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Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices

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
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Alan Roche (Oklahoma)
Title: Signs and Self-dual Representations
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
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
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
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
LOGIC SEMINAR
Speaker: John Goodrick, UMCP
Title: More on n-existence and n-uniqueness properties for simple theories
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Matthias Conrad (Emory University)
Title: Experimental Design for Biological Systems
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
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
12:00 noon
MTH 3206
THESIS DEFENSE
Speaker: Stefan Mendez-Diez, UMCP
Title: K-theoretic Aspects of String Dualities
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Yakov Varshavsky (Hebrew U)
Title: On the transfer of Deligne-Lusztig functions
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
3:00 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Ezra Miller (Duke University)
Title: Unfolding Convex Polyhedra
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
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