Random Schrödinger
Operators in the presence of Lipschitz tails
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 | SUNDAY, 5/9 | 
9:30 AM     MTH 3206 |    STOCHASTICS AND DYNAMICS CONFERENCE
  
9:30-10:20 D. Dolgopyat 
  Title: Averaging theory for systems with quasiperiodic
fast motion
 
10:40-11:30 J. Mattingly
  Title: TBA
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