Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices
    
       
    
    
 | MONDAY, 3/14         |  
10:00 AM      MTH 1310     |   THESIS DEFENSE
   Speaker: Joseph R. Galante, UMCP 
   Title:  Cometary Escape in the Restricted Circular Planar Three Body Problem
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2:15 PM      MTH 1310     |   THESIS DEFENSE
   Speaker: Vincent N. Guingona, UMCP
   Title:  On Definability of Types in Dependent Theories
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3:00 PM      MTH 1313     |    GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Pierre Py (University of Chicago)         
   Title:  Kähler groups, real hyperbolic spaces and  the Cremona group
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3:00 PM      MTH 1311     |    APPLIED PDE RIT
   Speaker:  Xuwen Chen, UMCP                 
   Title:  Uniqueness of Solutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii Hierarchy with a Quadratic Trap
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 | TUESDAY, 3/15         |  
| 2:00 PM  |   NORBERT WIENER CENTER SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Volkan Cevher (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Rice University)
   Title: Compressible priors for high-dimensional statistics
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3:30 PM      MTH 3206     |    NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Prof. Alina Chertock (North Carolina State University)
   Title:   Sinking, merging and stationary plumes in a coupled hemotaxis-fluid model: a high-resolution numerical approach
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4:00 PM      MTH 1308     |    STUDENT DYNAMICS SEMINAR AND RIT
   Speaker:  David Aulicino, UMCP
   Title:   Progress Toward Classifying Teichmüller Disks in the Rank One Locus
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 | WEDNESDAY, 3/16         |  
2:00 PM      CSIC 4122    |    CSCAMM SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Prof. Maria Lukacova, Institute of Mathematics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
   Title:   Large time step FVEG schemes for shallow water flows 
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2:00 PM      MTH 1311     |    LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
   Speaker:   Jeffrey Adams, UMCP
   Title:  Nilpotent Orbits, II
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3:00 PM      MTH 1308     |    STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS: MODELS,  ANALYSIS, AND NUMERICS (RIT)
   Speaker:  Maria Cameron, UMCP
   Title:  Transitions between metastable states in gradient systems. Continuous-time Markov chains.  Transition Path Theory. 
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4:00 PM      MTH 1311     |    GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS RIT
   Speaker:  Jonathan Rosenberg, UMCP
   Title:  A TQFT connected to Ray-Singer torsion (after Albert Schwarz)
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 | THURSDAY, 3/17         |  
12:15 PM     ERF 1207     |    APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Prof. Daniel Blair, Georgetown University, Dept. of Physics
   Title:   How Size and Cyclic Shear Determine the  Strength of Soft Materials
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3:30 PM      MTH 1308     |    DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Cheng Chong-Qing (Nanjing University)
   Title:   Regularity of weak KAM and Arnold diffusion in an a priori stable system with 3 degrees of freedom
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3:30 PM      MTH 3206     |    PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Hantaek Bae, CSCAMM -- UMCP
   Title:   Regularity of unforced dissipative equations on the whole spaces.
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3:30 PM      MTH 1313     |    STATISTICS SEMINAR
   Speaker:  Prof. Armand Makowski, Dept. of Electrical  and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
   Title:  Recent results for random key graphs: Connectivity, triangles, etc.
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 | FRIDAY, 3/18         |  
3:00 PM      MTH 3206
 |    MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM 
   Speaker:  Richard Falk (Rutgers University)
   Title:   Finite Element Exterior Calculus
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